Europe in the Renaissance : metamorphoses 1400-1600

Folger bibliographic ID: 351024
Folger call number: N6754 .E97 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499708

The Renaissance experienced some of the most important advances in human history: the invention of the printing press using movable letters, the discovery of an unknown continent, and the formulation of a new view of the earth. It was a time when people sought to solve the riddles of nature, experimented with alchemy, set out to develop a new medical science, conceived a new vision of humankind, and created beauty in the form of pictures and architecture, sculpture and literature. All these discoveries and creations would have been unimaginable without cultural exchange. The Renaissance was an era of dialogue and new horizons in thinking over great distances and time

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Catalogue of the exhibition in Swiss National Museum, Landesmuseum Zurich, August 1 to November 27, 2016 Includes bibliographical references The Renaissance experienced some of the most important advances in human history: the invention of the printing press using movable letters, the discovery of an unknown continent, and the formulation of a new view of the earth. It was a time when people sought to solve the riddles of nature, experimented with alchemy, set out to develop a new medical science, conceived a new vision of humankind, and created beauty in the form of pictures and architecture, sculpture and literature. All these discoveries and creations would have been unimaginable without cultural exchange. The Renaissance was an era of dialogue and new horizons in thinking over great distances and time

Extended title: Europe in the Renaissance : metamorphoses 1400-1600 / edited by the Swiss National Museum, [Erika Hebeisen] ; texts by Bernard Aikema [and twelve others]

Art, Renaissance Renaissance Kultur Europa Europe

editor: Hebeisen, Erika
author of additional material: Aikema, Bernard
host institution: Schweizerisches Landesmuseum