Some Educational Aspects in England in the 16th Century
Some Educational Aspects in England in the 16th Century Pacheco Lucas, Margarita (University of Extremadura – Cáceres) Proceedings of the II Conference of…
Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities – new exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi
Masterpieces by Botticelli, Beato Angelico, Piero del Pollaiolo, the Della Robbia family, Lorenzo di Credi and Memling – the cream of Renaissance artists…
War financing in the late-Medieval Crown of Aragon
War financing in the late-Medieval Crown of Aragon Kagay, Donald J. (Albany State University) The Journal of Medieval Military History, Volume 6 (2008)…
A clash of cultures: the legal difficulties of Bernat Metge (1396-1398) in a wider social context
A clash of cultures: the legal difficulties of Bernat Metge (1396-1398) in a wider social context Kagay, Donald J. (Albany State University) Paper…
The National Cost of Territorial Defense and Treason in Late Medieval Catalonia
This paper focuses on the Iberian state of Catalonia and its unique fiscal road to the battlefield during the fourteenth century.
‘… con uno inbasamento et ornamento alto’: The Rhetoric of the Pedestal c.1430 – 1550
‘… con uno inbasamento et ornamento alto’: The Rhetoric of the Pedestal c.1430 – 1550 By Alison Wright Art History, Volume 34, Issue…
Tradition and Originality in El Greco’s Work: His Synthesis of Byzantine and Renaissance Conceptions of Art
Tradition and Originality in El Greco’s Work: His Synthesis of Byzantine and Renaissance Conceptions of Art By Richard G. Mann Quidditas, Vol.23 (2002)…
MUSLIM AND JEWISH “OTHERNESS” IN THE SPANISH NATION-BUILDING PROCESS
MUSLIM AND JEWISH “OTHERNESS” IN THE SPANISH NATION-BUILDING PROCESS THROUGHOUT THE RECONQUISTA (1212-1614) TÜRKÇELİK, EVRİM M.A. Thesis (Science), Middle East Technical University, August…
Orthodoxy on Sale: The Last Byzantine and the Lost Crusade
Orthodoxy on Sale: The Last Byzantine and the Lost Crusade By Silvia Ronchey Proceedings of the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London,…
The Medici Bank and the World of Florentine Capitalism
The Medici bank is certainly the most suitable subject for such an investigation. More is known about it than about any other firm in Renaissance Florence.
“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal
“A Vile, Infamous, Diabolical Treaty”: The Franco-Ottoman Alliance of Francis I and the Eclipse of the Christendom Ideal Piccirillo, Anthony Carmen (Georgetown University)…
A Building Site in Early Sixteenth-Century Normandy: The Castle of Gaillon, Organization, Workers, Materials and Technologies
The castle of Gaillon, built in Normandy between 1498 and 1510 for cardinal Georges I d’Amboise, has been considered one of the first and most significant achievements of the early French Renaissance.
The Unifying Power of Moving Pictures in Late Medieval and Renaissance Umbria
The Unifying Power of Moving Pictures in Late Medieval and Renaissance Umbria RIHOUET, PASCALE (BROWN UNIVERSITY) Phd Thesis, Brown University (PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, (MAY…
Matthias Corvinus and His Library
Matthias Corvinus and His Library Stein, Rose Hungarian Studies Review, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (Spring 1986) Abstract Hungary in the fifteenth century was…
Cosimo’s four slaves
Cosimo’s four slaves Beck, James I Medici in Rete. Ricerca e progettualità scientifica a proposito dell’archivio Mediceo avanti il Principato, edited by Cotta, Irene, and…
Polskie kapele muzyczne średniowiecza i renesansu
Polskie kapele muzyczne średniowiecza i renesansu Wiśniewski, Ks. Piotr Wirtualnej Bilblioteki Społeczna (2007) Abstract Pod pojęciem kapela rozumiano w średniowieczu chór śpiewaków kościelnych, zarówno…
Make-Up as Understructure: Renaissance Cosmetics in Renaissance Self-Fashioning
Make-Up as Understructure: Renaissance Cosmetics in Renaissance Self-Fashioning By Michelle Laughran Paper presented at the Costume Society of America, Region 1 Annual Meeting…
Fruits and Vegetables as Sexual Metaphor in Late Renaissance Rome
Fruits and Vegetables as Sexual Metaphor in Late Renaissance Rome By John Varriano Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 5:4 (2005)…
THE BORGIAS: “NESSUNO (NOBODY)” – SE01 EP09
“NESSUNO (NOBODY)” In this week’s episode…. “Does the Pope of Rome disappoint Your Highness? Had you hoped for gold and silvervestments? Display has…
Italian Renaissance Food-Fashioning or The Triumph of Greens
Conceptions of food in the Renaissance were also still influenced by the humoral-Galenic theory, which said that to keep the different ‘humors’ of the body in balance, a good diet had to be the result of foods balancing the moist/water and the dry/air, the warm/fire and the cold/earth, recalling again the four Aristotelian elements.
Concepts of Childhood: What We Know and Where We Might Go
They have explored such issues, among others, as the varieties of European household structure; definitions of the stages of life; childbirth, wetnursing, and the role of the midwife; child abandonment and the foundling home; infanticide and its prosecution; apprenticeship, servitude, and fostering; the evolution of schooling; the consequences of religious diversification; and the impact of gender
Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb: The Definitive Michelangelo Sculpture
Michelangelo’s Moses of the Julius Tomb is one of the most powerful works from one of the most important artists of all time. Michelangelo is perhaps best known for the David.
THE BORGIAS: “THE ART OF WAR” – SE01 EP08
“THE ART OF WAR” In this week’s episode…. “I had a dream, my son…or, a nightmare. I dreamed that all of Italy had…
THE BORGIAS: “DEATH ON A PALE HORSE” – SE01 EP07
“Death On A Pale Horse” In this week’s episode…. The French decimate Lucca, and march on towards Florence while Della Rovere wrestles with…
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600
Complexio / Complexion. Categorizing Individual Natures 1250-1600 Groebner, Valentin The Moral Authority of Nature, The University of Chicago Press (2003) Abstract In an anecdote…