Encyclopedia of Renaissance

613 Pages·2005·7.71 MB·English

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Preface
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of the Renaissance is a reference book, with entries
arranged in A–Z format. To go directly to a particular entry, click on the link in the
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Table of contents
A
Aachen, Hans von
Abbate, Niccolò dell'
Abravanel, Isaac
Academia secretorum naturae
academy
Acciaiuoli, Donato
Acciaiuoli family
Accolti, Benedetto
Accolti, Bernardo
Accolti family
Achillini, Alessandro
Acosta, José de
Adagia
Adamson, Patrick
Adlington, William
Adoration of the Lamb
Adrian VI
Adriano de Castello
Adriano Fiorentino
Aertzen, Pieter
Afonso V
Agostino di Duccio
Agostino Veneziano
Agricola, Alexander
Agricola, Georgius
Agricola, Martin
Agricola, Rudolphus
Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius
Ailly, Pierre d'
Alamanni, Luigi
Alberti, Gasparo
Alberti, Leon Battista
Albertinelli, Mariotto
Albizzi, Rinaldo degli
Albuquerque, Afonso de
Albuquerque, Afonso de
Alciati, Andrea
Alcock, John
Aldegrever, Heinrich
Aldine Academy
Aldine Press
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
Aleandro, Girolamo
Alemán, Mateo
Alessi, Galeazzo
Alexander VI
Alfonso II
Alfonso V (of Aragon)
Ali, Mustafa
all'antica
Allen, William
Alleyn, Edward
Allori, Alessandro
Almeida, Francisco de
Aloysius, St
Alpini, Prospero
altarpiece
Altdorfer, Albrecht
Alva, Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo
Alvarado, Pedro de
Amadeo, Giovanni Antonio
Amat, Juan Carlos
Amberger, Christoph
Amboise, Georges d'
Ambrosian Republic
Amerbach, Johannes
Amman, Jobst
Ammanati, Bartolommeo
Ammerbach, Elias Nikolaus
Amsdorf, Nikolaus von
Amyot, Jacques
Ana, Francesco d'
Anabaptist
anamorphosis
anatomy
André, Bernard
Andrea del Sarto
Andreoli, Giorgio
Andrewes, Lancelot
Angeli, Pietro Angelo
Angelico, Fra
Anghiari, Battle of
Anguissola, Sofonisba
Anjou dynasty
Anne of Denmark
Annio of Viterbo
Ansidei Madonna, The
Antico, Andrea de
Antico, L'
antipope
Antonello da Messina
Antonino, St
Anwykyll, John
Apel, Nikolaus
Apelles
Apian, Peter
Apollo Belvedere
Apostolius, Michael
Appenzeller, Benedictus
Appleby, Thomas
Apuleius
Aquaviva, Claudius
Arason, Jón
Araucana
Arbeau, Thoinot
Arcadelt, Jacob
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe
Arena Chapel
Aretino, Pietro
Argyll, Archibald Campbell, 5th Earl of Argyll
Argyropolous, Johannes
Ariosto, Ludovico
Armin, Robert
Arminius, Jacobus
Arndt, Johann
Arrabbiati
Arran, James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran
ars nova
Ascensius, Jodocus Badius
Ascham, Roger
Ashwell, Thomas
Asola, Giammateo
Aspertini, Amico
Aston, Hugh
astrology
Atahualpa
Athanasius, St
Athanasius, St
Aubigné, Théodore Agrippa d'
Audley, Thomas
Augsburg, Confession of
Augsburg, Peace of
Aurispa, Giovanni
auto
Aytoun, Robert
B
Bacon, Francis (politician)
Bade, Josse
Baglioni family
Baïf, Jean Antoine de
Bakfark, Balint (Valentin Greff)
Balassi, Bálint
Baldovinetti, Alesso
Baldung Grien, Hans
Bale, John
ballet de cour
Banchieri, Adriano
Bandello, Matteo
Bandinelli, Baccio
Barbari, Jacopo de'
Barbaro, Daniele
Barbaro, Ermolao (bishop of Verona)
Barbaro, Ermolao (patriarch of Aquileia)
Barbaro, Francesco
Barbarossa
Barbé, Anton
Barclay, Alexander
Bardi family
Barends, Dirk
Barents, Willem
Barnaba da Modena
Barna da Siena
Barnes, Barnabe
Barnfield, Richard
Barocci, Federico
Baronius, Caesar
Barros, João de
Bartas, Guillaume de Saluste du
Bartholomew Fair
Bartoli, Taddeo
Bartolommeo, Fra
Barzizza, Gasparino
Basawan
Basel, Confessions of
Basel, Council of
Basil of Caesarea, St
Bassano, Giovanni
Bassano, Jacopo (Jacopo da Ponte)
Bateson, Thomas
Báthory, Stephen
Batten, Adrian
Baudart, Willem
Bauldeweyn, Noel
Bay, Michel de
Bayer, Johann
Beaufort, Lady Margaret
Beccadelli, Antonio
Beccafumi, Domenico
Beccaria, Antonio
Bedford, John, Duke of Bedford
Bedyngham, John
Bekynton, Thomas
Belgic Confession
Bellano, Bartolommeo
Bellarmine, Roberto Francesco Romolo
Belleau, Rémy
Bellechose, Henri
Belleforest, François de
Bellegambe, Jean
Belli, Girolamo
Belli, Valerio
Bellini family
Belon, Pierre
Bembo, Pietro
Benedetto da Maiano
Benivieni, Girolamo
Berchem, Jachet de
Bermejo, Bartolomé
Bermudo, Juan
Bernardino of Siena, St
Berni, Francesco
Beroaldo, Filippo the Elder
