Illustrations and text provide a comprehensive introduction to the Renaissance, focusing on advancements in science and technology, mathematics, astronomy, physics, medicine, exploration, biology, the occult, and other topics.
Illustrations and text provide a comprehensive introduction to the Renaissance, focusing on exploration and trade, advancements in shipbuilding and mapmaking, merchant competition, overseas voyages, early Portuguese adventures, the Northwest Passage, the Columbian Exchange, and other topics.
Provides an index to 158, alphabetically arranged, illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism; and includes a time line, a glossary, resources for further study, a directory of articles and contributors, and a list of maps.
Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Preaching to Christopher Wren.
Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Michelangelo to Portugal.
Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Humanism and Learning to the Medicis.
Contains illustrated articles that chronicle European history between 1300 and 1700; discussing the influence of plague and war on the European people and examining the development of humanism. Arranged alphabetically from Ren? Decartes to Households.
Contains approximately twelve hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about various aspects of the history and culture of the Renaissance, covering a period that ranges from 1350 through the seventeenth century; and includes maps, genealogical tables, and a chronology.
In Renaissance Italy, Artemisia Gentileschi endures the subjugation of women that allows her father to take credit for her extraordinary paintings, rape and the ensuing trial, and torture, buoyed by her deceased mother's stories of strong women of the Bible.
