The Renaissance: Influences, Ideas, Inventions

In this fascinating, beautifully illustrated book author Phyllis G. Jestice takes you on a stunning journey through the Renaissance world, exploring the lives of the great artists, the birth of new ideas and the politics that made such radical change possible.

In the 15th century, a new movement brought an unprecedented flowering of creativity throughout Europe - the Renaissance. Intellectuals re-examined the works of ancient Greece and Rome to reshape their own thinking, artists developed n...