HST3086   Art, Power and History: Ideals and Reality in Renaissance Florence II   (20 credits)

Description

With its rich artistic life, financial innovations, and vibrant humanist culture, Renaissance Florence had a lasting influence on the rest of Europe. This module makes full use of the extremely rich visual and documentary sources available to historians (including paintings, sculpture, architecture, diaries, memoirs, tax and electoral records, sermons, histories, political writings) to explore the complex interrelations of social, cultural and political history. In doing so it provides the essential context for the understanding of key figures such as Machiavelli, Bruni, Alberti, Guicciardini, Vasari and Savonarola.

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