A fascinating and counterintuitive portrait of the sordid, hidden world behind the dazzling artwork of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and more Renowned as a period of cultural rebirth and artistic innovation, the Renaissance is cloaked in a unique aura of beauty and brilliance. Its ...
E. Livermore Forbes, in Cassirer, Kristeller, and Randall, Renaissance Philosophy of Man, 223.“the nature of all other beings is limited”: Ibid., 225.“You shall have the power”: Ibid.1. MICHELANGELO’S NOSEhe was busy copying: Vasari, Lives, 1:332.“surpassed and vanquished the ancients”: Ibid., 1:...