Fleming Community Library

Discover how multifaceted artists, skilled as painters, sculptors and architects, presented new ideas about perspective, harmony and beauty. Explore the culutral centers of Italy and Northern Europe and the artists who made them famous--from Donatello and Leonardo da Vinci to Van Eyck and Durer.

Describes the history, culture, and life of people living during the Renaissance.

An anthology of essays on the Renaissance that highlight political trends and consequences, literary, cultural and/or technological ramifications and pivotal leaders. Includes a collection of excerpts from primary source documents pertaining to the historical events and figures .

Lists over 2500 entries covering the principal issues, events, and people in Europe throughout the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries.

A brief biography of this Italian Renaissance painter accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.

Using a mysterious wardrobe that allows them to travel through time, two eleven-year-olds, Federico, a boy from the Italian Renaissance and Bee, a girl from present-day New Jersey, work together to prevent the bickering between two great artists from changing the future.

Chronicles the early twentieth-century artistic and intellectual revolution in black America.

"Florence, the 1550s. Lucrezia, third daughter of the grand duke, is comfortable with her obscure place in the palazzo: free to wonder at its treasures, observe its clandestine workings, and devote herself to her own artistic pursuits. But when her older sister dies on the eve of her wedding to the ruler of Ferrara, Modena and Reggio, Lucrezia is thrust unwittingly into the limelight: the duke is quick to request her hand in marriage, and her father...

A treatise in which eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant attempts to reconcile empiricism and rationalism.

In 'Three Fires', Denise Mina re-imagines the "Bonfire of the Vanities, a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the 15th century - inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola, a friar and anti-corruption campaigner. In dramatizing the life of Savonarola, Mina explores the downfall of the original architect of cancel culture and, in the process, explores the never-ending tensions between wealth, inequality, and freedom of speech that...