Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation
evil and the poem concludes as Godfrey leads the tri- umphant crusaders to the Holy Sepulcher. It was trans- lated into English ...
It is an oversimplication to regard Ghiberti as a Gothic artist, in diametric contrast with Brunelleschi and DONATELLOas represe ...
among them are those in the Sassetti chapel, Sta. Trinità (scenes from the life of St. Francis; c. 1485) and in the choir of Sta ...
was also an able patristics scholar, publishing several edi- tions of the Church Fathers. Gilbert, Sir Humfrey (c. 1539–1583) En ...
Giotto (di Bondone) (c. 1267–1337) Italian painter Born near Florence, Giotto, above all his contemporaries, is credited with ef ...
spent most of his life at the papal court, where he acquired an intimate knowledge of its affairs. Clement VII made him bishop o ...
From about 1450 output included goblets, cups, and bowls of dark red, green, and blue glass, modeled on shapes used by contempor ...
Cloister, near Brussels, as a lay brother in 1475 and, in the same year, produced his master work, the PORTINARI AL- TARPIECE(se ...
anonymously in an anthology; a number of shorter poems were also anthologized later in Pedro Espinosa’s Flores de poetas ilustre ...
patrons of the arts and scholarship. Luigi was the first Gonzaga to become captain-general of Mantua (1328). His great-grandson ...
Gozzoli, Benozzo di Lese (1420–1497) Italian painter Celebrated as a painter of frescoes in the early Renais- sance, Gozzoli was ...
Granvelle, Cardinal Antoine Perrenot de (1517– 1586) Burgundian aristocrat and churchman He became bishop of Arras (1540), archb ...
originals. It was not until PETRARCH’s time that Greek began to be taught extensively in the West, though some 12th-century scho ...
Counter-Reformation was very great, many of its pupils becoming missionaries and teachers in northern Europe and the Far East. G ...
Grimani, Cardinal Domenico (1461–1523) Italian humanist and patron of the arts He was the son of Doge Antonio Grimani of Venice ...
commission from the states general resulted in De antiqui- tate reipublicae Bataviae (1610), justifying the revolt of the United ...
icae (1418), and translated into Latin PLUTARCH’s treatise on education. Guas, Juan (died 1496) Spanish architect and sculptor A ...
logical emphasis. Guicciardini’s other works include Storie fiorentine (written 1508–09; published 1859), a history of Florence ...
finally apprehended, condemned to the galleys, and re- pents. The novel is much longer than its predecessor, LAZARILLO DE TORMES ...
Hadrian VI See ADRIAN VI Hakluyt, Richard (c. 1552–1616) English geographer Born near London of a wealthy family, Hakluyt excell ...
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