Earthly DelightsSunday Times Art Book of the Year: Written by one of the UK's foremost art critics, this new narrative history of the Renaissance embraces the entirety of Europe and its global context. What was the 'Renaissance'? In the nineteenth century, this flourishing of creativity and thought was celebrated as the birth of the modern world. Today, many historians are sceptical about its very existence. Earthly Delights rekindles the Renaissance as a seismic