where it was first located in the Royal Palace. The current main building was designed by Pierre Cuypers and first opened in 1885. The museum has on display 8,000 objects of art and history from the years 1200 to 2000, and a total collection of 1 million objects. The museum features mas...
Renaissance (c. 1300–1545) Meaning “rebirth,” the term describes the revival of classical learning and art. Centered at first in Florence, it marked the end of the Middle Ages and was the outstanding creative period in western art. Architecture, painting, and sculpture, deriving from Greek...
Renaissance (c. 1300–1545) Meaning “rebirth,” the term describes the revival of classical learning and art. Centered at first in Florence, it marked the end of the Middle Ages and was the outstanding creative period in western art. Architecture, painting, and sculpture, deriving from Greek...
Moored by Alpine mountains in the north, the boot-shaped Italian peninsula juts into the central Mediterranean Sea. Along its European frontier, Italy shares borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, and Slovenia. The nation's land mass, which includes the two major islands of Sicily and Sardini...
Italian Renaissance When was the Italian Renaissance? Scholars disagree about the exact dates in which the Renaissance began and ended; however, most agree that it began sometime after the end of the Black Plague in 1351. Others push the date back to 1300 or forwards to 1400. One of the ...
The Frankfurt performance of Hindemith’s triptych was part of what Günter Rühle first termed “Frankfurt expressionism,” which centered in the city’s theatrical institutions.79There is a consensus in secondary literature that the beginning of Frankfurt expressionism was the premiere of Georg Kaiser...
Visiting Italy in 1907,Henri Matissewas deeply impressed by the frescoes ofGiotto, the 14th-century artist who ushered in the Italian Renaissance. Matisse especially likedGiotto‘s simplified volumes and restricted primary colors. In response to his Italian experiences, Matisse set about making Fauvism...
Tell stories in ways that incorporate text, photos, video, and interactive elements. Work with an interpreter.The CityUrbino is a picturesque Renaissance hill town and the jewel of the Marche region of central Italy. Although Urbino was a Roman and medieval city, its peak came during the 15th...
The idea of the ideal city reached its final form, greatly influencing modern urban planning. The ideal Renaissance town was a harmonious, symmetrical community centered on a central square, like the one shown below The architecture of an Ideal city ...
7.(sometimes cap.) of or pertaining to the humanities or classical scholarship, esp. that of the Renaissance humanists, or to philosophical or scientific humanism. [1580–90; < Italianumanista.Seehuman,-ist] hu`man•is′tic,adj.