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3. How did art reflect new Renaissance ideals? (p. 60)
4. What were the key social hierarchies in Renaissance Europe? (p. 67)
5. How did nation-states develop in this period? (p. 70)

Suggested Resources

BOOKS
Earle, T. F., and K. J. P. Lowe, eds. Black Africans in King, Ross. Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power. 2006.
Renaissance Europe. 2005. Includes essays discussing A brief biography that explores Machiavelli’s thought
many aspects of ideas about race and the experience of in its social and political context.
Africans in Europe. Man, John. Gutenberg Revolution: The Story of a
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as an Agent of Genius and an Invention That Changed the World.
Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations 2002. Presents a rather idealized view of Gutenberg,
in Early Modern Europe. 1979. The definitive study of but has good discussions of his milieu and excellent
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the impact of printing. illustrations.
Distributed by Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishers.
Ertman, Thomas. The Birth of Leviathan: Building States Najemy, John M. A History of Florence, 1200–1575.
and Regimes in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. 1997. 2008. A comprehensive survey of cultural, political, and
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A good introduction to the creation of nation-states. social developments, based on the newest research.
Hartt, Frederick, and David Wilkins. History of Italian Nauert, Charles. Humanism and the Culture of Renais-
Renaissance Art, 7th ed. 2010. A comprehensive survey sance Europe, 2d ed. 2006. A thorough introduction to
of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy. humanism throughout Europe.
Heng, Geraldine. The Invention of Race in the Euro- Rummel, Erica. Desiderius Erasmus. 2006. An excel-
pean Middle Ages. 2018. A survey of medieval ideas lent short introduction to Erasmus as a scholar and
Christian thinker.
about difference. Uncorrected proofs have been used in this sample.
Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Waley, Daniel, and Trevor Dean. The Italian City-
Renaissance. 1998. Discusses changing notions of Republics, 4th ed. 2009. Analyzes the rise of indepen-
social status, artistic patronage, and consumer goods. dent city-states in northern Italy, including discussion
Johnson, Geraldine. Renaissance Art: A Very Short of the artistic and social lives of their inhabitants.
Introduction. 2005. An excellent brief survey that Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E. Women and Gender in Early
includes male and female artists, and sets the art in its Modern Europe, 4th ed. 2019. Discusses all aspects of
cultural and historical context. women’s lives and ideas about gender.

MEDIA
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Carol Reed, 1965). A classic instruments, clothing, household furnishings, and
film highlighting the conflict between Michelangelo political and economic developments. www
and Pope Julius II over the painting of the Sistine .metmuseum.org/toah/
Chapel, with Charlton Heston as the artist and Rex Leonardo da Vinci (BBC, 2004). A three-part docu-
Harrison as the pope. mentary telling the life story of Leonardo as an artist,
The Borgias (Showtime, 2011). A fictionalized docudrama inventor, and engineer. Features tests of his designs
of the rise of the Borgia family to power in the church and for the parachute, tank, diving suit, and glider, and an
in Italy, with Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander VI. investigation of the Mona Lisa.
Dangerous Beauty (Marshall Herskovitz, 1998). A Medici Archive Project. An online database for
biographical drama about the life of Veronica Franco, researching the nearly 3 million letters held by the
a well-educated courtesan in sixteenth-century Venice, archives on the Medici Grand Dukes of Tuscany, who
based on the biography of Franco written by Margaret ruled Florence from 1537 to 1743. Includes topical
Rosenthal. “document highlights” in English and Italian, accom-
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. An online chrono- panied by illustrations. www.medici.org/
logical, geographical, and thematic exploration of The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (PBS, 2004).
the history of art from around the world, run by the A four-part documentary examining the power and
Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes numerous patronage of the Medici family, shot on location, with
special topics sections on nearly every aspect of extensive coverage of art and architecture.
Renaissance art, and also on book production, musical

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