European Art of the Fifteenth Century Maps Founded in 1602

Founded in 1602

and joyful

all from the collection of the Bodleian Library

until its very name had entered everyday usage as a synonym for the bizarre

“role” comes from the French word for scroll―and those looking for luck carried either blessings or magic spells

European Art of the Fifteenth Century Maps Founded in 1602This beautifully illustrated guide analyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of this early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the sixteenth century. Influenced by a revival of interest in Greco Roman ideals and sponsored by a newly prosperous merchant class, fifteenth century artists produced works of astonishingly innovative content and technique. The International Gothic style of