Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
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Subject: Classical Studies
Edited by : Manfred Landfester
For the thinkers, artists and scholars of the Renaissance, antiquity was a major source of inspiration; it provided renewed modes of scholarship, led to corrections of received doctrine and proved a wellspring of new achievements in almost every area of human life. The 130 articles in this volume cover not only well known figures of the Renaissance such as Copernicus, Dürer, and Erasmus but also overall themes such as architecture, agriculture, economics, philosophy and philology as well as many others.
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For the thinkers, artists and scholars of the Renaissance, antiquity was a major source of inspiration; it provided renewed modes of scholarship, led to corrections of received doctrine and proved a wellspring of new achievements in almost every area of human life. The 130 articles in this volume cover not only well known figures of the Renaissance such as Copernicus, Dürer, and Erasmus but also overall themes such as architecture, agriculture, economics, philosophy and philology as well as many others.
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Michelangelo
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A. Education and careerThe Italian painter, sculptor, architect and poet M. di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese, the second of five children born into a family of the Florentine upper middle class. He died on February 18, 1564 at Rome and was buried in the church of Santa Croce in Florence.M. attended the Latin school in Florence from the age of just six (1481). At 13, he defied his father with his determination to become an artist, and entered the workshop of Domenico Ghirlandaio [12], where he learned the rudiments of draughtsmanship, coloration a…
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Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
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2016-11-24
Military literature and techniques
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Source:
Brill’s New Pauly Supplements II - Volume 8 : The Reception of Antiquity in Renaissance Humanism
Date:
2016-11-24