* Renovata Cythara: The Renaissance Cittern Pages

In 1999 the park was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and was added to " Ferrara, City of the Renaissance, and its Po Delta.

The province also contains two Renaissance cities, Úbeda and Baeza, both recently declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

An other major destination are the Châteaux of the Loire Valley, this World Heritage Site is noteworthy for the quality of its architectural heritage, in its historic towns such as Amboise, Angers, Blois, Chinon, Nantes, Orléans, Saumur, and Tours, but in particular for its castles ( châteaux ), such as the Châteaux d ' Amboise, de Chambord, d ' Ussé, de Villandry and Chenonceau, which illustrate to an exceptional degree the ideals of the French Renaissance.

Due to its history and architectural styles ranging from Renaissance to Mexican Baroque, the city was named a World Heritage Site in 1987.

Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro, a World Heritage Site notable for a remarkable historical legacy of independent Renaissance culture, especially under the patronage of Federico da Montefeltro, duke of Urbino from 1444 to 1482.

The old city of Trogir is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and contains a mixture of influence from the Hellenistic period, Romans, and Venetians with its Greek architecture, Romanesque churches, Renaissance and Baroque buildings.

Besides the monumental 17th century Renaissance chateau with an English-style park ( a rebuilding of original Gothic castle ), the most significant sight is the town square, a unique complex of long urban plaza with well-conserved Renaissance and Baroque houses with high gables and arcades ; since 1992 all of this has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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First published in Venice in 1499, in an elegant page layout, with refined woodcut illustrations in an Early Renaissance style, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which Poliphilo pursues his love Polia through a dreamlike landscape, and is, seemingly, at last reconciled with her by the Fountain of Venus.

This originated in Renaissance printing shops, where a title page would feature the printer's mark ( colophon ) near the bottom of the page, usually above the printer's name and city.

: The Italian Renaissance 1961, American Heritage, New York, ISBN 0-618-12738-0 ( page refs from 1978 UK Penguin edn ).

The I Tatti Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Harvard University Press, which aims to present important works of Italian Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf ( verso ), and an English translation on the facing page ( recto ).

* Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Princeton University Library ( page has a links to a pdf file of a facsimile of Garrett MS 125 )

* Wizards ' Official page for Chronicles and Renaissance

Dürer has never fallen from critical favour, and there have been revivals of interest in his works Germany in the Dürer Renaissance of about 1570 to 1630, in the early nineteenth century, and in German nationalism from 1870 to 1945.

These include from the time of the Great Chicago Fire to about 1900, what became known as the Chicago Literary Renaissance in the 1910s and early 1920s, and the period of the Great Depression through the 1940s.

The " Palestrina style " now serves as a basis for college Renaissance counterpoint classes, thanks in large part to the efforts of the 18th century composer and theorist Johann Joseph Fux, who, in a book called Gradus ad Parnassum ( Steps to Parnassus, 1725 ), set about codifying Palestrina's techniques as a pedagogical tool for students of composition.

At the end of the Renaissance the special doctrine considering being as such was named ontology and a corresponding doctrine about knowledge came under the name of epistemology or gnoseology.

As early as 1576, Edward de Vere was writing about this subject in his poem Loss of Good Name, which Professor Steven W. May described as " a defiant lyric without precedent in English Renaissance verse.

During the Renaissance secular political philosophy began to emerge after about a century of theological political thought in Europe.

There is debate about the extent to which the Renaissance improved on the culture of the Middle Ages.

Consensus among music historians – with notable dissent – has been to start the era around 1400, with the end of the medieval era, and close it around 1600, with the beginning of the Baroque period, therefore commencing the musical Renaissance about a hundred years after the beginning of the Renaissance as understood in other disciplines.

Renaissance painters traditionally began an apprenticeship with an established master at about the age of 12 ; Masaccio would likely have had to move to Florence to receive his training, but he was not documented in the city until he joined the painters guild ( the Arte de ' Medici e Speziali ) as an independent master on January 7, 1422, signing as " Masus S. Johannis Simonis pictor populi S. Nicholae de Florentia.

