The ivory mirror : the art of mortality in Renaissance Europe / Stephen Perkinson ; with contributions by Naomi Speakman, Katherine Baker, Elizabeth Morrison, Emma Maggie Solberg.

"We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions of Death personified, of decaying bodies, of young lovers struck down in their prime. These morbid t...

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Main Author: Perkinson, Stephen (Author)
Other Authors: Speakman, Naomi (Contributor), Baker, Katherine (Professor) (Contributor), Morrison, Elizabeth, 1968- (Contributor), Solberg, Emma Maggie (Contributor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Brunswick, Maine : Bowdoin College Museum of Art, [2017]
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