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There’s no such thing as a ‘golden age,’ says Renaissance scholar
In new book, UChicago’s Ada Palmer explores popular misunderstandings of the Renaissance and historical myths used for ...
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Key Motifs in Italian Renaissance Art: Mythology to Portraits
According to Renaissance humanists like Francesco Petrarch, the first birth of culture took place in Classical antiquity. Writing in the mid-1300s and therefore somewhat biased, Petrarch saw the ...