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This book is part of a series that focus on different sorts of art. It is really just a thumbnail sketch and pretends to be no more. There are sections on Architecture, Sculpture and painting. The approach is generally to provide a set of examples but this is done within an historical context and there is some perceptive comment behind the mere selection of examples of the Renaissance arts. As he says: "At the heart of the wealth and the breadth of achievement that characterised these two centuries of Renaissance creativity was a freedom from the rigid conventions, the formalism of Gothic art". Yes it's brief. But they do a great job in a mere 60 pages, I give it 3 stars. ( )

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