Renaissance Florence: The Invention of a New Art (Trade Version)

by A. Richard Turner

Book Overview

This text offers an incisive account of 14th and 15th-century Florentine art in its social, cultural, political, geographic, economic and religious settings. It ranges from monumental and public... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810927365
• ISBN13: 9780810927360
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic for Florence

Renaissance Florence by Turner is an absolute must for Florence. The book has a plethora of information that will enhance anyone's trip to the city.

Beautiful book!

The book is very well done. The photographs are of high quality; the coverage complete. I purchased the volume as background information for an art history survey course I'm enrolled in (I already hold a post-grad degree), and found it to be an excellent supplement to the cursory review my textbook offered.

Explaining Florence

As an art lover and architect, who has been reading extensivelly about Italy and spent three weeks exploring the city, I define this book as comprehensive, delicious to read and excellent in contents. Turner explains how the city has achieved such a moment in human civilization, not only by its art, but by its economics, technology, geography, historic context, social behavior. This book is one to fall in love with, and I would put it as a must read together with Kenneth Clark's Civilization.