Mathematics played a key role in Renaissance aesthetics. Mathematics was seen as the most fundamental concept that could link nature, the human mind, and the ...
Continue Reading →A long-awaited reassessment of Andrea Palladio’s canonical villas that challenges widely accepted interpretations of the Renaissance architect’s work Many historians of architecture have viewed the ...
Continue Reading →Athanasius Kircher (1602–80) stands out as one of the last all-encompassing minds. For this true Renaissance man, the whole world was a glorious appearance of ...
Continue Reading →The Darker Side of the Renaissance weaves together literature, semiotics, history, historiography, cartography, and cultural theory to examine the role of language in the colonization ...
Continue Reading →A collection of essays written essentially by members of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles, exploring certain ...
Continue Reading →Excerpt from Stories of the Italian Artists From Vasari Vasari, and tell the tales as nearly as I can in his own words. His treatment ...
Continue Reading →Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories originated under Medici patronage at a moment in which, after the death of Lorenzo the younger in May 1519, Cardinal Giulio de’ ...
Continue Reading →Calvin’s Harmony of the Law is his commentary on the books Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Whereas the majority of Calvin’s commentaries are chronologically arranged–beginning ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1556, Agricola’s De Re Metallica was the first book on mining to be based on field research and observation — what today ...
Continue Reading →Momus is the most ambitious literary creation of Leon Battista Alberti, the famous humanist-scientist-artist and “universal man” of the Italian Renaissance. In this ...
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