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Index Of Renaissance Articles
This is an alphabetical index of articles related to the Renaissance. 0-9 1400s in art = 1500 in art A Académie de musique et de poésie - Accademia degli Infiammati - Accademia Filarmonica di Verona - Accademia Fiorentina - Age of Discovery - Air de cour - Aldine Press - Allegory in Renaissance literature - Allemande - Almain rivet - Andalusian cadence - Antwerp Mannerism - Antwerp school - Arquebus - Ars historica - Art patronage of Julius II - Artists of the Tudor court B Ballo - Baluster - Bardini Gardens - Basse danse - Bastion fort - Bicinium - Bolognese School - Bolognese Swordsmanship - Bonfire of the vanities - Brancacci Chapel - Branchwork - Brick Renaissance - Broken consort - Brussels tapestry - Burgonet - Burgundian School C Camera degli Sposi - Canary dance - Cangiante - Cantore al liuto - Capriccio (art) - ''Carmen figuratum'' - Carnival song - Carracks black sword - Catherine de' Medici's building projects - Catherine de' Medici's court festivals - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) , from , with the same meanings. is a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries, characterized by an effort to revive and surpass ideas and achievements of classical antiquity. It occurred after the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages and was associated with great social change. In addition to the standard periodization, proponents of a "long Renaissance" may put its beginning in the 14th century and its end in the 17th century. The traditional view focuses more on the early modern aspects of the Renaissance and argues that it was a break from the past, but many historians today focus more on its medieval aspects and argue that it was an extension of the Middle Ages. However, the beginnings of the period – the early Renaissance of the 15th century and the Italian Proto-Renaissance from around 1250 or 1300 – overlap considerably with the Late Middle Ages, conventionally da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ars Historica
''Ars Historica'' was a genre of Renaissance humanism, humanist historiography in the later Renaissance. It produced a small library of treatises underscoring the stylistic aspects of writing history as a work of art, but also introducing the contributions of philology and textual criticism in its precepts and evaluations. Background At the summit of his ''ars oratoria'' Cicero had celebrated history as the ''magistra vitae''. In his ''De Oratore'' he proposed history as the summit of ''ars rhetorica'', the rhetorical culture in which eloquence is at the service of the truth of human experience. Within the context of the rhetorical culture of humanism, the ''ars historica'' was an attempt to introduce critical and scholarly criteria into historical literature. Its significance was great during the period of confessional struggle between Protestants and Catholics in the later sixteenth century. In addition to the examples of the classical historians (Herodotus and Thucydides, L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
