在这本生动的记述中，Scott Nethersole探讨了1400年至1520年（传统上被称为文艺复兴的初期和鼎盛时期）佛罗伦萨文化、艺术和知识蓬勃发展的非凡时期。他用全新的眼光看待这座城市及其艺术，在更广泛的文化参照背景下展示那些著名作品。由米开朗基罗、多纳泰罗、波提切利和布鲁内列斯基等画家创作的重要艺术作品——从油画、雕塑和建筑到泥金装饰手抄本和那些出人意料且不为人熟知的作品被放在一起展示。

In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic and intellectual blossoming in Florence from 1400 to 1520 – the period traditionally known as the Early and High Renaissance. He looks at the city and its art with fresh eyes, presenting the well-known within a wider context of cultural reference. Key works of art – from painting, sculpture and architecture to illuminated manuscripts – by artists such as Michelangelo, Donatello, Botticelli and Brunelleschi are showcased alongside the unexpected and less familiar.

在这一清晰的叙述中，斯蒂芬妮·波拉斯描绘了文艺复兴时期北欧艺术的迷人故事(约1400-1570)。她解释了阿尔卑斯以北地区的艺术家和赞助人——法国、英国、德国如何在重新定义艺术地位的同时，对一个政治、社会、经济和宗教迅速变化的时代做出反应。波拉斯不仅讨论了艺术家简·范·艾克和彼得·布鲁盖尔的画作，还讨论了雕塑、建筑、版画、金属制品、刺绣、挂毯和盔甲。

每一章都展示了大约20年的作品，同时也关注了一个广泛的主题问题，比如印刷行业的繁荣，北方艺术家和艺术品的流动。作者追溯了贵族宫廷作为艺术生产中心的影响和城市商人阶级的崛起，催生了新的消费者和新的艺术产品。

In this lucid account, Stephanie Porras charts the fascinating story of art in northern Europe during the Renaissance period (ca. 1400–1570). She explains how artists and patrons from the regions north of the Alps – the Low Countries, France, England, Germany – responded to an era of rapid political, social, economic, and religious change, while redefining the status of art. Porras discusses not only paintings by artists from Jan van Eyck to Pieter Bruegel the Elder, but also sculpture, architecture, prints, metalwork, embroidery, tapestry, and armor. Each chapter presents works from a roughly 20-year period and also focuses on a broad thematic issue, such as the flourishing of the print industry or the mobility of Northern artists and artworks. The author traces the influence of aristocratic courts as centers of artistic production and the rise of an urban merchant class, leading to the creation of new consumers and new art products.

本书涵盖了作者在这个领域最有影响力的论著，收录了他对文艺复兴时期的重要思潮——人文主义、柏拉图主义与亚里士多德主义等的诠释，以及对艺术近代体系形成的考察。

The book covers the most influential works of the author in this field, envolving his own interpretation towards the important thought during Renaissance about humanism, Platonism, Aristotelianism etc..The book also includes the exploration of the modern formation system of art.

文艺复兴时期可能是欧洲文化最有影响力和最富饶的时期。我们都熟悉文艺复兴时期的艺术巨匠：米开朗基罗、莱昂纳多、拉斐尔，但您对这一切的起源真正了解多少，为什么它如此具有革命性呢？  

这本书带您回顾了中世纪晚期意大利古典学习和人文主义思想的复兴，对文艺复兴时期的背景和历史进行了详细的介绍。

The Renaissance was probably the most influential and fertile period of European cultural history. We are all familiar with the giants of High Renaissance art – Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael – but how much do you really know about how it all started and why it was so revolutionary?  

This easily accessible, fresh and beautiful introduction to this wonderful world takes you from the stirrings of a revival in classical learning and humanist thought in late medieval Italy through the application of technical developments in painting and scientific knowledge, to the blossoming of astounding artworks that we all know and love, reaching its peak in the sixteenth century. 

这本书以布鲁内莱斯基、布拉曼特、拉斐尔和米开朗基罗等建筑师的作品为中心，揭示了文艺复兴时期建筑师与古典主义之间复杂而不断发展的关系，并对文艺复兴时期对古董的理解是如何变化的进行了广泛的阐述。大卫•海姆索尔揭示了在模仿策略上的显著差异是如何将这一时期的主要建筑师区别开来的，并主张对乔治•瓦萨里在16世纪首先阐述的广为接受的比喻有一个更微妙的理解，即文艺复兴时期的建筑是通过一个线性的一步一步发展而来的古物。这本书对文艺复兴时期建筑师接近古董的复杂的方式进行了深入的研究，并全面介绍了佛罗伦萨和罗马的文艺复兴时期的建筑。

A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope-first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century-that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.