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Renaissance, a French term that has come to describe the 'rebirth' of interest in classical art and learning, above all from Italy, from the early 14th to the mid 16th centuries. The term is applied as a stylistic label to the art of these centuries. The rediscovery of ancient coins, sculptures, and philosophical ideas contributed to debates in societies that were already changing. New religious practices placed greater emphasis on naturalistic art that could tell stories. Ancient sculpture offered extraordinary examples of this, stimulating contemporary artists who were already exploring believable ways to represent the world around them. This book contains 180+ Renaissance Reproductions of landscapes, portraits, religious and mythical subjects. The book includes Annotations (woodcut titles have been translated from German to English), Altdorfer biography, Table of Contents, and Top 50 Museums of the World. Altdorfer is formatted for all Kindle devices, Kindle for iOS and Android tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Napoleon's troops flooded across the German lands and brought the thousand-year existence of the Holy Roman Empire to a swift end. While plundering the capital of the southern German Duchy of Bavaria, Munich, they hauled off an astonishing battle-scene painting. Created three centuries earlier in nearby Regensburg, it depicted the ancient clash of Alexander the Great's forces with his Persian foes. Soon the painting could be found in the hallowed halls of the Louvre, where a visiting German critic was left marveling at this small world of a few feet ... [a] painted Iliad. Europe's new Alexander agreed because when Prussian troops stormed Napoleon's residence in 1814 they found the Alexanderschlacht adorning his walls.

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