The Bridge over the Abyss. Mystics and Humanists

No culture, no cultural stage has as direct a relationship to modernity as the Renaissance. The Renaissance is the most progressive and revolutionary period in the history of mankind. This is told by Paola Dmitrievna Volkova in the next book of the series "The Bridge over the Abyss," taking the baton from the first art historian, Giorgio Vasari, a true man of his era – a writer, painter, and architect.
The artists of the Renaissance – Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Titian, Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder – were never just artists. They were philosophers, they were charged with the main and fundamental problems of their time. The painters of the Renaissance, returning to the ideals of Antiquity, created a holistic concept of the world with internal unity, filling traditional religious subjects with earthly content.