Renaissance

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Architecture Dance Literature Music Painting Philosophy Science Technology Warfare Image File history File links Download high resolution version (966x720, 186 KB) The School of Athens - fresco by Raffaello Sanzio (w) From the web gallery of art wga. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ... Tempietto di San Pietro in Montorio, Rome, 1502, by Bramante. ... By Region: Italian Renaissance Northern Renaissance -French Renaissance -German Renaissance -English Renaissance Renaissance dances belong to the broad group of historical dances. ... The creation of the printing press encouraged authors to write in the local vernacular rather than in the classical languages of Greek and Latin, widening the reading audience and promoting the spread of Renaissance ideas Some famous authors of the literary movement of the Renaissance are Dante (writer of The... Renaissance music is European classical music written during the Renaissance, approximately 1400 to 1600. ... Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and Wife by Jan van Eyck (1434). ... Renaissance philosophy is the period of the history of philosophy in Europe that falls roughly during the between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. ... Leonardo da Vincis Vitruvian Man, an example of the blend of art and science during the Renaissance. ... Renaissance technology is the set of European artifacts and customs, spanning roughly the 14th through the 16th century. ... Gunpowder warfare is associated with the start of the widespread use of gunpowder and the development of suitable weapons to use the explosive. ...

Regions

England France Germany Italy Netherlands Northern Europe Poland Spain This article is about the cultural movement known as the English Renaissance. ... The Northern Renaissance is the term used to describe the Renaissance in northern Europe, or more broadly in Europe outside Italy. ...

The Spanish Renaissance was a movement in Spain, originating from the Italian Renaissance in Italy, that spread during the 15th and 16th centuries. These are some of the most important writers and artists in Spanish Renaissance: The Italian Renaissance began the opening phase of the Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement in Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. ... (14th century - 15th century - 16th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 15th century was that century which lasted from 1401 to 1500. ... (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ...

Literature

Vida del Lazarillo de Tormes, de sus fortunas y adversidades published in 1554. Front page

• Jorge Manrique author of the Coplas a la muerte de su padre
• Garcilaso de la Vega, poet.
• San Juan de la Cruz and
• Santa Teresa de Jesús, mystic poets .
• Fernando de Rojas, author of La Celestina
• Fray Luis de León
• Juan Boscán
• Ausiàs March
• Alonso de Ercilla, author of La Araucana
• Lope de Rueda
• Fray Luis de Granada
• Marqués de Santillana
• Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
• Juan Latino, born Juan de Sessa, poet and humanist.
• Alonso de Santa Cruz
• Francisco de la Torre
• Juan de Valdés
• Anonymous writers of the Romancero and of the Masterpiece of picaresque literature Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes

Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1406x2222, 194 KB) Sumario La vida de Lázaro de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1406x2222, 194 KB) Sumario La vida de Lázaro de Tormes y de sus fortunas y adversidades. ... Title page of the 1554 edition The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novel, published anonymously, 1554, in Alcalá de Henares in Spain, and, in 1557, in Antwerp, Flanders, then under Spanish rule. ... Jorge Manrique Jorge Manrique (ca1440 – 1479) is a major Spanish poet, whose main work, the Coplas a la muerte de su padre (Stanzas about the Death of his Father), is still read today. ... For the Peruvian writer, Garcilaso de la Vega, see Inca Garcilaso de la Vega Garcilaso de la Vega (ca. ... Saint John of the Cross (Juan de la Cruz) was a Spanish Carmelite friar, born on June 24, 1542 at Fontiveros, a small village near Avila. ... For other saints with similar names, please see Saint Teresa. ... The Spanish Mystics are a major feature of the Catholic Reformation in 16th and 17th century Spain. ... Fernando de Rojas (c. ... The Celestina (used as title, synecdoche, one of the characters of the book actually called Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea or Libro de Calisto y Melibea y de la puta vieja Celestina) is a novel published anonymously by Fernando de Rojas (about whom we know little) in 1499. ... Fray Luis de León (Cuenca, La Mancha Spain 1527 – 1591) was a scholar and poet of the Spanish Golden Age. ... Juan Boscán Almogáver (1490?–September 21, 1542), Spanish poet, was born about the close of the 15th century. ... Ausiàs March (c. ... Alonso de Ercilla (1533 - 1594) was a Basque nobleman from Spain, and author of epic poem La Araucana. ... La Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. ... Lope de Rueda (1510? - 1565) was a Spanish dramatist and author, quite possibly the best of his era. ... Louis of Granada (1505 - December 31, 1588) was a theologian, writer, and preacher. ... Possible portrait of the Marqués de Santillana Íñigo López de Mendoza, marqués de Santillana (August 19, 1398 - March 25, 1458), Castilian poet, was born at Carrión de los Condes in Old Castile. ... Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1503-1575), Spanish novelist, poet, diplomat and historian, a younger son of the count of Tenclillas, governor of Granada, was born in that city in 1503. ... Juan de Valdés (c. ... The picaresque novel (Spanish: picaresco, from pícaro, for rogue or rascal) is a popular style of novel that originated in Spain and flourished in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and has continued to influence modern literature. ... Title page of the 1554 edition The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes and of His Fortunes and Adversities is a Spanish novel, published anonymously, 1554, in Alcalá de Henares in Spain, and, in 1557, in Antwerp, Flanders, then under Spanish rule. ...

