Renaissance Art
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Renaissance Art
69.99 €
The thinkers and artists of the Renaissance combined the Christian aspiration to spirituality with the ancient trust in the world of earthly beauty: they left mankind unrivaled examples of inspired artistic works and lit the way for the art of Europe in the following centuries.
From now on and forever "man desires to visit everywhere... He measures heaven and earth, explores the dark abysses of Tartarus. The sky does not seem to him too high and the center of the earth does not seem to him too deep... No barrier obscures or hinders his discernment. No limits satisfy him. He tries to dominate everywhere, to be exalted everywhere. And thus tries to be as omnipresent as God" - so wrote about the time of the Renaissance great philosopher Marcelino Ficcino, head of the Florentine Platonic Academy, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. The world of the Renaissance is deep and diverse, the dark events of history intertwined with the rise of the spirit, tragic fates illuminated by the unforgettable in the centuries of accomplishment. The genius of the Renaissance has only revealed to us its innumerable treasures
From now on and forever "man desires to visit everywhere... He measures heaven and earth, explores the dark abysses of Tartarus. The sky does not seem to him too high and the center of the earth does not seem to him too deep... No barrier obscures or hinders his discernment. No limits satisfy him. He tries to dominate everywhere, to be exalted everywhere. And thus tries to be as omnipresent as God" - so wrote about the time of the Renaissance great philosopher Marcelino Ficcino, head of the Florentine Platonic Academy, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. The world of the Renaissance is deep and diverse, the dark events of history intertwined with the rise of the spirit, tragic fates illuminated by the unforgettable in the centuries of accomplishment. The genius of the Renaissance has only revealed to us its innumerable treasures
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