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Showing 1 to 20 of 218 for “"the Renaissance"”.
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Patronage: The Renaissance and Today
… as it will be discussed in this context, is the "money and support...given to an artist, organization, etc." (Merriam-Webster.com). The word itself comes from "patronus" in the Latin language, meaning "defender, protector...advocate" (Harper, Online Etymology). The concept of patronage …
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Phonological Theory in the Renaissance
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Cupid's Victimization of the Renaissance Male
<p>Following the path of the use of the Petrarchan sonnet in Renaissance England, this article explores why this specific form was so prevalent from the court of Henry VIII to that of his daughter, Elizabeth I. The article pays specific attention to the works of Sir Philip Sidney, Shakespeare, …
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After the Renaissance: Art and Harlem in the 1960s
… has carried a symbolic weight that transcends the physical confines of upper Manhattan. In 1925, the philosopher and critic Alain Locke dubbed Harlem a “mecca,” a spiritual home that attracted people of African descent from around the world. Locke dubbed the cultural movement he chronicled in …
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The Renaissance and The Rise of Modern Social Thought
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Reanimating the Renaissance: Aesthetes and Art History, 1873-1914
This thesis examines responses to the Italian Renaissance by aesthetes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It argues that aesthetes ‘reanimated’ the renaissance across diverse genres and media by negotiating the boundaries between art and life. Moving away from a discourse-centred …
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Risk free to risk taking developing the renaissance manager
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1985.
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A study of the Renaissance Program in a high school
<p>The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and validity of the Renaissance Program in a high school. The study involved the gathering of statistical data and conducting objective interviews. The resulting information provides the administration and the reader with an …
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The self and self-conscious theatre on the Renaissance stage
The thesis provides a timely re-evaluation of self-conscious theatre, or metatheatre, in relation to emerging notions of the intersubjective self in early modern culture. It proposes that the self-conscious theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries produces a concomitant self-consciousness …
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H₂O D.C.: The Renaissance of Water Culture in D.C.
… bureaucracy, litigation, legislation, and the trading of power and resources. For this reason outsiders are both attracted to and repelled from our city. For many of us transplants and government workers, a large portion of our collective self-image is dictated by the ebb and flow of our …
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Metatheatricality on the Renaissance Stage, the Audience and the Material Space
My dissertation examines how early modern metatheater enabled the Renaissance stage and its original audience to develop a complex and symbiotic relationship. Metatheater--by which I mean a particular mode of theatre, in which actors, playwrights, dramatic characters and/or (in particular) …
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Filarete's Body: Unpacking the Pregnancy Analogy in the Renaissance Patronage Context
… Florentine architect Il Filarete authored the first illustrated book on architecture, with a distinct pedagogical agenda to teach his patron to build nobly. Written as a dialogical narrative, taking place between a patron and his architect, the treatise's pedagogical tone unfolds as a form …
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"Falling to a devilish exercise": Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage
The enormous amount of research on the subject of early modern magic indicates clearly that magical thought occupied a significant place in contemporary mental patterns. Its existence was widespread enough to cause popular prejudice against its most esoteric forms combined with tacit acceptance of …
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The Renaissance Reception of Terence: Grueninger's Editions of Terence, Strasbourg, 1496/1499
The frontispieces succeed in focusing the play for readers. However, the frontispieces and texts are a distorting lens in two respects. The central mediating characters are often very minor characters in the plays themselves, and Terentian ambiguity is systematically ignored. Things are magnified …
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From Cyprus to Venice: Art, Exchange and Exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean
This thesis reveals a culturally sophisticated Cypriot elite that moved with ease between Cyprus and Venice, between Orthodox and Latin devotions, between icon painting and up-to-date Italian artworks. Arranged in the form of microhistories, the present work discusses how the insular nobles …
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