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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...e Ages]] and the start of the [[Modern Age]]. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the [[14th...
5: ...e in general. Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in two different but meaningful ways: A rebirth o...
7: ...xample of the blend of art and science during the Renaissance]]
9: ===Multiple Renaissances===
10: ...e [[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lumpers and splitters]]) - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
1: ...is a list of notable people associated with the [[Renaissance]].
5: *Italian Renaissance
181: * [[Johannes Kepler]]
198: * [[Johannes Kepler]]
245: ==Explorers and Navigators== - Harlem Renaissance (452 bytes)
2: The '''Harlem Renaissance''' was a flowering of African-American social tho...
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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
1: ...n from different [[premise]]s and approaches, examples of which include [[rationalism]] (through [[log...
7: ...d runs until roughly the late [[1400s]] and the [[Renaissance]]. The "Modern" is a word with more varied use, w...
12: ...ruth was no more than opinion and for teaching people to argue fallaciously to prove whatever conclusi...
14: ...thens had a direct [[democracy]]. It's known from Plato's writings that many sophists maintained schoo...
16: ...d truth. He wrote nothing, but inspired many disciples. He was executed in [[399 BCE]] on the charge t... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...s beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
4: ...ger-lasting 6th century Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wond...
6: ...either front or side facade. The [[16th-century]] Renaissance architect and theorist [[Vincenzo Scamozzi]] desi...
10: ...[Inigo Jones]] introduced a note of sobriety with plain Ionic columns on his [[Banqueting House at Whi...
12: ...ic order is articulated with triglyphs. Roman and Renaissance practice condensed the height of the entablature ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...ie, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless [[Renaissance]] artworks and books are destroyed.
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - Catherine II of Russia (9308 bytes)
2: ...] and [[Charles XIII of Sweden]], Catherine exemplified an "[[enlightened absolutism|enlightened mon...
11: ...se of the peasant revolt. This process reached completion in [[1775]]. The reform created provinces an...
17: ...bsburg]] League. When it became apparent that his plan could not succeed, Panin fell out of favor and ...
19: In [[1764]] Catherine placed [[Stanislaus II of Poland|Stanislaw Poniatows...
21: ...n Empire's European holdings after the Polish example, but achieved far less success. She annexed [[Cr... - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
15: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Birth'''<td>[[Stockholm]]
17: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Death'''<td>[[Rome]]
18: <tr valign=top><td>'''Place of Burial'''<td>[[St. Peter's Basilica]], [[Ro...
27: ...a prince would be trained. Even as a child she displayed a precociousness that astonished the brillian...
34: ...o be at the center of a scientific and artistic [[renaissance]]. - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
9: ...d English colonisation of [[North America]] took place under [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] an...
27: ...g [[Philip II of Spain]], she worried that the people might depose her and put Elizabeth on the throne...
31: ...er, and it is said that upon Mary's death, the people rejoiced in the streets.
33: ...lish service. She later persuaded her mother's chaplain, [[Matthew Parker]], to become Archbishop. He ...
37: ... were removed from the ecclesiastical bench and replaced by appointees who would submit to the Queen'... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...[1653]]) is today considered one of the most accomplished Early [[Baroque]] painters in the generation...
14: ..., had committed incest with his sister-in-law and planned to steal some of Orazio?s paintings. During ...
16: ...12]]-13), stored in the [[Capodimonte Museum of Naples]], is impressive for the violence portrayed, an...
18: ...tist from [[Florence]]. Shortly afterwards the couple moved to [[Florence]], where Artemisia received ...
20: ...urn to [[Rome]] in [[1621]] and later move to [[Naples]]. After her mother's death in [[1651]], Pruden... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...g the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]]. - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
26: * Renaissance-central.com [http://www.rencentral.com/oct_nov_vo... - Adam and Eve (8913 bytes)
15: ...pters two and three. After his creation, Adam was placed in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it, and to...
20: ...given eternal life. At the east of the garden God placed [[Cherubim]] and a flaming sword, which turne...
22: ...chpelah]] in [[Hebron]] as the traditional burial place of Adam and Eve.
