Renaissance in Italy, the Fine Arts (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Renaissance in Italy, the Fine ArtsThis third volume of my book on the Renaissance Italy does not pretend to retrace the history of the Italian arts, but rather to define their relation to the main movement of Renaissance culture. Keeping this, the chief Object of my. Whole work, steadily in View, I have tried to explain the de pendence of the arts on mediaeval Christianity at their commencementitheir gradual emancipation from. Ecclesiastical control, and their final attain ment of freedom at the moment when the classical revival culminated.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.