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2. Themes in Italian Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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   This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo 's Last Judgement of the 1530s.

3. List of pirates - Wikipedia

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   A pirate and slave trader active in the Caribbean and the Red Sea in the late 1690s. Robert Glover: d. 1698 1693–1698 Ireland / Colonial America An Irish-American pirate active in the Red Sea area in the late 1690s. Christopher Goffe? 1683–1691 Colonial America A pirate and privateer active in the Red Sea and the Caribbean. He was ...

4. Renaissance illumination - Wikipedia

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   Giulio Clovio, Adoration of the Magi.Double page from the Book of Hours of Cardinal Farnese, 1537–1546, Pierpont Morgan Library, M.69 (fols. 38v-39).. Renaissance illumination refers to the production of illuminated manuscripts in Western Europe in the late 15th and 16th centuries, influenced by the representational techniques and motifs of Renaissance painting.

5. Pirates in the arts and popular culture - Wikipedia

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   Engraving of the English pirate Blackbeard from the 1724 book A General History of the Pyrates Pirates fight over treasure in a 1911 Howard Pyle illustration.. In English-speaking popular culture, the modern pirate stereotype owes its attributes mostly to the imagined tradition of the 18th-century Caribbean pirate sailing off the Spanish Main and to such celebrated 20th-century depictions as ...

6. Golden Age of Piracy - Wikipedia

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   Most pirates in this era were of Welsh, English, Dutch, Irish, and French origin. Many pirates came from poorer urban areas in search of a way to make money and of reprieve. London in particular was known for high unemployment, crowding, and poverty which drove people to piracy. Piracy also offered power and quick riches. [citation needed]

7. Moby-Dick - Wikipedia

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   Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 epic novel by American writer Herman Melville.The book is centered on the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the maniacal quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for vengeance against Moby Dick, the giant white sperm whale that bit off his leg on the ship's previous voyage.

8. Saint Jerome in His Study (Antonello da Messina) - Wikipedia

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   Saint Jerome in His Study is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Antonello da Messina. The painting depicts human, natural, and divine knowledge, and is filled with architectural qualities. The painting depicts human, natural, and divine knowledge, and is filled with architectural qualities.

9. Florentine Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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   The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th. This new figurative language was linked to a new way of thinking about humankind and the world around it, based on the local culture and humanism already highlighted ...