Earthly Delights: A History of the Renaissance

Written by one of the UK’s foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance takes in the whole of Europe and its global context. Earthly DelightsArt critic and writer Jonathan Jones tells the story of Renaissance artists as pioneers, adventurers and "geniuses," a Renaissance concept. Albrecht Dürer gazes with wonder on Aztec art in Brussels in 1520, Leonardo da Vinci tries to perfect a flying machine, Hieronymus Bosch finds inspiration in West African ivory carvings imported by the Portuguese to Antwerp. A then unknown Netherlandish painter, Pieter Bruegel, arrives in 1550s Rome just as Michelangelo is striving in the same city to raise the new St Peter’s Basilica towards heaven. From Atlantic voyages to Germanic woods, Italian palazzi to the royal castle of Prague, this was an age when people dared to experiment with the occult and dabble in utopias: to think and create new worlds.

• | Author: Jonathan Jones
• | Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2023
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780500023136
• | ISBN-10: 0500023131