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The bronze figure of the Biblical king David by the Italian Renaissance artist Donatello (c. 1386-1466 CE). The figure was sculpted in the 1420s to 1440s CE. (Bargello, Florence)

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 90 - c. 20 BCE), better known simply as Vitruvius, was a Roman military engineer and architect who wrote De Architectura (On Architecture), a treatise which combines the history of ancient architecture and engineering...

Philology is derived from the Greek terms φίλος (love) and λόγος (word, reason) and literally means a love of words. It is the study of language in literary sources and is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics. Philology...

An oil-on-wood panel self-portrait by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528 CE). Painted c. 1500 when the artist was 28, this portrait shows Dürer's mastery of natural realism - indeed, his dog was impressed, it is said...

The fall in 1519 of Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Mexica or Aztec Empire, as it was later called, laid the foundation for the Spanish colonial empire on the North American mainland. It was the first time that Europeans had subjugated a...

In the wake of the downfall of the Western Roman Empire and the intellectual collapse of Athens, Byzantine scholars engaged in preserving the Classical Greek language and its literature. Thus they became the guardians of a vanished culture...

Springtime of the Renaissance: Sculpture and the Arts in Florence, 1400-60 is the exhibition catalogue of an international, retrospective exhibition currently on show at the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, Italy. Edited by Beatrice Paolozzi...

BOOKS about Giovanni Bellini: GIOVANNI BELLINI by Oskar Bätschmann —- https://bit.ly/2Is4gGx GIOVANNI BELLINI : THE ART OF CONTEMPLATION by Johannes Grave —- https://bit.ly/2Ugy2ju GIOVANNI BELLINI - LANDSCAPES OF FAITH IN RENAISSANCE...

The School of Athens by Raphael, painted between 1510-1511 CE, depicting all of the major philosophers of antiquity with Plato and Aristotle at the centre. (Vatican Museums, Rome).

What's so special about Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square — symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle explains...