| Authors: |
Jones, Jonathan.
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| Material type: |
Book |
| Subject: |
Renaissance -- Italy.
Michelangelo Buonarroti,1475-1564.
Leonardo,da Vinci,1452-1519.
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012, c2010. |
| Description: |
xii, 354 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780307594754 0307594750 |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-318) and index. |
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"Originally published in Great Britain in slightly different form by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd., London, in 2010"--T.p. verso. |
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| Summary: |
The great artistic clash between Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci marks the true beginning of the High Renaissance. Re-creating sixteenth-century Florence with astonishing verve and aplomb, the author not only sheds new light on the making of the modern world but, in its portrait of two cultural titans going toe to toe, rewires our understanding of the personalities of the Renaissance's greatest icons. |