The Renaissance (Questions and Analysis in History)
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The Renaissance (Questions and Analysis in History)
Jocelyn Hunt, The Renaissance (Questions and Analysis in History)
Routledge Publishing | ISBN 0415195276 | 2005 | PDF | 4 MB | 144 pages
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The term is most commonly used when discussing fine art, and it is in this sense that most of us are familiar with it. Yet revisionist historians argue that art was its least important aspect, and the one which was least discussed by contemporaries. The emphasis on art dates back only to the mid-nineteenth century and the writings of Jacob Burckhardt, and we should instead focus on the development of humanism and the classical studies of the universities . The assumption that Florence was pre-eminent is similarly Burckhardtian, since, it is argued, the scholars of the Renaissance were based in Rome, and in the other universities. On the other hand, the names most clearly associated with the Renaissance remain those of artists, and indeed, artists from Florence.
