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The book lifts the veil of excessive sublimity and divine glory to examine the nakedness of the artist's daily life and how his field was a mixture of elegance and violence, culture and suffering; how the tensions and resentments between rulers, bankers and the Church became an integral part of the Renaissance; and how irrational and full of prejudice Renaissance people were towards the world outside Italy.