Europe in the Renaissance
Subtitle: metamorphoses 1400-1600
By: edited by the Swiss National Museum, [Erika Hebeisen] ; texts by Bernard Aikema [and twelve others]
Contributors: Schweizerisches Landesmuseum
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9783775740739; 9783775740722; 9783905875423
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Renaissance Art; Exhibitions
Description: 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.
Notes: Catalogue of the exhibition in Swiss National Museum, Landesmuseum Zurich, August 1 to November 27, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Essays; title: Contours of a global culture.; title: Renaissances  -- Peter Burke ;; title: How the Renaissance began :; title: Prerequisites of a world culture  -- Bernd Roeck ;; title: Cultural dynamism on ancient foundations :; title: Renaissance humanism  -- Nicolette Mout ;; title: Renaissance and religion :; title: The new worldliness of faith  -- Heinz Schilling; title: New perspectives on new developments.; title: Book printing in Europe  -- Urs B. Leu ;; title: The Renaissance and the new world  -- Felipe Fernández-Armesto ;; title: Europe, Renaissance, and the emergence of modern science  -- Toby E. Huff; title: Winged ideas and migrated images.; title: The arts of Italy and the European Renaissance  -- Bernard Aikema ;; title: "Inducing the Muses to cross the Alps" :; title: Dynamics of the Renaissance in the Swiss confederacy  -- Achatz von Müller ;; title: The Renaissance of the everyday  -- Caroline Campbell; title: Uncertainties.; title: "Sol oculus aeternus omnia videns" :; title: Occult currents in the Renaissance  -- Patrizia Castelli ;; title: The tragic Renaissance (1560-1640)  -- Robert Muchembled; title: Epilogue.; title: Outlook :; title: Pandora's box  -- Bernd Roeck -- Catalogue; title: Setting the stage --; title: The rebirth of antiquity --; title: The image revolution --; title: The media revolution --; title: Images of mankind --; title: New worlds --; title: Measuring the universe --; title: Man and nature --; title: The European Renaissance --; title: The Renaissance in Switzerland --; title: Everyday life --; title: The ocean of the future ---- Appendix.