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Chemical analysis of enamel compositions help to distinguish between authentic Renaissance period pieces and later pieces done in Renaissance style.
Mark T. Wypyski
August 2, 2022
The earliest violins incorporated features of existing bowed instruments: the rebec, the Renaissance fiddle, and the lira da braccio.
Rebecca Arkenberg
October 1, 2002
The precise meaning of some of the motifs that held special significance during the Renaissance has been lost over time.
Melinda Watt
August 1, 2011
Italian Renaissance artists became anatomists by necessity, as they attempted to refine a more lifelike, sculptural portrayal of the human figure.
Carmen C. Bambach
October 1, 2002
Keyboard instruments were ideal for playing the polyphonic, or “many-voiced,” music of the Renaissance, because more than one key or melody could be played at the same time.
Rebecca Arkenberg
October 1, 2002
The manufacture of secular art objects, usually for the purpose of commemoration, personalized these lavish Italian Renaissance interiors.
James Voorhies
October 1, 2002
The rediscovery of Greco-Roman culture in the Renaissance restored the nude to the heart of creative endeavor.
Jean Sorabella
January 1, 2008
In European medieval and Renaissance practice, the design was invariably copied from a full-scale colored pattern, known as the cartoon, a practice that continues to this day.
Thomas P. Campbell
February 1, 2008
The primary functions of the institution of marriage centered on the family and society, and love rarely entered into the equation. Yet the subjects of love, beauty, and attraction mesmerized Renaissance men and women.
Andrea Bayer
November 1, 2008
Some of the most rhetorically elevated, learned, and refined works of Renaissance art and literature were produced by painters and poets who turned their energies with equal facility to lewd, salacious, and erotic subject matter.
Linda Wolk-Simon
November 1, 2008