The Renaissance

See Through History

by Tim Wood

Full-color illustrations on acetate can be peeled back to reveal cutaways of the Renaissance interiors of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, a printer's workshop, a Florentine town house, and Columbus's Santa Maria.

Genres: School, Renaissance

48 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1993

Reviews

[Roger Flores-Chacon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wanted to learn more about how the Europeans evolved to making new ideas instead of sticking with old ones, so this is pretty much about The European Renaissance. There were no controversial topics in this book. The title does fit the book, but there were a lot more important facts like how they performed surgery to people unsanitized because it shows how we got to know more facts about the world around each and everyone of us.

[Christina Taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

By exploring developments in various fields of study and interest, The Renaissance—part of the See Through History series—presents a broad overview of the events, institutions and technology which shaped its titular era. Proceeding from a brief explanation of the fall of the western Roman Empire and the ensuing Middle Ages, this work addresses a new topic with every opening, breaking each subject down into bold-headed sections, each with a handful of sentences written in a broad informational style. Illustrations are plentiful, and include both representational scenes and contemporary art and maps. Four of the chapters include a full-page illustration of a building with a transparent overlay which reveals the inner structure when the page is turned. Although it is of necessity highly focused on the European experience of the era, and lacks a great deal of analytical depth and detail, this book would make a good introduction to the era for students about to read Machiavelli's The Prince or Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet or Merchant of Venice.