Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

The aim of this project is to make available scholarly descriptions of TCD manuscripts on-line with links to digital images from the manuscripts themselves. Eavan O’Brien, M.A., Ph.D: Early-Modern ...

Petrarch, dreaming in raptures over his Greek manuscript of Homer, which he could not read; the great throngs hurrying out to see the uncovered tomb of the Roman Julia; Agostino, writing to his ...

This fragment is a single folio of the Archimedes Palimpsest, a manuscript originally copied in the middle or later 10th century. Credit: Cambridge, University Library, Creative Commons, CC BY NC 3.0 ...

They admired Greek and Roman antiquity and the Renaissance, periods that elevated individualism and scholarship over Christian dogma. They associated the Middle Ages with regression.

Manuscript on parchment of the anonymous Rouen translation, with commentary by Bernardo Lapini, Rouen and Paris, illuminated by the Master of Petrarch's Triumphs and Jean Serpin (circa 1503).

From August 23 to September 11, 2022, Palazzo Zuckermann in Padua presents the exhibition Tra Oriente e Occidente. Byzantine Scholars and Greek Students in the Paduan Renaissance, curated by Niccolò ...

The Renaissance may have been a time of great scientific and artistic innovation, but the era’s medical treatments still had a ways to go before they became safe and effective. Here are a few ...

The manuscript could garner between $120,000 and $180,000. Brooker’s library includes some 1,000 books printed by Aldine Press, a famous publishing house started in 1494.

One highlight from the sale is an early manuscript of Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting, containing all of its original 375 chapters and 56 illustrations in ink. Following his death in ...