Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

Eurydice episode as a fable of the proximity of love and death in the experience of religious initiates. The Orpheus legend, of ...

He also wrote in Polish on the benefits of theocracy (1563, 1564). His history of Poland from the reign of Sigismund I was publi ...

to Spain in 1545. As official historian of the enterprise of the Indies, he wrote his vast Historia general y natural de las Ind ...

Pacheco, Francisco (1564–1654) Spanish painter and art theorist Pacheco was born at Sanlúcar de Barrameda, but when still young ...

the needs of commerce and consequently devoted consid- erable space to the application of the new arithmetic to book-keeping and ...

ventions unknown to the ancients. It must be stressed that, while the revival of classical form and content was central to the R ...

Some great northern painters, principally Michael PACHER, Jean FOUQUET, and JUSTUS OF GHENT, visited Italy during the 15th centu ...

herited territories. Both office and territories passed to a branch of the Bavarian Wittelbachs, who were confirmed as counts pa ...

cient buildings there; his findings were published as the treatise Le antichità di Roma (1554). (Two years after this publicatio ...

Venetian painting at that time. Palma increasingly rivaled Tintoretto and became the dominant figure in Venice after the latter’ ...

the Roman authority Celsus. His main innovation in- volved the adoption of such therapeutic drugs as mercury and antimony rather ...

nouncing the Mass led to the first persecution of French Protestants (HUGUENOTS). Although French Protestants held their first s ...

Parr, Catherine (1512–1548) English queen, sixth wife of Henry VIII Catherine married HENRY VIIIreluctantly in 1543; already twi ...

d’Este, and Piero de’ Medici among his patrons. Notable examples of his work in various genres are the illumina- tions for Piero ...

known novel in this kind is Honoré D’URFÉ’s L’ Astrée (1607–27). Besides plays, pastoral also had its uses in court en- tertainm ...

patronage In considering the cultural bond linking cre- ative artists and the grandees who supported them, the Renaissance looke ...

through papal patronage cardinal deacon (1493), bishop of Parma (1509), and papal legate to the Lateran Council (1512). Despite ...

the Swabian peasants demanded not only the abolition of serfdom and the remission of certain taxes, but also the freedom to elec ...

with the librettist Ottavio Rinuccini, for producing the first opera, Dafne (c. 1597). Although this work is now lost, it is kno ...

in su (below to above) situated the viewer’s eye below the ground line of the pictorial space in an extreme form of foreshorteni ...