Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

Child are noted for their depth of character and solidity of form, while 60 other panels depicting the life of Christ and the sa ...

three voices. Many use plainsong as a basis, and complex isorhythmic techniques are frequent. Some pieces are more declamatory, ...

drawings made available to him through his friend Willibald PIRCKHEIMER. Dürer’s engraved Small Horse (1505) utilizes Leonardo’s ...

tions. The first Dutch fleet to follow the Portuguese sea route to the East had sailed in 1595 under Cornelis HOUT- MAN, and alt ...

East India Company An English trading company granted a charter by Elizabeth I in 1600. Launched with £30,000 capital and a mono ...

Mühlhausen. From being a chorister at the Weimar court, he moved in 1571 to the Hofkapelle in Munich, where he was a pupil of LA ...

of the poorer classes mostly depended on small endow- ments given or left by the pious to parish churches. At this level provisi ...

worked in France, the Netherlands, and England in the early 16th century, wrote treatises on education, including the education ...

MANUTIUS(1505) and a Latin translation was published in Other early writers whose works on the ancient Egyptian mysteries were ...

John BULL, William BYRD, and Thomas MORLEY. The care- fully nurtured cult of Elizabeth as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen, was the so ...

1530, Elyot led embassies to Emperor Charles V in 1531 and 1535. In 1531 his first and most famous publication appeared, The Bok ...

Rome, serving as choirmaster under Alexander VI and Leo X. He was ordained in 1519 and went on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem where h ...

Vocabulary reflected the new linguistic consciousness and the new demands made upon the vernacular. An esti- mated 10,000 new wo ...

Spanish, which was published at Antwerp in 1543. This translation incurred the displeasure of Charles V because it was based on ...

Renaissance epic under the classical rules is Camões’ LU- SIAD, in which the excitement of Portugal’s imperial ad- venture in th ...

Constantine. Ambitious Renaissance leaders recognized the symbolic force of such a monument, seeing in the rider’s control over ...

uate of the Neapolitan Pignatelli school, consolidated and articulated the ethic of nobility and artistry in his own academy (es ...

An edition of Erasmus’s Opera omnia, edited by J. Le Clerc, in ten volumes (London, 1962), has an 11th vol- ume containing a fac ...

repr. 1999); Rosemarie Mulcahy, The Decoration of the Royal Basilica of El Escorial (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press ...

Robert’s Calvinist sympathies took him to Geneva in 1550, while his brother Charles (1504–64) continued printing in Paris. Charl ...