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MediaDB / «Ugly Renaissance "Alexander Lee: download fb2, read online
About the book: 2018 / Oxford University teacher Alexander Lee offers a new look at the Renaissance: no matter how tempting it may be to consider it an era of cultural revival and progress, prosperity and artistic beauty, the achievements of the Renaissance have always existed in parallel with a dark, dirty reality. Treacherous bankers, greedy politicians, lustful priests, monstrous epidemics, life in unimaginable luxury and debauchery - all this was the norm. The magnificent monuments of the Renaissance were not only the fruit of high ideals, but were created by sometimes tortured artists who lived in a world of inequality, bigotry and hatred. This book is a journey through Italy's amazingly controversial past, a past without which we would not have the opportunity today to admire Renaissance masterpieces in museums around the world..