Lemon Library Book Club Lemon Library Book Club: The Beauty and the Terror

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February’s Book of the Month is The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West by Catherine Fletcher. Selected to provide deeper historical context for the current exhibition Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection, this work examines the tumultuous reality behind a celebrated era of art history.

While the exhibition showcases the refined, poetic restraint of the Baroque period (spanning the early 17th to mid-18th centuries), Fletcher’s book reveals the complex history that preceded it. The splendor and cultural triumphs of the age emerged from a Renaissance characterized not just by art, but by war, slavery, and oppression. Join the discussion to explore the darker side of this magnificent opulence. Free.

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