A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most...sex. Taking Donatello's provocative reinvention of the nude as his starting point, Jonathan shows how the story of the Renaissance is the story of a sexual revolution. The great artists of the 15th and 16th century were not just visionaries, but lovers. Jonathan argues that the famous nudes of Michelangelo and Titian are not abstract images of ideal beauty, but erotic expressions of love and desire; and that in order to understand the Renaissance, we have to understand the sex lives of the men and women who defined it - men like Raphael, who obsessively painted his lover La Fornarina in the nude, Michelangelo, who made beautiful drawings of naked male bodies to present to the young man he adored, and Rembrandt, whose bedroom portraits of Hendrickje Stoffels are the frankest expressions of love anywhere in art.Sweeping from its origins in Florence in the mid-15th century to its culmination in the work of Rubens and Rembrandt in the 17th, The Loves of the Artistsshows that the Renaissance invented eroticism as we know it, and that the new ways of thinking about sex it engendered are crucial to understanding not only art but European culture as a whole.

The Loves of the Artists

Arts & Photography

Jonathan Jones

History & Criticism

Simon Schuster Ltd

Earthquakes, hurricanes, civil unrest, economic challenges - no one knows when disaster may strike. Will you be ready? The Provident Prepper is a common-sense guide to emergency preparedness and survival written for real people with real lives. This must-have reference book walks the reader through each step of emergency preparedness covering everything from cooking in a crisis, to home security and protection, to emergency water disinfection. You can be prepared for the challenges the future holds. The Provident Prepper will show you how. 
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The Provident Prepper: A Common-Sense Guide to Preparing for Emergencies

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kylene Jones

Home Improvement & Design

Cedar Fort. Inc.

We all have questions. And Christians are commanded to always be ready to give a defense for their faith. This new Pocket Guide from Answers in Genesis is designed to help by effectively dealing with critical questions facing our culture today. Here you will find condensed, illustrated answers in a manageable format . . . so you can always be equipped with reliable answers. How does the human body react to emergencies? Is the human eye really a bad design, as evolutionists like to point out? How is the human brain better than any supercomputer? What s so amazing about skin and bones? These and other questions are answered in this Pocket Guide to the Human Body. Anatomist Dr. David Menton is joined by other scientists who show how the amazing design of the human body points to a divine Designer. Be awestruck as you see that our bodies truly are fearfully and wonderfully made.

The Human Body: Intricate design that glorifies the Creator

David Menton

Heather M. Brinson

David DeWitt

Answers in Genesis-US

Gary Hume: Irish Museum of Modern Art

Irish Museum of Modern Art

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