Florence: De geniale stad
Waarom Florence zoveel genieën voortbracht in haar gouden vijftiende eeuw
Koen De Vos
Ambo/Anthos, 2019
€29,95
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The ingenious city of scientist Koen de Vos is an homage to the Italian Renaissance. A beautiful history about the brilliant artist in fifteenth-century Florence and the masterpieces that they left behind. What the seventeenth century is for Amsterdam is the fifteenth century for Florence. In less than a hundred years, artists and thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Rafael, Botticelli, Brunelleschi, Fra Angelico and Lorenzo de Medici established the name of this small town. Their works are admired all over the world. These artists and scholars were on the eve of the Renaissance, a period that would introduce countless innovations in art.
Where did this unparalleled bloom come from and how can it be explained? How is it possible that a town with just 60,000 inhabitants produced so many geniuses in just a hundred years? Based on nine conditions that make genius possible, Koen De Vos sketches in The Genius City what made fifteenth-century Florence so special and how so many Florentine artists and thinkers have been able to determine the course of art history forever. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789026349690
