Classics, Mary Beard and John Henderson
Type
Label
Classics, Mary Beard and John Henderson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrationsmaps
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Classics
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
548555973
Responsibility statement
Mary Beard and John Henderson
Series statement
A brief insight
Table Of Contents
Introduction. Whose Renaissance? whose art? -- The art of the altarpiece -- Storytelling in Renaissance art -- The challenge of nature and the antique -- Portraiture and the rise of "Renaissance man" -- Did women have a Renaissance? -- Objects and images for the domestic sphere -- The story of a square : art and urbanism in Florence -- Michelangelo : the birth of the artist and of art history