Outer Beauty Inner Joy:
Contemplating the Soul of the Renaissance
by: Julianne Davidow



 
Introduction by Thomas Moore, author of the best selling Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life.

Outer Beauty Inner Joy is a spiritual book about beauty in which the author has gathered the wisdom of Renaissance writers and artists into a contemplative modern-day book of hours. Using the visual beauty of Renaissance masterpieces and the wisdom of the poets and artists of the time the author shows, in the words from Thomas Moore's Foreword, "in visual images, words, and description, a point of view that has been utterly lost to the modern mind: the idea that divinity and humanism go together." The people quoted include Petrarch, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo de' Medici, Leone Ebreo, Tullia D'Aragona and Moderata Fonte. Their soulful, timeless words are placed with evocative images to create a book that reveals the attitude and quality of mind of a period that remains fundamental to modern spiritual well-being.

Julianne Davidow is a writer and photographer. Her writing and photography have been published in numerous publications and she has exhibited in Italy, New York and at the Royal Academy, London.



 
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ISBN: 9781593730864
Publication date: Oct. 2010
Format: Hardcover, 8" X 8"
Extent: 144 pgs - 60 color photographs
Category: Inspiration/Self-help