Something happened in the Renaissance, something that surged up against the constraints that centuries had constructed around curiosity, desire, indi… - Stephen Greenblatt
" "Something happened in the Renaissance, something that surged up against the constraints that centuries had constructed around curiosity, desire, individuality, sustained attention to the material world, the claims of the body. The cultural shift is notoriously difficult to define, and its significance has been fiercely contested. But it can be intuited easily enough when you look in Siena at Duccio’s painting of the enthroned Virgin, the Maestà, and then in Florence at Botticelli’s Primavera.
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About Stephen Greenblatt
(born November 7, 1943) is an American Shakespearean, literary historian, and author.
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