Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

Aldrovandi, Ulisse (1522–1605) Italian natural historian The son of a wealthy Bolognese notary, Aldrovandi was educated at the u ...

Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia) (1431–1503) Pope (1492–1503) He was born at Xativa, Spain, studied law at Bologna, and was first a ...

ax^2 + bx + c = 0 where x is the unknown, and a,b,c, stand for given num- bers could not have been written before 1637. The equa ...

this scene, the figures are Italian in derivation; the artist copied engravings after MANTEGNAfrom as early as 1506. In the Berl ...

chester by the bishop of London. Here he soon made a name for himself as the champion of Calvinism in his de- bate with the mini ...

Amyot, Jacques (1513–1593) French bishop and classical scholar Born at Melun and educated at Paris university, he became profess ...

Pictorial Wit in the Seventeenth Century (New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 1978). anatomy Renaissance anatomi ...

now Uffizi, with fragments in situ) are among the most im- portant surviving Quattrocento secular decorations; Castagno and his ...

from Pavia, but is famous for his association with the MAJOLICAworks of Gubbio, where he was based from He held a monopoly in a ...

in his art”; in a poem by the 16th-century painter Gio- vanni Santi, the father of Raphael, he is mentioned along- side Fra Fili ...

eyes are sometimes inlaid in silver, as in the bronze bust of a young man in the J. Paul Getty Museum (c. 1520). antiquarianism ...

classical age as the highest point of civilization, followed by a thousand-year downward spiral until the beginnings of a reviva ...

derogatory, as is usual in the West today: “by ‘anti- semitism’ we mean all instances in which people, because they are labeled ...

tifs derived from van Eyck and Rogier van der WEYDEN. It is plausible that this picture was executed during an un- documented vi ...

1531 appearance of Halley’s comet. Apian was also the first to note that the tails of comets invariably point away from the sun. ...

to over 13,000. Aquaviva is honored for his work in help- ing to preserve the society’s Ignatian tradition during a time when Lo ...

two princes Musidorus and Pyrocles as they struggle to win their loves. Further reading: Reinhold Grimm and Jost Hermand (eds), ...

perimposed pilasters on its façade. These examples of early Renaissance architecture are characterized by a su- perficial applic ...

mastery and inventive talent. His grotesque oil paintings of symbolic figures composed of such objects as pieces of fruit, veget ...

generation of Greek teachers in the West who helped to encourage the revival of classical learning. Arias (y) Montano, Benito (1 ...