Joseph Luzzi

And I like what art historian Jeremy Angier said, quote, they were instruments of history, channels through which the course of art inevitably ran, and they set the stage for the modern world, end of quote.

Writer Joseph Luzzi, in his book Botticelli's Secret, The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance, says, quote, true to its etymology, represented a return to something that had been lost, especially the pagan culture of ancient times and the celebration of earthly life due to the intense religiosity of the medieval world.

For that generation of scholars, connoisseurs and collectors, the word Renaissance depended on its prefix re.

It was an age of rebirth, rediscovery and reinvention.