36: ...nx in the human throat has been called [[Adam's apple]] because of a notion that it was caused by the ...
38: Some Biblical scholars have placed the Garden of Eden in what is now the [[Persi... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: Penny played the role of the wise-cracking brewery worker ...
32: *''[[Renaissance Man]]'' (1994) - Human brain (15406 bytes)
7: ...ally pronounced in the [[neocortex]], the most complex portion of the [[cerebral cortex]]. The human b...
15: ...of the brain. Brain stem structures are almost completely enveloped by the cerebellum and telencephalo...
19: The blood supply to the brain involves several [[artery|arteries]...
33: ...l. Emotive stability in humans is associated with planning, experience and an environment that is both...
36: ...s, but function of the human brain is far more complex. - Oil painting (1776 bytes)
3: ...ed in the traditional [[tempera]] paints. Many [[Renaissance]] sources credit northern European painters of th... - Renaissance (14795 bytes)
1: ...e Ages]] and the start of the [[Modern Age]]. The Renaissance is usually considered to have begun in the [[14th...
5: ...e in general. Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in two different but meaningful ways: A rebirth o...
7: ...xample of the blend of art and science during the Renaissance]]
9: ===Multiple Renaissances===
10: ...e [[periodization|periodisation]], [[Lumpers and splitters]]) - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...began with the discoveries of [[Johannes Kepler|Kepler]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], and others at t...
9: ...irely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. That is, at that tim...
15: *[[Ptolemy]]'s calculations of planetary motion. (This and Galen's anatomy, though ...
24: *Kepler's laws of planetary motion (Kepler)
33: ...beyond real dispute. If you measure what either Kepler or Galileo discovered against everything discov... - Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...ing, and the [[Humanism|humanist]] revival of the Renaissance in the [[15th century]] in [[Italy]], early [[16...
6: ...Germanic]] and later [[Slavic Peoples|Slavic]] peoples. The era of the migrations has historically bee...
8: ...ntagel]] in [[Cornwall]] had managed to obtain supplies of Mediterranean luxury goods well into the 6t...
12: ...conquerors were soon converted, following the example of the pagan Frank [[Clovis I]]. The interaction...
14: ...tianity or with classic Roman culture. Warrior people such as the [[Vikings]] were still capable of ca... - Sculpture (5545 bytes)
3: ...hrough arrangement and juxtaposition or by the simple designation of an object or even an act as sculp...
25: * [[plaster]]
33: * living [[plant]]s
77: ...elo Buonarroti]], [[Leonardo da Vinci]] and the [[Renaissance]] masters, to modern sculptors such as [[Henry Mo...
81: ...sculpture. This seems contrary to some famous examples of sculpture, including [[Marcel Duchamp]]'s [[... - History of sculpture (6101 bytes)
4: ... [[Willendorf]], [[Austria]], is a well-known example.
16: One of the earliest examples of Egyptian sculpture is the [[Narmer Palette|P...
20: Another example of Egyptian sculpture are the statues of the Pha...
27: ...ated lyre player from 2000 BC. Statues of a lute player and a harpist were found together in a single...
35: ...s like a three dimensional picture. A famous example of this is the Lion Gate in the outer wall of th... - Stained glass (3937 bytes)
9: ...in many different textures—smooth, wavy, rippled, hammered, pebbled, or very rough. These differ...
15: ...ittle innovation, stained glass underwent a major renaissance of form. The impetus for this new modern glass wa...
17: ...ersity's Master Craftsman Program who recently completed the world's largest secular stained-glass win...
32: ***Important examples of stained glass windows include [[Sainte-Chape...
33: ...rosperous [[Victorian era]] and many domestic examples survive, typically depicting birds and flowers.... - Illuminated manuscript (5973 bytes)
3: ...and time periods, they are the only surviving examples of painting.
5: ... please see [[List of Late Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts]].
7: ...ook at a modern undertaking in progress right now please see http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/
10: ...ated capital letter P in a Bible of 1407AD, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. The Bi...
13: ...l books: an altar Bible, for example. Wealthy people often had richly illuminated "[[book of hours|bo...
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