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Alberti, Leon Battista

David Marsh

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2012-06-26

Leon Battista Alberti Introduction Leon Battista Alberti (b. 1404–d. 1472), humanist and architect, was born in Genoa, the illegitimate son of...

Ariosto, Ludovico

Dennis Looney

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Ludovico Ariosto ...

Art in Renaissance Florence

Sarah Blake McHam

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2013-03-19

Art in Renaissance Florence Introduction Florence was a crucial locus for developments in Italian art throughout the peninsula in the period b...

Art in Renaissance Venice

Tom Nichols

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Art in Renaissance Venice Introduction This bibliography concentrates primarily on Venetian art and artists of the 15th and 16th centuries. In ...

Art, 16th- and 17th-Century Flemish

Koenraad Jonckheere

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

16th- and 17th-Century Flemish Art Introduction Seventeenth-century Flemish art is one of the highlights in Western art history. Although the ...

Art, 17th-Century Dutch

Christopher Atkins

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

17th-Century Dutch Art Introduction Artistic production in the long 17th century in the Dutch Republic radically reenvisioned the forms of vis...

Art, German

Jeffrey Chipps Smith

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

German Art Introduction German Renaissance art was vibrant, innovative, and at times powerfully emotional. “German,” as used here, refers to a...

Art, Spanish

Xanthe Brooke

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Spanish Art Introduction Most publications about the visual arts of the Iberian Peninsula have focused in the past on Spain’s so-called Golden ...

Artisans

James Farr

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Artisans Introduction The historiography of artisans and, to a lesser extent, apprentices in early modern Europe has experienced a renaissance...

Astrology, Alchemy, Magic

Sheila J. Rabin

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-06-29

Astrology, Alchemy, Magic Introduction Scientific developments in the early modern period have traditionally been called the “scientific revolut...

Austria

Joseph F. Patrouch

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Austria Introduction It is a challenge to define “Austria” in the 14th through the 17th centuries. On the one hand, the term refers to a geogr...

Bacon, Francis

Sarah Covington

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2012-10-25

Francis Bacon Introduction No one disputes the tremendous importance of Francis Bacon in the context of early modern natural, moral, and legal...

Banking and Money

Francesco Guidi Bruscoli

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2012-06-26

Banking and Money Introduction Economic historians have published widely on the “crisis of the 14th century.” Money supply and monetary circulat...

Baroque

Anne H. Muraoka

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2013-02-26

Baroque Introduction The Baroque is a name given to a style that dominated western Europe from the late 16th century to the mid-18th century (...

Black Death and Plague: The Disease and Medical Thought

Samuel Kline Cohn

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2010-05-10

Black Death and Plague: The Disease and Medical Thought Introduction The history of the Black Death constitutes one of the most interdiscipli...

Bohemia and Bohemian Crown Lands

James Palmitessa

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Bohemia and Bohemian Crown Lands Introduction “Bohemia” can refer to the Kingdom of Bohemia proper or, as a shortened form, to the Bohemian Cro...

Bracciolini, Poggio

Craig Kallendorf

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2012-06-26

Poggio Bracciolini Introduction Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini (b. 1380–d. 1459) is one of the more interesting of the early Italian humani...

Bruegel, Pieter the Elder

Nina Serebrennikov

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Pieter Bruegel the Elder Introduction Pieter Bruegel the Elder (b. c. 1526–d. 1569) is arguably the least-documented artist of stature in 16th-...

Bruni, Leonardo

Craig Kallendorf

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Leonardo Bruni Introduction Leonardo Bruni (b. 1370–d. 1444) is one of the most interesting and versatile of the early Italian humanists. Intel...

Buonarroti, Michelangelo

William Wallace

Subject: Renaissance and Reformation »

Date Added: 2011-08-26

Michelangelo Buonarroti Introduction Michelangelo Buonarroti (b. 1475–d. 1564) is universally recognized to be among the greatest artists of a...

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