The Renaissance
German armies played an important role, also served to spread Italian fashion and material to northern Europe. Throughout Europe ...
plified the color and cut of clothing as well, and in some regions banished color altogether in favor of simple, unorna- mented ...
Colonna, Vittoria .............................. (1490–1547) Italian poet and noblewoman, a significant friend and patron of Ren ...
phers, however, Columbus underestimated the circumference of the earth, a mistake that led him to the false notion that the west ...
The first expedition of three small ships set out in August 1492, taking five weeks to sail from the Canary Islands to a small i ...
the misadventures of two lovers who were continually frustrated in their desire for marriage and respectability. The plays, know ...
members. Most confraternities were made up of urbanites who belonged to a grow- ing middle class of merchants and arti- sans. In ...
joined the household of his uncle, a local bishop, who saw to Nicolaus’s upbringing and education. Nicolaus attended the uni- ve ...
this subject, although effective, have been completely overlooked by his astronomy. Copernicus’s ideas were spreading throughout ...
San Giovanni Evangelista. The dome painting—known asThe Vision of St. John the Evangelist on Patmos—shows Christ and other figur ...
sixteen horses for the Mexican coast. On reaching land, he promptly burned his ships to end any idea among his men of retreating ...
he had conquered, but came down with dysentery and died in Seville before his ship set sail. SEEALSO: Columbus, Christopher; exp ...
1437 the council was moved to Ferrara, Italy, where it began meeting again in 1438. SEEALSO: Council of Constance Council of Con ...
bishops, archbishops, and papal legates (representatives), who convened to make decisions on church doctrine and cer- emony and ...
husbands. If they were single, their careers sometimes ended when their customers arranged their marriage—or took them as wives ...
Frederick Praying Before the Madonna,as among his best work. He produced wood- cut engravings for the first German edi- tion of ...
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da Gama, Vasco (ca. 1469–1524) A Portuguese explorer, da Gama lived at a time when this small kingdom at the southwestern edge o ...
olina Chapel in the Vatican. After Rome was occupied and sacked by the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor in 1527, San- gallo left ...
de Poitiers, Diane .............................. (1499–1566) A famous consort of the French king Henri II, Diane de Poitiers wa ...
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