A History of Painting
Subtitle: The Renaissance in Central Italy Part One
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781417945061
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General; Art / History / General
First sentence: IN Italy, and in France on that side that lies hard by northern Italy, as well as in northern France, where she reaches to the flood of the Rhine, there began to dawn in the twelve hundreds a new meaning in life, a new revelation of the significance of life; and with the dawn was to be created what is somewhat foolishly called a re-birth, a Renaissance, of the arts-for the arts evolve, as all life evolves, and dead things are re-born never.