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19 ore fa · The rational austerity of the Renaissance, however, soon gave way to the more exuberant decoration of the baroque and, in time, to a revival of the Gothic. Beginning in the late 18th century, it became valued for its association with mystery, organic development, and the endurance of faith amid the rise of scientific rationalism.
4 giorni fa · A book about the role and depiction of saints in Renaissance Italy has been awarded a top award by the American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS). Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art, by Professor Diana Presciutti, received the AAIS Book Prize – Visual Studies, Film, and Media in recognition of its ...
3 giorni fa · The Renaissance period started during the crisis of the Late Middle Ages and conventionally ends by the 1600s with the waning of humanism, and the advents of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and in art the Baroque period.
3 giorni fa · Florence - Renaissance, Italy, Art: Florentia (“The Flourishing Town”) was founded in 59 bce as a colony for soldiers of the armies of Rome and was laid out as a rectangular garrison town (castrum) below the hilltop Etruscan town of Faesulae.
4 giorni fa · Italy - Renaissance, City-States, Papacy: The failure of the Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II and his successor kings of Sicily to dominate Italy in the course of the 13th century left the peninsula divided among a large number of effectively independent political units.
3 giorni fa · Italy - Renaissance, Art, Culture: Against this political and economic background stands the cultural development of Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries. The term Italian Renaissance has not gone unchallenged; its meaning and boundaries have aroused much controversy.
3 giorni fa · Old Archived Discussions on Specific Passages from Medieval & Renaissance Fencing Texts Moderators: Webmaster, Stacy Clifford
