Why do the paintings and poetry of the Italian Renaissancemdash;a celebration of classical antiquitymdash;also depict the Florentine countryside populated with figures dressed in contemporary silk robes and fleur-de-lys crowns? Dempsey argues that a fusion of classical form with contemporary content was the defining characteristic of the period.
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