Renaissance Art: A Crash Course

by David Boyle

"Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is a companion to the most significant artistic, cultural - and scientific - period in history. Although historians don't agree about when it started, when it finished, or indeed why it happened at all, one thing they do agree on is that the Renaissance fundamentally changed the way people saw themselves and their place in the world forever. Organized in chronological order, Renaissance Art - A Crash Course shows how different disciplines and areas of achievement in the Renaissance revolution fed off one another and left the greatest artistic legacy of any age. With help from a cast that includes some of the most colorful characters in history Renaissance Art - A Crash Course is an introduction to this unique historical age."--BOOK JACKET.

Genres: Art, History

144 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2001

About the author

David Courtney Boyle was a British author and journalist who wrote mainly about history and new ideas in economics, money, business, and culture. He lived in Steyning in West Sussex.
He conducted an independent review for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office on public demand for choice in public services which reported in 2013. Boyle was a co-founder and policy director of Radix, which he characterized in 2017 as a radical centrist think tank. He was also co-director of the mutual think tank New Weather Institute.

Reviews

[Snail in Danger (Sid) Nicolaides · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is simultaneously too small and too large. It's physically too small to show sufficient images at sufficient sizes. But it's too large in scope; it tries to do too much at once. I don't think it's a very good way to try to learn about the Renaissance if you know nothing about it. But it does have some interesting trivial knowledge if you do already know about it in a medium-sized sort of way.

(It has some other issues, like not captioning or otherwise identifying some of the images. But it has a great little picture of Leonardo da Vinci's commission as a military engineer.)