The Flowering of the Renaissance

Following the collapse of Medici rule in fifteenth-century Florence the centre of Renaissance activity moved first to Rome and finally to Venice. In the Rome of Julius II and Leo X which Michelangelo remodelled and beautified in the Venice of Titian and Tintoretto and Palladio the Renaissance reached the height of its splendour not only in the visual arts but also in the theatre history biography epic poetry and music.

About the author

Vincent Cronin was educated at Ampleforth College, Harvard University, and Trinity College, Oxford, from which he graduated with honours in 1947. In addition to being a recipient of a W.H. Heinemann Award (1955) and a Rockefeller Foundation Award (1958), Cronin is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His works have been widely translated into European languages. He died in January 2011, aged 86.

Product details

• Authors: Vincent Cronin
• Publisher: Pimlico
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.09.1992
• EAN: 9780712698849
• ISBN: 978-0-7126-9884-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 614 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Civilization, Venice, ART / History / General, Rome, HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, History of Art, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599