Renaissance

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Occurred:

1300 - 1700

Renaissance Image Gallery

Alexander VI, a Borgia Pope infamous for his corruption	Cicero
David, by Michelangelo. The Accademia Gallery, Florence.	Galileo Galilei. Portrait in crayon by Leoni
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo	A political map of the Italian Peninsula circa 1494
The Arnolfini Portrait, by Jan van Eyck, painted 1434	Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence and patron of arts

Books about Renaissance

The Perfect House
The Reign of Henry VIII
The measure of reality
Raphael and his age
Michelangelo and His Influence

Title	Author	Copyright Date	Genre
The Perfect House	Witold Rybczynski		Biography
The Reign of Henry VIII	Diarmaid MacCulloch
The measure of reality	Alfred W. Crosby
Raphael and his age	Paul Joannides
Michelangelo and His Influence	Paul Joannides
Titian to 1518	Paul Joannides		Biography
Michelangelo	Paul Joannides
Renaissance diplomacy	Garrett Mattingly
A History of Victoria	Geoffrey Blainey
The Renaissance	Will Durant
Dirge for a doge	Elizabeth Eyre
Vermeer	Anthony Bailey		Autobiography, Biography
The Essential Machiavelli	Paul Strathern		Philosophy
Exploration by land	Paul Strathern		Children's literature
The story of O	Michele Jaffe
Ambivalent Conquests	Inga Clendinnen		Reference, Biography
Eros and magic in the Renaissance	Ioan P. Culianu
Prosecuting crime in the Renaissance	John H. Langbein
The Forging of Races	Colin Kidd
Italian Master Drawings At The Philadelphia Museum Of Art	Mimi Cazort
Medieval Schools	Nicholas Orme
Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena	Diana Norman
Giotto	Brock Cole
The Essential Michelangelo	Klaus Ottmann
Joan	Donald Spoto		Biography, Autobiography
Global interests	Lisa Jardine
Worldly goods	Lisa Jardine		Sociology
Courtly letters in the age of Henry VIII	Seth Lerer
The House of Medici	Christopher Hibbert		Biography
Human Nature and Its Remaking	William Ernest Hocking		Philosophy, Fiction
Meaning of God in Human Experience	William Ernest Hocking		Philosophy
Salvaging Spenser	Willy Maley
Nation, state, and empire in English renaissance literature	Willy Maley
Recovery, reorientation, and Reformation	Glanmor Williams
The vanishing point	Louise Hawes		Children's literature
The Renaissance	Edith Helen Sichel
Defenders of the text	Anthony Grafton
Bring out your dead	Anthony Grafton
Rome Reborn	Anthony Grafton		Reference
Euphorion	Vernon Lee
Crescent and cross	Hugh Bicheno
The Renaissance	James A. Corrick		Children's literature
Crusading in the Fifteenth Century	Norman Housley
The black death and the transformation of the west	David Herlihy
Michelangelo	Frederick Hartt
Marvelous Possessions	Stephen Greenblatt
Learning to Curse	Stephen Greenblatt
Renaissance self-fashioning	Stephen Greenblatt
Shakespearean negotiations	Stephen Greenblatt
Slavery, Colonialism and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 16401960	Patrick Manning
Origins of the modern West	Theodore K. Rabb
Renaissance Lives	Theodore K. Rabb
The Last Days of the Renaissance: And the March to Modernity	Theodore K. Rabb		Non-fiction
Renaissance Europe	De Lamar Jensen
Distance Points	James S. Ackerman		Psychology
The Story Of The Renaissance	William Henry Hudson
Mona Lisa	Serge Bramly
Leonardo Da Vinci	Sherwin B. Nuland		Biography
Fire in the City: Savonarola and the Struggle for the Soul of Renaissance Florence	Lauro Martines		Non-fiction
Luca Signorelli: The Complete Paintings	Tom Henry		Non-fiction
Carlo Crivelli	Ronald Lightbown		Non-fiction
Storytelling in Christian Art From Giotto to Donatello	Jules Lubbock		Coffee table book
The Banquet: Dining in the Great Courts of Late Renaissance Europe	Ken Albala		Non-fiction
The Renaissance: A Short History	Paul Johnson		Non-fiction
Three Golden Ages: Discovering the Creative Secrets of Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan England, and America's Founding	Alf J. Mapp		Non-fiction
The Medici	Paul Strathern	2003	Biography, Non-fiction
King of Shadows		1999	Children's literature, Fiction, Speculative fiction, Historical novel
The Vampire Armand	Anne Rice	1998	Horror, Fiction, Children's literature, Fantasy, Speculative fiction, Erotica, Gothic fiction
The Innamorati	Midori Snyder	1998	Speculative fiction, Fantasy
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio	Peter Robb		Biography

Parent events of Renaissance

Late Middle Ages

(1300 - 1500)

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Early modern Europe

(1500 - 1800)

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The Renaissance went from 1300 through 1700.

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