{"product_id":"the-art-of-florence-2-volumes-9780896601116","title":"The Art of Florence 2 volumes","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the radiant years of the Renaissance  the city of Florence has come for many to represent the greatest triumph of the Western cultural tradition. This is the city where humanism was born  where Plato was discussed passionately in the narrow streets  and where men and women first found themselves to be the measure of all things. For more than three centuries Florence nurtured a creative community of astounding  even revolutionary genius. Here  starting in the late 1200s  Giotto painted the grave and powerful frescoes that drew Florence and the world toward a radical new vision of realism  and here  ushering in the dazzling era of the High Renaissance  Michelangelo began his incomparable career as architect  sculptor  and painter. During the intervening years  Brunelleschi  Donatello  Ghiberti  Fra Angelico  Botticelli  Raphael  Leonardo  and hundreds of the most splendidly talented artists in history lived and worked in this small city on the Arno and collaborated in the creation of the great urban museum we know as Florence. Matching an elegant and sophisticated text by three leading art historians with hundreds of glorious color photographs  The Art of Florence immerses us in a city and a time of unparalleled cultural ferment. This important and uncommonly beautiful publication analyzes the history of Florentine art in terms of the distinctly Florentine and Tuscan influences that shaped itan approach never before employed in a study of this breadth and complexity. The fascinating and lucid text by Glenn Andres  John Hunisak  and Richard Turner gracefully links Florentine architecture  sculpture  and painting to the rich social fabric and the dramatic political life of the city. Woven into this compelling history is the most luxurious and comprehensive visual documentation available of Florences unrivaled treasures. More than 700 color images and another 854 duotones and architectural drawings have been reproduced with a meticulous care worthy of the Renaissance craft tradition. Joining visual beauty with intellectual rigor in a fashion that truly invokes the spirit of this great city  The Art of Florence presents as rich a vision of human creativity as we can find anywhere outside Florence itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279538315317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0896601110","price":110.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780896601116.jpg?v=1780601627","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-florence-2-volumes-9780896601116","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}