Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici (Italian: [loˈrɛntso de ˈmɛːditʃi]; 1 January 1449 – 8 April 1492) was an Italian statesman, banker, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent (Lorenzo il Magnifico [loˈrɛntso il maɲˈɲiːfiko]) by contemporary Florentines, he was a ...

Filippo di Ser Brunellesco Lippi ou Filippo Brunelleschi, né en 1377 à Florence et mort le 15 avril 1446 à Rome, est un architecte, sculpteur, peintre, et orfèvre de l'école florentine.. Brunelleschi puise sa vigueur créatrice aux sources antiques pour rationaliser l'espace de la cité moderne et met en place les bases de la perspective, opposant ainsi au gothique tardif un nouveau ...

This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary.The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo's Last Judgement of the 1530s.. The themes that preoccupied painters of the Italian …

The Malleus Maleficarum, usually translated as the Hammer of Witches, is the best known treatise on witchcraft. It was written by the German Catholic clergyman Heinrich Kramer (under his Latinized name Henricus Institor) and first published in the German city of Speyer in 1486. It has been described as the compendium of literature in demonology of the 15th century.

The canton of Fribourg, also canton of Freiburg (French: Canton de Fribourg [kɑ̃tɔ̃ d(ə) fʁibuʁ]; German: Kanton Freiburg [ˈfraɪbʊrɡ] (); Arpitan: Canton de Fribôrg [cɛ̃ˈtɔ̃ də fʁiˈbwa] Romansh: Chantun Friburg Italian: Canton Friburgo) is located in western Switzerland.The canton is bilingual, with French spoken by more than two thirds of the citizens and German by a ...

Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) is a medieval poem written in Old French and presented as an allegorical dream vision.As poetry, The Romance of the Rose is a notable instance of courtly literature, purporting to provide a "mirror of love" in which the whole art of romantic love is disclosed. Its two authors conceived it as a psychological allegory; throughout …

The Virgin of the Rocks (Italian: Vergine delle rocce), sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks, is the name of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, of the same subject, with a composition which is identical except for several significant details.The version generally considered the prime version, the earlier of the two, is unrestored and hangs in the …

Leonardo da Vinci, properly named Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Leonardo, son of ser Piero from Vinci), was born on 15 April 1452 in, or close to, the Tuscan hill town of Vinci; Florence was 20 miles away. He was born out of wedlock to Piero da Vinci [] (Ser Piero da Vinci d'Antonio di ser Piero di ser Guido; 1426–1504), a Florentine legal notary, and Caterina [] (c. 1434 – 1494), …

Puerto Real (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpweɾto reˈal]) is a seaport in Andalusia, in the province of Cádiz.As of 2010, it had a population of 40,667.. The town is located on the northern shore of the inner lobe of the Bay of Cádiz, on the site of the ancient Roman settlement of Portus Gaditanus.An ancient trading post, it is probably the oldest settlement on the Bay of Cádiz.

The Genroku era (1688–1704) in Japan is widely considered a "golden age" for literature, drama, and the arts; Danish Golden Age, first half of the 19th century; Golden Age of Russian Poetry, first half of the 19th century, with Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev and others; Golden Age of Capitalism, a period of rapid growth in the economies of the west, and Japan, from 1945 …