Italian Renaissance

Szulakowska, Urszula. Patronage in relation to alchemical illustration in the early Italian Renaissance. Acta Historiae Artum 35 (1990-1992) 169-180. 

The first example of luminescence emission from solids, of which written documents exist, date from the Italian Renaissance, originating from the accidental discovery around the year 1600 (1602 or 1603) by a Bolonian shoemaker and alchemist, called Vincencio Casciarolo or Casciarolus. He melted heavy bricks, close to his house, hoping to extract precious metals from them. 

Some of the most famous fresco paintings of the Italian Renaissance, such as the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel ceiling painted by Michelangelo, were done prior to the seventeenth century. Several years ago these frescoes were renovated to bring out the original magnificent colors. 

Probably the greatest of all frescos are those of the Italian Renaissance. During this time, Michelangelo was at work on the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel... 

As the word linear suggests, line is used in linear perspective, a mechanical system developed centuries ago during the Italian Renaissance. The following terms outline this system ... 

SUN Ast. The convDon slgil used In modern times, the encircled dot G was introduced during the Italian Renaissance (see SOLAR 1978) from the esoteric Christian tradition. Prior to that, in both alchemical and astrological texts the sun was symbolised by means of one or other of the Graeco-Byzantine sigils, most usually the which is... 

Chemist Prime Levi s powerful book. The Periodic Table (see pp. 12, 14), employed 21 elements as chapter titles, to explore symbolically his experiences, memories, and dreams as an Italian-born Jew working in World War II Turin. For example, in the opening chapter. Argon, Levi likens his Italian renaissance ancestors and their heirs to the inert gases ... 

From the sanetuary of Harran, there was a transfer of alehemy and metallurgy to Islamie Sufism. During the Italian Renaissance, the same knowledge became available from Constantinople through the enthusiastic acquisition of manuscripts by Cosimo de Medici. From Renaissance Italy, it made its way to Britain where the Elizabethans received it enthusiastically. 

The Family claimed its members led the Italian Renaissance and produced great writers, teachers, healers, scholars, poets, artists and craftsmen. They also claim credit for great charitable works and educational schemes. Dr John Dee traveled to Rome to follow the Family and bring their Italian Renaissance stories back to England. 

Grafton, A. Leon Battista Alberti Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance, 1st edn. Hill and Wang, New York (2000)... 

See Joel Spingarn, Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (New York Columbia University Press, 1908) and Bernard Weinberg, A History of Literary Criticism in the Italian Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 1961). 

The best way to understand the concept of a Renaissance man is to examine Renaissance figures such as Leonardo da Vinci (Figure 2.5), a giant of the Italian Renaissance (Wrey 2005) and Krzysztof Arciszewski, a lesser-known figure of the Polish Renaissance, whose travels and achievements in... 

It was at the University of Bologna during the Italian Renaissance that Scipione del Ferro (1465-1526) first discovered how to solve any depressed cubic equation for its real roots. A depressed cubic lacks a quadratic term. 

A simple form of perspective drawing was first introduced in the fifth century b.c. in ancient Greece. In the early 1400s, Filippo Brunellschi, an Italian Renaissance architect,... 

Red ochres have been reported in Byzantine icons and frescos (Bikiaris et al, 1999 Lelekova, 1998 Panev, 1979 Sr. Danula et al., 2002), mediaeval frescos (Perez et al, 1999), used on the Turin Shroud (McCrone, 1986) and on playing cards (Richter and Harlin, 1976). Ochres occur in easel painting world-wide. For examples see Gettens and Turner (1951, Mexican santeros) Bomford et al. (1990, Italian Renaissance) Kuhn (1968, Vermeer) Townsend (1996, Turner) Newman et al. (1980, Winslow Homer) and Laar and Bumstock (1997, general). 

Aftermath of the Newstead Abbey Fire in 1965, in which the picture salon was badly damaged and the Italian Renaissance ceiling destroyed. Here the curator is examining a damaged oil-painting of Byron s... 

MS Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 77.22, f. 5r. See J. Hill Cotton, Name-List from a Medical Register of the Italian Renaissance 1350-1550 (Oxford 1976), p. 21 according to the unpublished Register of the same author (card index in the Wellcome Medical Library), Lorenzo was the son of Jacopo da Bisticci and had some connection with Alessandro Sermoneta Register, sect. B 3-7). 

Leonardo da Vind (1452-1519). A great artist, architect, and experimental scientist of the Italian Renaissance, he displayed genius in many areas. He is remembered more for his conceptual designs than for practical engineering works. 

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