The concept of style as developed in ancient rhetoric remained present throughout the European Middle Ages. The word derives from the Latin stilus (way of writing; originally “stylus” for writing). Beginning in the 15th century, the reception of classical antiquity in Renaissance Humanism also made style, in the sense of a totality of formal qualities, a subject of increasing interest in art, literature, and music (Antiquity, reception of). The term describes formal qualities as …