Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's FoundingMadison Books, 1998 M11 13 - 648 pages In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art? |
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... tion , if sufficiently controlled not to be destructive , is itself a source of vitality . There is , of course , nothing original in the idea that a contest can be invigorat- ing and sometimes ultimately unifying rather than divisive ...
... tion , if sufficiently controlled not to be destructive , is itself a source of vitality . There is , of course , nothing original in the idea that a contest can be invigorat- ing and sometimes ultimately unifying rather than divisive ...
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... tion and a decline in markets and production made even the fifteenth century largely a period of economic retreats and rear - guard actions . So much for the theory that prosperity pushed the Italian states into the Renaissance ! But to ...
... tion and a decline in markets and production made even the fifteenth century largely a period of economic retreats and rear - guard actions . So much for the theory that prosperity pushed the Italian states into the Renaissance ! But to ...
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... tion was the character of the instruction they sponsored . Some teaching was designed to prepare the student for a specific role , as with religious instruction for Christian service and vocational training in painting or sculpture ...
... tion was the character of the instruction they sponsored . Some teaching was designed to prepare the student for a specific role , as with religious instruction for Christian service and vocational training in painting or sculpture ...
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... tion , but in his religious scenes the individual humanity of the figures asserts itself before we become aware of the esthetic pattern . Giorgio Vasari , in 1550 , called him the first artist to paint in the " good modern manner ...
... tion , but in his religious scenes the individual humanity of the figures asserts itself before we become aware of the esthetic pattern . Giorgio Vasari , in 1550 , called him the first artist to paint in the " good modern manner ...
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... tion , for he never mastered the older language . In 1340 he was seen so much as the inheritor of the classical traditions of literature that both Paris and Rome sought to crown him with the laurel wreath of poet laureate . Some ...
... tion , for he never mastered the older language . In 1340 he was seen so much as the inheritor of the classical traditions of literature that both Paris and Rome sought to crown him with the laurel wreath of poet laureate . Some ...
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