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Renaissance
- Northern RenaissanceThe Northern Renaissance began in the last years of the 15th century, occurring north of the Alps. This movement developed later than its Italian counterpart…
- Renaissance artRenaissance art spans a remarkable period from roughly 1350 to 1620, and its story begins with a single bronze door competition in Florence in 1401.
- RenaissanceAround 1440, from a single print shop in Mainz, Germany, a machine began throwing off pages by the hundred. Within sixty years that movable-type press had…
- Renaissance humanismIn the final years of the thirteenth century, a cultural shift began in Tuscany and the Veneto region. Manuscripts and inscriptions were in high demand as…
- Greek scholars in the RenaissanceGreek scholars in the Renaissance carried something irreplaceable westward: the accumulated knowledge of a civilization that had mostly vanished from Western…
- Science in the RenaissanceThe year 1453 marked a turning point when Constantinople fell to Ottoman forces. Byzantine scholars fled westward, carrying precious Greek manuscripts into…
- English RenaissanceScholars argue over the exact moment when the English Renaissance began. Some point to the late 15th century while others insist it started in the early 16th…
- Renaissance of the 12th centuryThe Renaissance of the 12th century did not begin with a painter mixing pigments or a poet picking up a quill. It began earlier, in the wreckage of the…
- Renaissance technologyRenaissance technology was the engine beneath one of history's most celebrated intellectual awakenings. Between roughly the 14th and 16th centuries, European…
- Italian RenaissanceIn 1550, the Italian historian Giorgio Vasari published Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, and in it he reached for a single…
- Sack of Rome (1527)In 1526, Pope Clement VII formed an alliance with King Francis I of France to counter the growing power of Charles V. This coalition included the Duchy of…
- PolymathPolymath. The word itself comes from Greek: poly, meaning many, and manthanein, meaning to learn. But behind the etymology lies something more ambitious than…