Renaissance: Facts & Related Content

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Location EuropeFranceHollandItaly

Did You Know?

  • Developments in global finance and trade may have enabled the Renaissance.
  • As a direct consequence of humanist transformations of education, many prominent Renaissance figures were polymaths, trained in music, art, writing, and science.
  • Becoming a patron of artists and intellectuals was one way that Italian elites could display their wealth during the Renaissance.

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Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Jacob Burckhardt
Jacob Burckhardt
Swiss historian
Lucien Paul Victor Febvre
French historian
Pater, Walter
Walter Pater
English author
Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark
British art historian
Symonds, John Addington
John Addington Symonds
English writer
Berenson, photograph by David Seymour
Bernard Berenson
American art critic
Lodovico Zacconi
Italian musicologist

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