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Located on a rock in the middle of a lake, this beautiful European castle can be found in the village of Cervena Lhota, in South Bohemia region. Dating back to the 15thcentury, the castle is a Renaissance masterpiece, with its unique red exterior enclosing a small courtyard. It sits in ...
On the rolling stock front, beyond multiple units, bi-level ordouble-decktrainsalso live a renaissance, also in North America. The lower floor of bi-level cars is also ideal for what has now became standard on European local trains:bike transport. Modernrailbuses gave new life to many Europ...
Particularly in Italy, the revival of cultural life and the arts in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries commonly known as the Renaissance must also be considered as an urban and comparatively secular phenomenon, aligned with courts and courtly patronage but not with the universities, which w...
Renaissance humanism, that renowned philosophical and literary movement emphasizing human values and the direct study of classical Greek and Latin texts, is hardly conceivable without the technology of printing that sustained the efforts of learned humanists. Regarding science, the advent of printing and...
Augsburg is by far the largest city on the Romantic Road. Although not a particularly romantic city, it does have some very interesting sights. It was a wealthy city at the end of the Middle Ages and had the first Renaissance buildings in Germany. ...
Whatever one may make of that claim, early modern artists needed accurate knowledge of human muscular anatomy for lifelike renditions, and an explosion of anatomical research in the Renaissance may be attributed to this need in the artistic commu Paragraph 1 The Scientific Revolution represents a ...
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Particularly in Italy, the revival of cultural life and the arts in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries commonly known as the Renaissance must also be considered as an urban and comparatively secular phenomenon, aligned with courts and courtly patronage but not with the universities, which ...