Quotes About Renaissance

we must not forget the discovery of perspective in the Renaissance period in northern Europe

Although the work dates from the Early Renaissance, Gentile shows an affinity with these older traditions in his style and materials, which implies there are not such clear breaks between one artistic period and the next.

Banks listed the conventional-wisdom explanations for the Renaissance: Prosperity, which provided money and markets to support art Peace, which provided the stability to seek artistic and philosophical progress Freedom, which liberated artists from state or religious control Social mobility, which allowed talented poor people to enter the arts The paradigm thing, which brought new perspectives and mediums that created a wave of originality and expression.

Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing." —PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

It seems to me that the arts are rather flourishing. There's an awful lot of bad art about because of this, but that's true of every great era. I'm sure there was a lot dreadful art in the Renaissance that we fortunately don't see today.

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Az egész reneszánsz ezt a vágyképet dédelgette, fák alatt meghúzódó, h?vös házban jó és bölcs barátok csendes, der?s, mégis komoly társalgásának a képét. Nyugalom és harmónia. Az egész évszázad az egyszer?ség, Å'szinteség, igazság és természetesség megvalósítására törekedett.

A mind so dark it made one wonder if the Renaissance had ever really taken place.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

A gente vive para a frente, mas compreende para trás, ninguém na época disse "Oba, começou a Renascença!

Era uno de esos pedantes que tanto abundaban a la sazón, siervos del paganismo resucitado, de quienes Erasmo se mofa porque sólo consideraban verdaderamente latinas las palabras que Cicerón incluyó en su léxico.

We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

We experience in our sleep many instances of Pity, like the different pietàs of the Renaissance, but unlike them ours are not carved in marble but evanescent. They have their value, however, which is to keep us in touch with a certain kinder, more humane view of things that is only too easily submerged in the chilly, even hostile good sense of the waking state.

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits." With all our different interests, we definitely can't allow ourselves to get stuck in that trap: We need to design a multifaceted life big enough to accommodate our Renaissance Souls.

Leo X (1513–21), was more pious than his predecessors but no less convinced that the measure of papal greatness was an increase in papal lands and a sponsorship of the arts. Leo,

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

Live the lifestyle instead of paying lip service to the lifesytle. Live with commitment. With emotional content. Live whatever life you choose honestly. Give up this renaissance man, dilettante bullshit of doing a lot of different things (and none of them very well by real standards). Get to the guts of one thing; accept, without casuistry, the responsability of making a choice.

I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

A plentiful supply of paper – just as much as the study of ancient sculpture or single-point perspective – was among the factors that led to what we call the Renaissance. It allowed artists to think and work in different ways, a transformation as significant as the Internet and computer technology have been in the early twenty-first century.

There is no earlier period in the history of the West that it is possible to get to know quite so well or so intimately (we have nothing like such rich and varied evidence from classical Athens). It is not for more than a millennium, in the world of Renaissance Florence, that we find any

the city of Rome, the best indication of the changed world is the arch erected in 315 CE in honour of the emperor Constantine's victory over one of his internal rivals. It still stands, preserved because it was once built into a Renaissance fortress, between the old Roman

Renaissance of Roman Law was overcome by the power of the great legal corporations

René d'Anjou—"Good King René" as he was known—was one of the most important figures in European culture during the years immediately preceding the Renaissance.