The basilica of Santa Maria Novella, with a Renaissance façade that was completed about 100 years after the Decameron was written.

The modern nineteen-line dual-refrain form of the villanelle derives from 19th-century admiration of the only Renaissance poem in that form: a poem about a turtledove titled " Villanelle " by Jean Passerat ( 1534 – 1602 ).

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies holdings fall into three main categories: rare books, most of which were printed before 1700 ( currently about 4, 000 titles ), modern books ( currently about 25, 000 volumes ), and microforms ( several thousand microfiches and reels ).

During the Renaissance in Europe, history was written about states or nations.

* The roots of European Scholasticism are found in this period, as the renewed spark of interest in literature and Classicism in Europe would bring about the Renaissance.

Within the very wide range of Eurasian decorative art that includes motifs matching this basic definition the term " arabesque " is used consistently as a technical term by art historians to describe only elements of the decoration found in two phases: Islamic art from about the 9th century onwards, and European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards.

The Italian Renaissance brought about a stricter interpretation of Aristotle, as this long-lost work came to light in the late 15th century.

Only a minority of the plays of English Renaissance theatre were ever printed ; of Heywood's 220 plays noted above, only about 20 were published in book form.

Byrd's output of about 470 compositions amply justifies his reputation as one of the great masters of European Renaissance music.

Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the Third Dynasty of Ur ( Sumerian Renaissance ) of the 21st to 20th centuries BC, but Akkadian also continued in use.

As Livorno's local museum housed only a sparse few paintings by the Italian Renaissance masters, the tales he had heard about the great works held in Florence intrigued him, and it was a source of considerable despair to him, in his sickened state, that he might never get the chance to view them in person.

In medieval and Renaissance polyphony between about 1250 and 1500, the tenor was the structurally fundamental ( or ' holding ') voice, vocal or instrumental.

His works were received enthusiastically by Renaissance scholars who were curious about pre-Christian history and legends.

Vandana Shiva appeared in a documentary film about the Dalai Lama, entitled Dalai Lama Renaissance ..

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

He travelled across the United States spreading the idea of Aesthetics in a speech called " The English Renaissance.

" The English Renaissance was, he said, " like the Italian Renaissance before it, a sort of rebirth of the spirit of man ".

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

Category: English Renaissance dramatists

It refers primarily to the erudite, shorter hexameter poems of the Hellenistic period and the similar works composed at Rome from the age of the neoterics ; to a lesser degree, the term includes some poems of the English Renaissance, particularly those influenced by Ovid.

* English in the British Isles until its consolidation as a national language in the Renaissance and the rise of Modern English ; subsequently internationally under the various states in or formerly in the British Empire ; globally since the victories of the predominantly English speaking countries ( United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others ) and their allies in the two world wars ending in 1918 ( World War I ) and 1945 ( WW II ) and the subsequent rise of the United States as a superpower and major cultural influence.

* English Renaissance

The work has been published in English as Courtly Dance of the Renaissance by Julia Sutton.

Florentine bankers financed the English kings during the Hundred Years War, as well as the papacy, including the construction of their provisional capital of Avignon and, after their return to Rome, the reconstruction and Renaissance embellishment of the latter.

Category: English Renaissance plays

Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

( The use of so-called Law French in English courts continued through the Renaissance, however.

Following a change in vowel pronunciation that marks the transition of English from the medieval to the Renaissance period, the language of the Chancery and Caxton became Early Modern English ( the language of Shakespeare's day ) and with relatively moderate changes eventually developed into the English language of today.

* 1944 – Annie Haslam, English singer-songwriter and painter ( Renaissance and Nevada )

John Dowland ( 1563 – buried 20 February 1626 ) was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist.

The result has been termed an English " Renaissance palace ".

Female homoeroticism, however, was so common in English literature and theater that historians suggest it was fashionable for a period during the Renaissance.

Category: English Renaissance plays

* 1943 – Keith Relf, English musician ( The Yardbirds, Renaissance, and Armaggedon ) ( d. 1976 )