Renaissance - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈrenəsɑːns|
Brit.
|rɪˈneɪs(ə)ns|
noun
- the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries (syn: renascence)
- the revival of learning and culture (syn: rebirth, renascence)
- the revival of learning and culture (syn: rebirth, renascence)
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...the 19th-century literary renaissance that prompted people to refer to Boston as the Athens of America...
She wrote her thesis on Renaissance Nativity scenes.
...a Renaissance portrait of a noble woman of Florence wearing a bejeweled coronal...
...during the Renaissance most men of science and the arts were fain to express their noblest thoughts in Latin, the lingua franca of the learned...
Michelangelo was one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance.
Fry was a connoisseur of Renaissance art.
The coming of the Renaissance was a head-on collision with the medieval system.
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