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  2. Gioseffo Zarlino - Wikipedia

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    Gioseffo Zarlino (31 January or 22 March 1517 – 4 February 1590) was an Italian music theorist and composer of the Renaissance. He made a large contribution to the theory of counterpoint as well as to musical tuning.

  3. Counter-Maniera - Wikipedia

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    Girolamo Siciolante da Sermoneta, Annunciation Santi di Tito, Vision of St Thomas Aquinas (1593) [1] Lamentation, Scipione Pulzone, 1593. Counter-Maniera or Counter-Mannerism (variously capitalized and part-italicized) is a term in art history for a trend identified by some art historians in 16th-century Italian painting that forms a sub-category or phase of Mannerism, the dominant movement in ...

  4. List of Renaissance figures - Wikipedia

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    1 Artists and architects. 2 Mathematicians. 3 Writers. 4 Philosophers. ... the archetype of the Renaissance man. This is a list of notable people associated with the ...

  5. Renaissance art - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]

  6. Musical improvisation - Wikipedia

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    Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, improvised counterpoint over a cantus firmus (a practice found both in church music and in popular dance music) constituted a part of every musician's education, and is regarded as the most important kind of unwritten music before the Baroque period.

  7. List of avant-garde artists - Wikipedia

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    Pablo Picasso 1962. Avant-garde (French pronunciation: [avɑ̃ ɡaʁd]) is French for "vanguard". [1] The term is commonly used in French, English, and German to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art and culture.

  8. Italian Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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    Raphael: The Betrothal of the Virgin (1504), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.. Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers.

  9. Venetian painting - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with the work of Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430–1516) and his brother Gentile Bellini (c. 1429–1507) and their workshops, the major artists of the Venetian school included Giorgione (c. 1477–1510), Titian (c. 1489–1576), Tintoretto (1518–1594), Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) and Jacopo Bassano (1510–1592) and his sons.