Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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Daddi, Bernardo (active 1290–c. 1349) Italian painter A gifted pupil of GIOTTO, Daddi absorbed the seriousness of his master and ...

vising in all matters of posture, deportment, and etiquette. The dancing masters published the first scholarly treatises on danc ...

an energetic leaping dance of French peasant origin. In Spain there was a particularly wide range of regional folk styles, and t ...

refuge with Cangrande DELLA SCALAin Verona and finally with Guido da Polenta in Ravenna, where he died. The Vita Nuova (New Life ...

fording an unparalleled insight into the life and values of a wealthy bourgeois in 14th-century Italy. Further reading: Iris Ori ...

that of patient Griselda, the archetypal submissive wife, being retold in many different forms in several languages. However, de ...

himself to writing (1551–55). He was recalled by Pope Paul IV and made Vatican secretary of state a year before his death. The P ...

Cantorie: the luminous colors and lucid, Renaissance compositions of Luca’s terracottas enhance their readabil- ity in the dark ...

the latter only the first part of a projected nine appeared. He designed the tomb of Francis I at St-Denis (1547), and also unde ...

executed between 1515 and 1520. Many of his works dwell on the morbid subjects of ghosts and death, as in the case of his best w ...

ordinary soldier, his Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana (The true history of the conquest of New Spain; 1632 ...

achieve a religious accommodation that would enable Western and Eastern Christendom to present a united front against the advanc ...

demonstrator while the anatomist himself merely read from a supposedly authoritative text. Given the conditions under which they ...

Dodoens, Rembert (1517–1585) Flemish physician and botanist His Crūÿdeboeck (1554) owes much to Leonhart FUCHS’s herbal, includi ...

Gothic beginnings (e.g. the marble David; now Bargello, Florence), via a transitional statue, St. John the Evangelist, for the c ...

and long interpolated tales. Part II (74 chapters), which Cervantes hastily completed because an unknown author (“Alonso Fernánd ...

Douglas, Gavin (c. 1474–1522) Scottish churchman and poet The son of the fifth earl of Angus, Douglas studied at St. Andrews Uni ...

period of transition, however, Grassi’s revolutionary stud- ies from life merely became models themselves for his contemporaries ...

“Ballad of Agincourt” (c. 1605) and he devoted many years to his principal work, the topographical epic Poly- Olbion (1622), wri ...