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' ... In some respects, Battisti's text anticipates the current trend for popular history ... Battisti ... was an authoritative scholar of the Renaissance, and although this is an academic work in many respects, his enthusiasm for the material shines through ...
This book is saturated with fascinating detail and anecdote, from Brunelleschi's architectural model of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore made from the a turnip, to the details of the ageing masters tax return ... However, it is also full of very serious research and hard historical information. On the one hand the book is aspiring to academic comprehensiveness, but is at its best when it uses its staggering scholarship to illuminate the events and machinations that led to the explosion of culture in quattrocentor Florence. ...
This book is saturated with fascinating detail and anecdote, from Brunelleschi's architectural model of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore made from the a turnip, to the details of the ageing masters tax return ... However, it is also full of very serious research and hard historical information. On the one hand the book is aspiring to academic comprehensiveness, but is at its best when it uses its staggering scholarship to illuminate the events and machinations that led to the explosion of culture in quattrocentor Florence. ...
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- PublisherPhaidon Press
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1904313124
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