The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome Constitutional Law In his father's rough-and-tumble household

In his father's rough-and-tumble household

Of Arms and Men brilliantly integrates the evolution of politics

ISBN13: 9781846867866 ISBN10: 184686786X Material Type: paperback

ISBN13: 9780373775767 ISBN10: 0373775768 Material Type: mass_market

The Culture of the High Renaissance: Ancients and Moderns in Sixteenth-Century Rome Constitutional Law In his father's rough-and-tumble householdBetween 1480 and 1520, a concentration of talented artists, including Melozzo da Forl, Bramante, Pinturicchio, Raphael, and Michelangelo, arrived in Rome and produced some of the most enduring works of art ever created. This period, now called the High Renaissance, is generally considered to be one of the high points of Western civilisation. How did it come about, and what were the forces that converged to spark such an explosion of creative activity?