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  2. Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The term rinascita ("rebirth") first appeared in Lives of the Artists (c. 1550) by Giorgio Vasari, while the corresponding French word renaissance was adopted into English as the term for this period during the 1830s. [4] [b] The Renaissance's intellectual basis was founded in its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman humanitas ...

  3. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).

  4. List of French artistic movements - Wikipedia

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    The École de Fontainebleau was two periods of artistic production during the Renaissance centered on the Château of Fontainebleau. First School (from 1531) Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo de' Rossi) (1494–1540) (Italian) Francesco Primaticcio (c.1505–1570) (Italian) Niccolò dell'Abbate (c.1509–1571) Second School (from 1590s)

  5. List of Renaissance figures - Wikipedia

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    Leonardo da Vinci, the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the Renaissance. Artists and architects ...

  6. Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia

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    Encyclopedias and dictionaries also became more popular during the Age of Enlightenment as the number of educated consumers who could afford such texts began to multiply. [217] In the latter half of the 18th century, the number of dictionaries and encyclopedias published by decade increased from 63 between 1760 and 1769 to approximately 148 in ...

  7. Periods in Western art history - Wikipedia

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    Note: The countries listed are the country in which the movement or group started. Most modern art movements were international in scope. Impressionism – 1860 – 1890, France American Impressionism – 1880, United States; Cos Cob Art Colony – 1890s, United States Heidelberg School – late 1880s, Australia; Luminism (Impressionism)

  8. The Most Popular Names Every Decade Since the 1880s - AOL

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    The list of the most popular boy names during the 1880s looks a lot like a list of royal lineage if you ask us, and John's reign was just getting started. W. Efatz / Wikimedia Commons.

  9. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    A 19th-century (ca. 1800 to 1860) movement emphasizing emotion and imagination, rather than logic and scientific thought. Response to the Enlightenment [ 36 ] Jean Paul , Novalis , Washington Irving , Lord Byron , Mary Shelley , Alexander Pushkin , Victor Hugo , Nathaniel Hawthorne , Camilo Castelo Branco , Adam Mickiewicz , José de Alencar