Painting and Sculpture

Salome with the Baptist's Head, by Berruguete

• El Greco Crete-born Dominico Theotocópulos (1541-1614), developed his art in Spain.
• Pedro Berruguete
• Alonso Berruguete
• Luis de Morales
• Juan de Flandes
• Alonso Sánchez Coello
• Fernando Gallego
• Bartolomé González y Serrano

Palacio de Carlos V, 180º panorama

Image File history File links Size of this preview: 476 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2024 × 2550 pixel, file size: 282 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Spanish Renaissance Alonso Berruguete ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 476 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2024 × 2550 pixel, file size: 282 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Spanish Renaissance Alonso Berruguete ... Salome by Alonso Berruguette (1512 - 16), on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence Alonso Berruguete (c. ... El Greco (The Greek, 1541 – April 7, 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. ... Saint Dominic Presiding over an Auto-da-fe by Pedro Berruguete (1475), at the Prado Museum, Madrid. ... Salome by Alonso Berruguette (1512 - 16), on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence Alonso Berruguete (c. ... Luis de Morales (1510? - 1586) was a Spanish religious painter born in Badajoz, Estremadura. ... Resurrection of Lazarus, c. ... Alonso Sanchez Coello, (1531/32, Benifairó de les valls, near Valencia - August 8th 1588, Madrid) was a Spanish painter. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2600x565, 440 KB) 180° panorama of Alhambra court yard. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2600x565, 440 KB) 180° panorama of Alhambra court yard. ...

Architecture

Main article: Architecture of the Spanish Renaissance

The Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo del Escorial, by Herrera and Juan Bautista de Toledo

• Juan de Herrera
• Juan Bautista de Toledo
• Gil de Hontañón
• Diego Siloe
• Enrique Egas
• Alonso de Covarrubias
• Pedro Machuca
• Andrés de Vandelvira
• Diego de Riaño
• Juan d Álava

Renaissance architecture was that style of architecture which evolved firstly in Florence and then Rome and other parts of Italy as the result of Humanism and a revived interest in Classical architecture. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... // El Escorial, Royal Monastery of San Lorenzo El Real (also known as Monasterio de El Escorial or simply, El Escorial) was since the last quarter of the 16th century the Eighth Wonder of the World. ... El Escorial Juan de Herrera (b. ... Juan Bautista de Toledo (d. ... El Escorial Juan de Herrera (b. ... Juan Bautista de Toledo (d. ... Palace of Guzmanes, in León, by Gil de Hontañón Rodrigo Gil de Hontañón, (Cantabria, 1500-Segovia 1577) Spanish renacentist architect. ... Diego Siloe (Burgos ca. ... Pedro Machuca is mainly remembered as the Spanish architect responsible for the design of the Palace of Charles V (begun 1528) adjacent to the Alcazar in Granada. ... Façade of Seville Town Hall, by Diego de Riaño Diego de Riaño (Valladolid ?-1534) was a Spanish architect of the Renaissance. ...

Music

• Tomás Luis de Victoria
• Cristóbal de Morales
• Juan del Encina (also poet and dramatist)
• Francisco Guerrero
• Antonio de Cabezón
• Francisco de Salinas
• Diego Ortiz
• Mateo Flecha
• Francisco de Peñalosa
• Luis de Milán
• Alonso Mudarra
• Bartolomé de Escobedo
• Juan Pérez de Gijón
• Francisco de la Torre
• Juan de Triana
• Tomás de Santa María
• Alonso Lobo
• Joan Pau Pujol

Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548 – August 20, 1611) was a gifted Spanish composer of the late Renaissance. ... Cristóbal de Morales (c. ... Juan del Encina (1469-c. ... Francisco Guerrero (October 4 (?), 1528 – November 8, 1599) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. ... Antonio de Cabezón (1510–March 26, 1566) was a Spanish composer and organist of the Renaissance. ... In music, Francisco de Salinas (1513-1590) was a music theorist and organist noted as among the first to describe meantone temperament in mathematically precise terms, and one of the first (along with Guillaume Costeley) to describe, in effect, 19 equal temperament. ... Diego Ortiz (ca. ... (1481-1553) Spanish composer best known for his ensaladas, though their publication in Prague in 1581 by his nephew, Mateo Flecha el Joven (the Younger), also a musician. ... Francisco de Peñalosa (c. ... Luis de Milán (c. ... Alonso Mudarra (c. ... Bartolomé de Escobedo (c. ... Juan Pérez de Gijón (fl. ... Tomás de Santa María (also Tomás de Sancta Maria) (d. ... Alonso Lobo (c. ... Joan Pau Pujol (also known as Juan Pujol) (baptized June 18, 1570 – May 17, 1626) was a Catalan composer and organist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque. ...

Science

• Miguel Servet
• School of Salamanca
• Jerónimo Muñoz
• Fernán Pérez de Oliva

Michael Servetus. ... The School of Salamanca is the renaissance of thought in diverse intellectual areas by Spanish theologians, rooted in the intellectual and pedagogical work of Francisco de Vitoria. ...

See also

• Spanish art