Culture and Values: A Survey of the Western Humanities, Volume 2This book has an ambitious aim. It surveys the major cultural achievements of Western civilization from the 15th century Renaissance in Italy down to the present day. At the outset, we feel we should set forth our basic philosophy, our orientations, and our hopes. We feel we owe this statement both to the instructure and, even more, to the students. |
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... painter to work in England was himself a Northerner , Hans Holbein the Younger ( 1497 / 8-1543 ) , whose portrait of Henry VIII is repro- duced on page 91. A magnificent portrait painter , Holbein found himself sent by Henry to paint ...
... painter to work in England was himself a Northerner , Hans Holbein the Younger ( 1497 / 8-1543 ) , whose portrait of Henry VIII is repro- duced on page 91. A magnificent portrait painter , Holbein found himself sent by Henry to paint ...
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... painter was Paul Cézanne ( 1839-1906 ) . It would be difficult to overes- timate the revolutionary quality of Cézanne's art , which has been compared to that of the proto - Renais- sance Florentine painter Giotto as an influence on ...
... painter was Paul Cézanne ( 1839-1906 ) . It would be difficult to overes- timate the revolutionary quality of Cézanne's art , which has been compared to that of the proto - Renais- sance Florentine painter Giotto as an influence on ...
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... painter . When that liaison cooled , as it rather quickly did , Vanessa Bell then fell in love and lived for a long time with another English painter , Duncan Grant ( 1885-1977 ) [ 280 ] . Roger Fry was an important and close friend of ...
... painter . When that liaison cooled , as it rather quickly did , Vanessa Bell then fell in love and lived for a long time with another English painter , Duncan Grant ( 1885-1977 ) [ 280 ] . Roger Fry was an important and close friend of ...
Contents
The Preface to both volumes appears in Volume I Introduction | 5 |
BETWEEN | 9 |
THE HIGH RENAISSANCE | 47 |
Copyright | |
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