Art & Civilization: Renaissance

Examining history in an exciting new way, the Art and Civilization of the Renaissance takes fourteen major works of Renaissance art and many other artifacts, maps, and documents and explains how they reflect the beliefs and aspirations of the rulers, artists, and ordinary people who took Europe from the Middle Ages to the edges of modernity. Chapter headings are: Importance of the Classical World, Guilds, Merchants and Trade, Cities, Private Life, Warfare and Weapons, The Printing Revolution, The Reformation, Science and Invention, Renaissance Art, and New Worlds.