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- Renaissance (14795 bytes)
10: ...ce]]." Both of these concepts are now widely accepted by the scholarly community at large; as a resul...
21: ... and Greek Latin heritage through ancient manuscripts and the humanist method of learning. These new i...
30: ...republican ideals of [[Athens]] and [[Rome]]. Sculptors used Roman models and classical themes. This s...
34: ... were being sculpted. Often biblically-themed sculpture and paintings included recognizable Florentine...
40: ...dici]] did it—the [[portrait]] and solo sculpture emerged, especially under [[Lorenzo de' Medici... - Age of Exploration (14467 bytes)
18: ...naging to push a few miles further south and in [[1434]] the obstacle of [[Cape Bojador]] was overcome. ...
33: ... The combined empires were simply too big to be kept unchallenged, and to resist those challenges.
35: ...remained in Portuguese possession. The Dutch attempted to conquer Brazil, and at one time controlled a... - Portugal (61755 bytes)
31: ...nding loss of independence to Castile was not accepted by the majority of the Portuguese people, which...
40: In [[1418]] two captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, were driven by...
42: In [[1434]], [[Gil Eanes]] rounded [[Cape Bojador]], south ...
85: ...l Europe during Napoleon's era. The alliance is kept through [[NATO]], a military organisation in whic...
93: ... mainland Portugal. Download an [http://www.igeoe.pt/downloads/500mil/500mil_24bits2.zip official map]... - Donatello (10376 bytes)
4: ...mous [[Florence|Florentine]] [[artist]] and [[sculptor]] of the Early [[Renaissance]].
7: ...of the spirit of this era in architecture and sculpture and exercised a potent influence upon the pain...
10: ...sm in rendering the human form and his first attempt at carving the nude. It is reputed that this cruc...
14: ...tion with Giovanni di Bartolo, ''Saint John the Baptist'', ''Habakkuk'' (the statue is also called ''Z...
16: ...atic narration and the ability to express great depth and space, which was to find its mature expressi... - Jan van Eyck (7234 bytes)
1: ...umb|250px|''[[The Arnolfini Portrait]]'', painted 1434]]
3: ...[oil painting|oil paint]]. It is a common misconception that van Eyck invented oil paint, but it is tr...
24: ...cks were not familiar, we find such delicate perceptions of gradations in tone, such atmosphere, yet s...
26: ...ations display no further progress, unless we accept as progress a more searching delicacy of finish, ...
28: ...he [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]] (1434), in which a rare insight into the detail of anim... - Florence (11538 bytes)
1: ... the kingdom of Italy. Florence was long ruled ([[1434]]-[[1494]], [[1512]]-[[1527]] and [[1530]]-[[1737...
23: ...ression, the city came under the sway ([[1382]]-[[1434]]) of the [[Albizzi]] family, bitter rivals of th...
27: ...insight was [[Niccolchiavelli]], whose prescriptions for Florence's regeneration under strong lead...
34: ...he authorities who knew the flood was coming, except a phone call to the jewellers on the Ponte Vecchi...
38: ...ccupation with money and with [[conspicuous consumption|the display of wealth and leisure]]. - Henry the Navigator (6878 bytes)
9: ...geographic knowledge for Henry, a position he accepted. The nearby port of [[Lagos, Portugal|Lagos]] ...
15: ...me the first European known to pass the cape in [[1434]].
19: ...d Henry's younger brother Fernando and held him captive until his death eleven years later. Henry's m... - March 19 (9902 bytes)
32: ...televangelist]] [[Jim Bakker]] resigns from the [[PTL]].
40: *[[1434]] - [[Ashikaga Yoshikatsu]], Japanese shogun (b. ... - Rome (33048 bytes)
45: ...lupa'', a word also meaning "prostitute") that adopted and suckled the cognately-named twins ''Rom''ul...
61: ...o passed on elements of Greek culture they had adopted such as the Western version of the Greek [[alph...
76: ...[Eastern Roman Empire]], under [[Justinian I]], captured the city in [[536]].
78: ...9]]. Belisarius was replaced by [[Narses]], who captured Rome from the Ostrogoths for good in [[552]].
84: ... of the Lombards under [[Alboin]] ([[568]]). By capturing the regions of [[Benevento]], [[Lombardy]], ...
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