Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance Body Art & Tattoo Despite a long and eventful

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ISBN13: 9780395655658 ISBN10: 039565565X Material Type: hardcover

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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance Body Art & Tattoo Despite a long and eventfulThe flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship and the serendipitous coming together of some of the greatest artists the world has ever known: this is the traditional view of the Renaissance. This work provides an interpretation of that age of European culture. In it, the author argues that while aristocrats and newly prosperous merchants commissioned works of art from the leading artists of the day, vicious commercial battles