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The Red Lily
 

         Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse, 2006.          Paperbound, 8.5 x 11”

The red lily, an ancient symbol of the city of Florence Italy, becomes a metaphor for the historical transformation from the middle ages to the Renaissance and the modern world. Written as a screenplay, this book is well illustrated with color images from the city of Florence and of works of art produced in the fifteenth century.

    It is a romance, a story about two young men who in their innocence become recruited into the Florentine militia for a battle with the Milanese at Anghiari. As we follow these young men into adulthood through the fifteenth century, we witness the transformation in life and art to a reason-based thinking process that places a new emphasis on humanity rather than on ideologically based formulas of past times.

   Written as quasi-historical screenplay, some artistic liberties are taken, but specific works of art and historical personalities enter and exit based on historical events.

About the Author

Darrell Davisson earned his doctorate in the history of art at The Johns Hopkins University in 1971, a Masters degree at UCLA, and has been a contributor and teacher in the field of Renaissance studies in fifteenth century Florence.

He has published in the journals The Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine and Studies in Iconography. He is also a student of the southwest (The Long Walk to Whééldi, an article in the New Mexico Magazine), and in the social and psychological history of modern art, as will appear in his forthcoming book Art After the Bomb: Simulacra and Violence in Late Modern Art.

After a career in university teaching he is currently Adjunct Professor at the Antelope Valley College, in Lancaster, California.

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Product Details

Author: Darrell D. Davisson
Paperback: 89 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse, Inc.
Date: July 2006
Language: English
Color Images: 31
Bibliographical Citations: 3
Size: 8.5" x 11"
ISBN: 1-4259-0080-1 (sc)

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