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                                                                     RENAISSANCE  IN TUSCANY 
is the site of an independent scholarly observer of the renaissance from Florence to Pienza and round about.  It is envisaged as an ongoing endeavour through a series of enquiries, short essays  and reflections on arts and architecture of the Tuscan quattrocento,  the early renaissance.   We all admire renaissance beauty and splendour: can exploration of certain artworks or visual puzzles help us to see more,  through renaissance minds' eyes ?
                                                                                                    
                                                     ‘Now that you're in Italy, work on something that you can see’:  Bernard Berenson  (1947)

               'But don't let him pass through like a temporary guest or a hurrying tourist .  Rather, he should pause, poke around,  
                                                           and try to understand what he is seeing':  Leonardo Bruni  (1402)

                             'The eyes of the wise man are in his head -- that is, in his mind':  Bishop William Durand (circa 1296)

  'The work of scholars has often been compared with the solution of jigsaw puzzles, and in such puzzles of sufficient                                   intricacy the demonstration of a fit can be so compelling that it cannot be evaded':  E.H. Gombrich (1984)

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Launched in 2012,  much more is to come on Andrew Johnson's RenaissanceInTuscany.
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Pienza's Missing Statues:  
Insight from a Renaissance Puzzle into a Pope's World

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