Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

ology is demonstrated in his works of biblical exegesis and he also made an influential prose translation of the psalms, Psałter ...

(1600–14) by the naturalism of CARAVAGGIO, he soon de- veloped his own style in the Renaissance tradition of RAPHAEL. His classi ...

of French and Italian idiom. Abraham Fraunce’s Arca- dian Rhetorike (1588) follows the Ramist approach in Eng- lish and draws it ...

than attempting to inflict alien values on confused or re- sistant proselytes. Ricci also impressed the Chinese with many Europe ...

Rienzo, Cola di (Nicolà di Rienzo) (c. 1313–1354) Italian populist leader who tried to restore the greatness of Rome Rienzo summ ...

barked on a 30-year military career, during which she con- tinued to paint. As soldier and bandit, she was in the ser- vice of a ...

cial basis was secured by the local alum deposits and banking. It was during the early 16th century that the efforts of JULIUS I ...

race, and PETRARCH; his Bocage (1554) and Continuation des Amours (1555) were inspired by the Greek poet Anacreon and the Hymnes ...

pupils included Fra BARTOLOMMEOand PIERO DI COSIMO. He produced a number of fairly pedestrian works himself, including frescoes ...

in 1603 when he presented a number of paintings to Philip III of Spain on behalf of Vincenzo Gonzaga, after which he returned to ...

Further reading: Svetlana Alper, The Making of Rubens (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995); Kristin Lohse Belkin, Rub ...

is known, Rueda was born in Seville and as a youth joined a troupe of wandering actors performing at inns or other venues permit ...

Sabellico, Marcantonio (Marcantonio Coccio) (c. 1436–1506) Italian humanist scholar and historian He lived and worked in Venice, ...

painted or because the picture’s donor had a special devo- tion toward them. They may be depicted as absorbed in meditation or s ...

missioned BRAMANTEto design a new church over the tomb of St. Peter. The new building, often called New St. Peter’s, was origina ...

Thought of Coluccio Salutati (Durham, N.C.: Duke Univer- sity Press, 1983). Salviati, Francesco (Il Cecchino) (1510–1563) Italia ...

emy, taking the academic name Actius Syncerus. King Federico also recognized his erudition, giving him the Villa Mergellina in 1 ...

enced by the Roman masters and by antiquity, before re- turning to settle in Florence. VASARIsays that he painted in the Belvede ...

nacular poetry is only middling and popular ballads are lowest in rank). Despite this judgment, his own most memorable verses ar ...

Ménippée is attributable not only to its literary merit but also to its strategic publication at the moment of the league’s fina ...