These substantial volumes on art periods vividly portray the most important achievements from the areas of European architecture, sculpture, and painting. The impressive photographs of works from all visual arts movements are at the center of these richly illustrated volumes. The books successfully provide an overview of the artistic diversity of the individual periods, and the...(展开全部)

Comments： The 20th century's masterpiece about Renaissance humanism Hans Baron successfully argues that civic humanists played a crucial role in the shift from the medieval to the modern age. These new humanists were - unlike their "ivory tower" isolated, contemplative, medieval counterparts - active citizens of the Florentine Republic and of their families and society. The Cri...(展开全部)

【著者简介】 [美] 斯蒂芬妮·波拉斯（Stephanie Porras），曾任教于考陶尔德艺术学院和哥伦比亚大学，现为杜兰大学艺术史教授。她的研究重点是15—17世纪的欧洲北部艺术，著有《彼得·勃鲁盖尔的历史想象》《北方文艺复兴艺术：宫廷、商业与虔信》《第一批病毒式传播的图像：梅尔滕·德·沃斯、安特卫普和早期现代全球》等。 - 【译者简介】 李方木，北京外国语大学文学博士，英语人文社科译者，现任山东师范大学外国语学院副教授，近期出版译著有《文艺复兴时期的威尼斯艺术：从传统到个人主义》《我和我的世界：威廉·福克纳传》等。

Many studies have shown that images—their presence in the daily lives of the faithful, the means used to control them, and their adaptation to secular uses—were at the heart of the Reformation crisis in northern Europe. But the question as it affects the art of Italy has been raised only in highly specialized studies. In this book, Alexander Nagel provides the first truly synt...(展开全部)

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In her elegant new introduction, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in European cultural history, when between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries Italy led the world in painting, building, science and literature. Her book explores key artistic, literary a...(展开全部)

One of the great geniuses of the early Renaissance, Alberti was a master of historical architecture as well as a creator of some of his own era's lasting monuments. A noted writer and courtier, he embraced all of the activities of the 15th-century Italian "universal man," including being a superb athlete. To keep up with and relate all he achieved requires a superman of a histo...(展开全部)