{"product_id":"the-ugly-renaissance","title":"Alexander Lee: The Ugly Renaissance [2014] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing the beauties of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, combined with the dark and hidden side of the Renaissance, by an acclaimed historian and expert in the period.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenowned as an age of artistic rebirth, the Renaissance is cloaked with an aura of beauty and brilliance. But behind the Mona Lisa's smile lurked a seamy, vicious world of power politics, perversity and corruption that has more in common with the present day than anyone dares to admit. Enter a world of corrupt bankers, greedy politicians, sex-crazed priests, rampant disease, and lives of extravagance and excess. Enter the world of the \u003ci\u003eugly \u003c\/i\u003eRenaissance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncovering the hidden realities beneath the surface of the period's best-known artworks, historian Alexander Lee takes the reader on a breathtaking and unexpected journey through the Italian past and shows that, far from being the product of high-minded ideals, the sublime monuments of the Renaissance were created by flawed and tormented artists who lived in an ever-expanding world of bigotry and hatred. The only question is: will you ever see the Renaissance in quite the same way again?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lee, Alexander","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":48138166075731,"sku":"XG80099579472","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/lee-alexander-the-ugly-renaissance-xg80099579472-55901093527891.jpg?v=1728341234","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-ugly-renaissance","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}