Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

Lamb, Adoration of theSee GHENT ALTARPIECE Lambert, Francis (1486–1530) French-born religious reformer The son of a papal offici ...

military career in Discours politiques et militaires (1587), a patriotic account of France’s problems, advocating recon- ciliati ...

principles are expounded. Of his prose comedies, Le Né- gromant is a translation from Ariosto. Latin studies Throughout the Midd ...

to Michelangelo’s designs. The library’s staircase was com- pleted by Bartolommeo AMMANATIand Giorgio VASARIin Among the librar ...

Leland, John (c. 1506–1552) English antiquary and poet Leland was born in London and educated there at St. Paul’s School and at ...

deft handling of color and brush. Other early works tradi- tionally attributed to Leonardo include the Annunciation (c. 1474; Uf ...

Clark, Leonardo da Vinci (London: Penguin, rev. ed. 1993); Charles Gibbs-Smith and Gareth Rees, The Inventions of Leonardo da Vi ...

count in Histoire d’un voyage faict en la terre du Brésil, autrement dite Amerique (1578), which may have influ- enced MONTAIGNE ...

tions of the case for religious toleration. With the resump- tion of the Wars of RELIGIONin 1567 CATHERINE DE’ MEDICI lost confi ...

tige: PHILIP THE GOODof Burgundy, for instance, believing he could trace his descent from the Trojans, owned no fewer than 17 ma ...

Nuti in 1447–52, which survives with its original furni- ture intact. Books were stored on shelves below or above the reading su ...

brary of Renaissance Florence: Niccolò Niccoli, Cosimo de’ Medici and the Library of San Marco (Padua, Italy: An- tenore, 1972). ...

ration of the Magi (completed 1496; Uffizi, Florence), which LEONARDO DA VINCI had begun in 1481 for the monks of San Donato a S ...

gests that the owner was in a position to read it, and among Protestants too poor to possess more than just one book a Bible in ...

largely retaining the sacramental and ceremonial character of the Mass. CALVIN’s innovations were much more drastic, emphasizing ...

Lollards A derogatory name for the English followers of John WYCLIF; first recorded in 1382, it is thought to derive from a word ...

included the effigy and tomb of Dante in Ravenna (1482), the Zanetti tomb in Treviso cathedral (1485), and the Palazzo Vendramin ...

dominant influence is that of GIOTTO. His earliest dated work, the Madonna and Child (1319) at Vico l’Abate, near Florence, illu ...

Louvre, the The national art gallery and museum of France. Built on the right bank of the Seine in Paris on the site of a former ...

father Huygh Jacobsz. and by Cornelis Engebrechtsz., his earliest surviving painting, The Chess Players (before 1508; Berlin) ha ...