The Renaissance
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THE RENAISSANCE ...
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THE RENAISSANCE by Tom Streissguth Konrad Eisenbichler,Consulting Editor ...
Christine Nasso,Publisher Elizabeth Des Chenes,Managing Editor © 2008 Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning. Star l ...
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Preface .............................................. Intronati, etc.) ................................... academies (Fiorenti ...
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Preface .............................................. On May 20, 1347, a small band of people gathered in the streets of Rome. ...
others had been copied down and pre- served. Most of these books were written in Latin, the language of ancient Rome that still ...
ing. Books circulated widely in towns among aristocrats and members of the middle class. The works of an Italian au- thor could ...
remaining the most powerful institution in Europe. The church offered eternal life to believers and threatened eternal damna- ti ...
Renaissance art and humanism spread to the rest of Europe through the sixteenth century. The French kings Charles VIII and Franc ...
Netherlands, for instance, Jan van Eyck and others began using oil-based paints as a medium and stretched canvas as a sur- face— ...
powerful influence on artists of the twenty- first century. The Renaissance patron be- came a paradigm for collectors and con- n ...
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academies Italian humanists and scholars revived the ancient Greek academy beginning in the middle of the fifteenth century. The ...
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