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Many scholars see its beginnings in the early 16th century during the reign of Henry VIII. [2] Others argue the Renaissance was already present in England in the late 15th century. The English Renaissance is different from the Italian Renaissance in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music.
Anthony Salvin's Harlaxton Manor, 1837–1855, is an embodiment of Jacobethan architecture. The Jacobethan (/ ˌ dʒ æ k ə ˈ b iː θ ən / jak-ə-BEE-thən) architectural style, also known as Jacobean Revival, is the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, [1] which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English ...
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 – 30 July 1894) was an English essayist, art and literary critic, and fiction writer, regarded as one of the great stylists.His first and most often reprinted book, Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873), revised as The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (1877), in which he outlined his approach to art and advocated an ideal of the intense ...
[2] [3] The Roman papacy was split in two parts in Europe for decades (the so-called Western Schism), until the Council of Constance. The division of the Catholic Church and the unrest associated with the Hussite movement would become factors in the rise of the Protestant Reformation in the following century.
Sculpting The Renaissance will examine the Florentine artist’s ‘innovations, collaborations and inspirations’ within 15th century Italy.
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern (paperback edition: The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began [1]) is a 2011 book by Stephen Greenblatt and winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and 2011 National Book Award for Nonfiction. [2] [3] Greenblatt tells the story of how Poggio Bracciolini, a 15th-century papal emissary and ...
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Donald Trump's lawyers are urging the New York judge in his criminal hush money case to throw out his conviction based on unsworn allegations of "grave juror misconduct" that prosecutors have ...