Mirror of the Gods How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods

Name: Mirror of the Gods How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods
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ISBN: 9780195219234

ISBN-10: 0195219236

ISBN-13: 9780195219234

Edition: 2005

Authors: Malcolm Bull

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By the end of the 15th century, the remains of the ancient gods littered the landscape of Western Europe. Christianity had erased the religions of ancient Greece and Rome and most Europeans believed the destruction of classical art was God's judgment on the pagan deities. How, then, did European artists during the next three centuries create such monumental works as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Raphael's Parnassus? In The Mirror of the Gods, Malcolm Bull tells the revolutionary story of how the great artists of Western Europe--from Botticelli and Leonardo to Titian and Rubens--revived the gods of ancient Greece and Rome. Each chapter focuses on a different deity and sheds dazzling…

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List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/21/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 496
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.30" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.946

Malcolm Bull teaches at Oxford University.Keith Lockhart is a London-based journalist