Circa 1492 : Art in the age of exploration

Levenson, Jay A. Éditeur commercial

National gallery of art (Washington, D.C.)

Edité par National Gallery of Art ; Yale University Press - 1991

Columbus planned and carried out his Enterprise of the Indies during an age of discovery and creation - a period of astonishing cultural activity not only in Europe but throughout the world. Five hundred years later an exhibition and book celebrate this crucial turning point in civilization by examining the art and history of the principal cultures in Europe and the Mediterranean, the Far East, and the Americas

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