Название: The Renaissance in Italy and Spain
Автор: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Издательство: ‎‎The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Размер: 52 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Toward the middle of the 13th century, a revolution in perception and expression occurred in southern Europe. Philosophy and art, which for centuries had been preoccupied by the mysteries of the Christian faith, began to turn to the beauties of life on earth. Faith, of course, remained firm, and thinkers and artists still took their themes from the Old and New Testaments and the writings of the Church Fathers. But as men and women began to ponder not the next life, but this one, the manner of artistic expression came to reflect this new attention to the form of man himself and the appearance of his physical environment.