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The word Renaissance means rebirth in Italian--and indeed the period we commonly call The Renaissance was a true rebirth of classical European beauty. Rather than simply remaining a closed period of heightened activity, however, the Renaissance--and the works created during it--has remained one of the true touchstones of Western culture. To many artists and art-lovers alike, it has truly been a gift that keeps on giving. This book contains 145+ HD Reproductions of Religious and Mythical, Portraits, Animals, and Landscape Scenes with annotations and biography. The book includes Table of Contents, Top 50 Museums and 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). The Virgin Mary and child sit enthroned in the middle of the painting as the faithful gather around in adulation. With her left hand, Mary crowns ahead baring the unmistakable features of the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I, with a rose garland (rosary). The only one in the crowd looking right at us stands in the distant background. His long flowing locks give him away, not to mention the Nurnberg city-scape behind him and the Latin sign he furtively holds for us: 'Produced in five months by the German, Albertus Durer, 1506.' Albrecht Durer was far more pious and earnest than boastful, but he had reason to be proud. Completed during his second professional sojourn in the great Renaissance hub of Venice, this painting was proof that he belonged with the great artists of Italy. As Durer excitedly wrote home to his dear friend, the humanist scholar Willibald Pirckheimer, Das Rosenkrantz (The Feast of the Rose Garlands) was silencing those who had said I was good at engraving but did not know how to paint in colors. Now, all say they have never seen finer colors.

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