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Jews, and The Birth of the Modern. Johnson writes a weekly essay for the Spectator and is a frequent contributor to The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and other newspapers and magazines throughout the world. He lives in London.

1 Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Court, Cloister and City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe, 1450–1800 (University of Chicago Press, 1995), chapter 1.

2 Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (London: National Gallery Co., 1999).

3 See E. H. Gombrich, Gombrich on the Renaissance, vol. III (London: Phaidon Press, 1993), pp. 79 ff.

4 For Renaissance music, see The New Grove Dictionary of Music, vol. 15, Music in the Age of the Renaissance by L. L. Perkins (New York: Macmillan, 1999).

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1. Renaissance. 2. Civilization, Medieval. 3. Europe—History—15th

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Modern Library Chronicles

CHRONOLOGY

PART 1 - THE HISTORICAL AND ECONOMIC BACKGROUND

PART 2 - THE RENAISSANCE IN LITERATURE AND SCHOLARSHIP

PART 3 - THE ANATOMY OF RENAISSANCE SCULPTURE

PART 4 - THE BUILDINGS OF THE RENAISSANCE

PART 5 - THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSIONS OF RENAISSANCE PAINTING

PART 6 - THE SPREAD AND DECLINE OF THE RENAISSANCE

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