All 13 Uses of
renaissance
in
Angels & Demons
- It was one of the most horrific tragedies in Renaissance art.†
Chpt 35-36
- The room was a lushly adorned Renaissance library complete with inlaid bookshelves, oriental carpets, and colorful tapestries …. and yet the room bristled with high-tech gear-banks of computers, faxes, electronic maps of the Vatican complex, and televisions tuned to CNN.†
Chpt 35-36
- Langdon dubbed it Sterile Renaissance.†
Chpt 49-50 *
- Not only had Milton made a well-documented 1638 pilgrimage to Rome to "commune with enlightened men," but he had held meetings with Galileo during the scientist's house arrest, meetings portrayed in many Renaissance paintings, including Annibale Gatti's famous Galileo and Milton, which hung even now in the IMSS Museum in Florence.†
Chpt 53-54
- He was amazed how few people knew Santi, the last name of one of the most famous Renaissance artists ever to live.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Santi," Langdon said, "is the last name of the great Renaissance master, Raphael."†
Chpt 55-56
- Langdon pointed to a Renaissance art poster on the wall.†
Chpt 61-62
- Renaissance architects lived for only two reasons-to glorify God with big churches, and to glorify dignitaries with lavish tombs.†
Chpt 61-62
- Half of the sculpting done in Renaissance and Baroque Rome was for the funeraries.†
Chpt 61-62
- The hole was then covered with the Renaissance equivalent of a manhole cover.†
Chpt 61-62
- Most Renaissance cathedrals were designed as makeshift fortresses in the event a city was stormed.†
Chpt 63-64
- Contrary to common perception, Renaissance cathedrals invariably contained multiple chapels, huge cathedrals like Notre Dame having dozens.†
Chpt 65-66
- Perched precariously on the upper stacks he found the fattest ledgers of all-those belonging to the masters of the Renaissance-Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Botticelli.†
Chpt 83-84
Definition:
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(Renaissance with an uppercase "R") the period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)editor's notes: Named as an indication of a rebirth of certain classical ideas that had long been lost to Europe. It has been argued that the movement was strongly influenced by the rediscovery of ancient texts that had been forgotten by Western civilization, but were preserved in some monastic libraries and in the Islamic world, and the translations of Greek and Arabic texts into Latin.
Some historians have suggested that the term Renaissance is loaded and are suggesting the term Early Modern to replace it -- as Middle Ages has largely replaced Dark Ages for the period that preceded the Renaissance.