Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

Bellano, Bartolommeo (c. 1440–96/97) Italian sculptor Born at Padua, the son of a goldsmith, Bellano is first doc- umented in 14 ...

(Accademia, Venice), Christ on the Cross (Museo Civico, Verona), and two Madonnas (Lovere and Brera, Milan). Ja- copo is best kn ...

Benedetto da Maiano (1442–1497) Italian sculptor A member of a notable artistic family of Florence, Benedetto trained as a stone ...

published posthumously in 1541, contains interpolated stanzas of Berni’s own. Although much lauded by contem- poraries, Berni’s ...

Henrietta Maria’s marriage (1625) to Charles I of England, concluded the treaty of Monzon (1626), and was instru- mental in the ...

brew Bible in this period was the Antwerp Polyglot (1568–73) printed by PLANTIN. The edition of ERASMUS(1516), with a parallel L ...

was produced by CASTELLIOin the late 1540s to save learned Protestants from the necessity of using the Vulgate. Further reading: ...

by his son-in-law William Roper (1496–1578) and be- tween 1554 and 1557 George Cavendish (c. 1500– c. 1561) wrote his Life and D ...

including his own four sons. Apart from a brief sojourn in Amsterdam (1591–93), when his father was appointed city architect the ...

During the period of the Decameron’s composition Boccac- cio received a series of appointments as ambassador, and in 1351 he was ...

Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1441–1494) Italian poet and courtier Born at Scandiano, of which he became count, member of a prominent F ...

Bontemps, Pierre (c. 1507–1568) French sculptor Assistant to PRIMATICCIOat FONTAINEBLEAU, Bontemps is best known for his work on ...

pleased both Catholic traditionalists and Protestant inno- vators. The second edition of 1552 went further towards Protestantism ...

Borgia, Lucrezia (1480–1519) Italian noblewoman The daughter of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope ALEXANDER VI) and Vanozza Catanei, Lucrezia ...

pair with a lost Seven Sacraments, depicts the Sins in a cir- cular narrative strip with a circular painting of the Man of Sorro ...

manuscript of the latter’s De materia medica, made about 512, was rediscovered in Constantinople in the mid-16th century and sol ...

Botero, Giovanni (1544–1617) Italian political theorist Botero was born in Cuneo, Piedmont, and was sent to a Jesuit seminary in ...

enfants en France (1625) and Receuil des secrets de Louise Bourgeois (1635). Bourgeois, Loys (c. 1510/15–c. 1560) French compose ...

Brahe, Tycho (1546–1601) Danish astronomer The first important observational astronomer of modern times, Brahe was born at Knuds ...

Brahe died long before the work could be completed, it was finally published in 1627 by Kepler as the Rudolfine Tables. At a mor ...