The Renaissance - A Very Short Introduction
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978–0–19–280163–0
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
2006
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loginNational museums and art galleries are the most obvious places togo to understand what we mean when we talk about ‘TheRenaissance’. Most visitors to London’s National Gallery fail toleave without seeing one of the most famous works of art in itscollection – Hans Holbein’s The Ambassadors, dated 1533. Formany people Holbein’s painting is an abiding image of theEuropean Renaissance. But what is it that makes Holbein’spainting such a recognizably ‘Renaissance’ image?
