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Jacob Obrecht, Composer
Jacob Obrecht was one of the primary composers responsible for significant changes in musical style during the late fifteenth century. He was especially important to the... |
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Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam was a Dutch humanist and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a "pure" Latin style. Although Erasmus remained a Roman... |
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Niccolò Machiavelli
In 1498, Niccolò Machiavelli began his career as an active politician in the independent city-state of Florence, engaging in diplomatic missions through France and German... |
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Albrecht Durer
Albrecht Duerer was without doubt the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance. Living in Nuremberg, half-way between the Netherlands and Italy, he found inspiration i... |
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Copernicus, Earth moves around the Sun
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal b... |
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Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua
Isabella d'Este was marchesa of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance and a major cultural and political figure. Isabella d'Este was well-educate... |
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
He is one of the greatest artists of all time, a man whose name has become synonymous with the word "masterpiece": Michelangelo Buonarroti. As an artist he was unmatched,... |
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Raphael
Raphael, Italian painter and architect. He was the youngest of the three giants of the High Renaissance. Raphael is best known for his Madonnas and for his large figure... |
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Titian
Titian or Tiziano Vecellio was born in a small alpine village of Pieve di Cadore, now not far from the Austrian border, where his family lived for many years. In about 14... |
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Rabelais, Writer Gargantua & Pantagruel
François Rabelais, French writer, priest, humanist, doctor. His fame rests on the five comic novels (one of doubtful authenticity) known collectively as Gargantua and Pan... |
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Jan van Scorel, Dutch Painter
Jan van Scorel was an influential Dutch painter credited with the introduction of High Italian Renaissance art to the Netherlands. It is not known whether he began his st... |
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Hans Holbein, the Younger
Hans Holbein the Younger, Painter, born in Augsburg, Bavaria. Hans received his first lessons in art from his father (The Elder). In 1515 the younger Holbein went to Base... |
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The Last Supper, Da Vinci
Da Vinci's Last Supper has become one of the most widely appreciated masterpieces in the world. It began to acquire its unique reputation immediately after it was finis... |
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National Museum of American History
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History of Photography Timeline
Camera obscuras, used to form images on walls in darkened rooms... |
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