WebRenaissance Technologies LLC, also known as RenTech or RenTec, is an American hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York, on Long Island, which specializes in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statistical analysis.Their signature Medallion fund is famed for the best record in investing history. …

WebThe Renaissance of the 12th century was a period of many changes at the outset of the High Middle Ages.It included social, political and economic transformations, and an intellectual revitalization of Western Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots. These changes paved the way for later achievements such as the literary and artistic …

WebCultural movements. Dinosaur renaissance, renewed academic and popular interest in dinosaurs from the late 1960s; Neo-Renaissance, a group of 19th century architectural revival styles; Nuclear renaissance, a possible nuclear power industry revival; In Africa. African Renaissance, the concept that African people and nations shall achieve cultural, …

WebRenaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range of classicizing Italian modes. Under the broad designation Renaissance architecture nineteenth-century …

WebHigh Renaissance style in architecture conventionally begins with Donato Bramante, whose Tempietto at S. Pietro in Montorio at Rome was begun in 1510. The Tempietto, signifies a full-scale revival of ancient Roman commemorative architecture.David Watkin writes that the Tempietto, like Raphael's works in the Vatican (1509–11), "is an attempt at reconciling …

WebThe Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps.From the last years of the 15th century, its Renaissance spread around Europe. Called the Northern Renaissance because it occurred north of the Italian Renaissance, this period became the German, French, English, Low Countries, Polish Renaissances and in …

WebLe Monument de la Renaissance africaine est un groupe monumental de 52 mètres en bronze et cuivre [1] à Ouakam, une commune d'arrondissement de Dakar, sur l'une des deux collines volcaniques coniques qui surplombent la capitale sénégalaise, les Mamelles, la plus haute portant déjà le phare des Mamelles.

WebItalian Renaissance domes were designed during the Renaissance period of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy.Beginning in Florence, the style spread to Rome and Venice and made the combination of dome, drum, and barrel vaults standard structural forms.. Notable architects during the Italian Renaissance were Filippo Brunelleschi, builder of …

WebThe word "Renaissance" The word Renaissance is a French word, whose literal translation into English is "Rebirth". The term was first used and defined by French historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874) in his 1855 work Histoire de France (History of France). Jules Michelet defined the 16th-century Renaissance in France as a period in Europe's cultural history …

WebLa peinture de la Renaissance est, comme tout l'art de la Renaissance, influencée par l'Antiquité.Sous l'influence des idées humanistes et l'apparition d'une nouvelle classe bourgeoise et marchande (flamande et italienne), qui prend les rênes des États, naît un nouveau système de représentation du monde avec la Nature visible et sensible pour …

WebThe last major event in Renaissance astronomy is the work of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). He was among the first generation of astronomers to be trained with the Theoricae novae and the Epitome.Shortly before 1514 he began to revive Aristarchus's idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun. He spent the rest of his life attempting a …

WebUnter Musik der Renaissance, auch genannt Renaissancemusik, versteht man die europäische Musik der beginnenden Neuzeit, also des Zeitraums des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. Über die genaue Epochenabgrenzung, ebenso wie über musikalische Merkmale der Renaissancemusik, besteht in der Forschung kein Konsens.

WebStylistic evolution. Italian Renaissance influences begin to show on Early Netherlandish painting around 1500, but in many ways the older style was remarkably persistent. Antwerp Mannerism is a term for painters showing some Italian influence, but mainly continuing the style and subjects of the older masters. Hieronymus Bosch is a highly individual artist, …

WebThe African Renaissance Monument is a 52 m (171 ft) tall bronze statue located on top of one of the twin hills known as Collines des Mamelles, outside Dakar, Senegal.Built overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Ouakam suburb, the statue was designed by the Senegalese architect Pierre Goudiaby after an idea presented by president Abdoulaye …