Bridge Over the Abyss: Mystics and Humanists

No culture, no cultural stage has such a direct connection to modernity as the Renaissance epoch. The Renaissance is the most progressive and revolutionary period in human history. This next audiobook of the cycle “Bridge Over the Abyss” tells the story, continuing the baton passed by the first art historian, Giorgio Vasari, of its author’s—writer, painter, and architect—true contemporary.

Renaissance artists—Sandro Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Titian, Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel the Elder—were never merely artists. They were philosophers. They were charged with the most important and fundamental problems of their time. Renaissance painters, returning to the ideals of Antiquity, created a coherent, internally unified concept of the world, filling traditional religious plots with earthly content.

This edition is a revised cycle of “Bridge Over the Abyss,” in the form Paola Dmitrievna Volkov originally intended—according to historical and chronological order. It will also include unpublished lectures from her personal archive.