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Renowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa's smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess. Enter the world of the ugly Renaissance. Uncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period's best-known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever-expanding world of bigotry and hatred. The only question is: will you ever see the Renaissance in quite the same way again?

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Ugly Renaissance
• Author: Alexander Lee
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 608
• EAN: 9780091944346
• ISBN: 0091944341
• ID: 01321512
• Publisher: HUTCHINSON BOOKS
• Weight: 956 g
• Dimensions: 240 × 161 × 48 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. September 2013

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