Beroaldo, Filippo the Younger
Berruguete, Alonso
Berruguete, Pedro
Bersuire, Pierre
Bertaut, Jean
Bertoldo di Giovanni
Bertrand, Antoine de
Besard, Jean-Baptiste
Bessarion, Johannes
Beza, Théodore
Bianchi Ferrari, Francesco
bianchi girari
Bible stories (in Renaissance painting and sculpture)
Binchois, Gilles de Bins
Biondi, Gian Francesco
Biondo, Flavio
Biringuccio, Vannoccio
Bissolo, Francesco
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon
Blahoslav, Jan
Bles, Herri met de
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Boccalini, Trajano
Bodin, Jean
Bodley, Thomas
Boiardo, Matteo Maria, Count of Scandiano
Bol, Hans
Boleyn, Anne
Bologna, Concord(at) of
Boltraffio, Giovanni Antonio
Bombelli, Raffaele
Bonfigli, Benedetto
Bono da Ferrara
Bonsignori, Francesco
Bontemps, Pierre
Book of Hours
Bordone, Paris
Borgia, Cesare
Borgia, Lucrezia
Borgogne, Ambrogio
Borromeo, St Carlo
Bos, Cornelis
Boscà i Almogàver, Joan
Bosch, Hieronymus
Bostius, Arnoldus
Botero, Giovanni
Botticelli, Sandro
Botticini, Francesco
Bourbon, Charles, 8th Duke of Bourbon
Bourbon, Nicholas
Bourchier, John, Lord Berners
Bourdichon, Jean
Bourges, Pragmatic Sanction of
Bouts, Dirk
bowdlerization
Boyd, Mark Alexander
Bracciolini, Poggio
Brahe, Tycho
Bramante
Bramantino
Brant (Brandt), Sebastian
Brantôme, Pierre de (Bourdeille)
Breda, Compromise of
Bregno, Andrea
Breton, Nicholas
Brill, Matheus (or Matthew) (1550–1584) and Paul (1554–1626) (painters)
Broederlam, Melchior
Bronzino, Agnolo
Brueghel
Brumel, Antoine
Brunelleschi, Filippo
Brunfels, Otto
Bruni, Leonardo
Bruno, Giordano
Bucer, Martin
Buchanan, George
Buchner, Johann (Hans von Constantz)
Budaeus
Budé, Guillaume
Bugenhagen, Johannes
Bullant, Jean
Bullinger, Johann Heinrich
Buon, Bartolommeo
Buonamente, Giovanni Battista
Buonconsiglio, Giovanni
Burbage, Richard
Burchard, Johannes
Burchiello, Domenico
Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Bürgi, Jost
Burgkmair, Hans
Burmeister, Joachim
Burton, Avery
Bury, the Monk of
Busnois, Antoine
Butinone, Bernardino
Buus, Jachet (Jacques)
Buxtorf, Johannes (I)
Byrd, William (composer)
Byzantine novel
C
Cabezón, Antonio de
Cabot, Sebastian
Caboto, Giovanni
Cabral, Pedro Alvares
Caccini, Giulio
Caius, John
Cajetan, Jacopo (Tommaso de Vio)
Calcar, Jan Steven van
Calderini, Domizio
Calepino, Ambrogio
Calixtus III (pope)
Calvaert, Denis
Calvin, John
Calvisius, Seth
Cambiaso, Luca
Cambrai, League of
Camden, William
Camerarius, Joachim
Camoëns, Luis Vaz de
Campagnola, Giulio
Campana, Pedro de
Campanella, Tommaso
Campin, Robert
Campion, Thomas
cancionero
Cane, Facino
Canis, Corneille
Cano, Juan Sebastian del
Cano, Melchior
cantus firmus
Caravaggio, Polidoro Caldara da
Cardano, Girolamo
Carlo Emanuele I
Carlton, Richard
Carmeliano, Pietro
Caro, Annibale
Carolingian Renaissance
Carpaccio, Vittore
Cartier, Jacques
cartoon
Carver, Robert
Casa, Giovanni della
Casaubon, Isaac
Cascina, Battle of
Caserta, Anthonello (Marotus) da
Caserta, Philipottus da
Cassander, Georg
cassone
Castagno, Andrea del
Castanheda, Fernão Lopes de
Castellesi, Adriano
Castellio, Sebastian
Castelvetro, Lodovico
Castiglionchio, Lapo da
Castiglione, Baldassare
Castillejo, Cristóbal de
Castro y Bellvís, Guillén de
Catherine de' Medici
Catherine of Genoa, St
Catherine of Siena
Cavalieri, Emilio de'
Cavazzoni, Marco Antonio
Caxton, William
Cecil, Robert
Cecil, William
Celestina, La
Cellini, Benvenuto
Celtis, Konrad
Cennini, Cennino
Centuriators of Magdeburg
Certon, Pierre
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
Cesalpino, Andrea
Cesariano, Cesare
Céspedes, Pablo de
chambers of rhetoric
Chambord, Château de
Champlain, Samuel de
Chapman, George
Charles (VI) the Mad
Charles VII (of France)
Charles VIII (of France)
Charles V
Charles VIII (of Sweden)
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy
Charonton, Enguerrand
Charron, Pierre
Chastellain, Georges
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheke, John
Chelcický, Petr
Chenonceau, Château de
Chettle, Henry
chiaroscuro
Chigi, Agostino
chivalry
Christian I
Christian II
Christian III
Christine de Pisan
Christus, Petrus
Chrysoloras, Manuel
Churchyard, Thomas
Cigoli, Lodovico Cardi da
Cima, Giovanni Battista
Cincius Romanus
cire perdue
Civitali, Matteo
Clanvowe, John
Clavius, Christoph
Clemens non Papa
Clement VII
Clement VIII
Cleve, Joos van (der Beke)
Clouet
Clovio, Giulio