The Early Renaissance and Vernacular Culture

by Charles Dempsey

Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissance--a celebration of classical antiquity--also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Upending conventional interpretations of this well-studied period, Charles Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content, once seen as the paradox of the Renaissance, can be better understood as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674049527
• ISBN13: 9780674049529
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.0"