“Nowadays the house would be called a stately home”: Pastoral Relocations in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by John Bull

“…In this paper, I will consider the ideological implications of this paradox in relation to the playwright’s use of pastoral models that date from the English Renaissance, and yet reconfigure models of earlier post-second war British theatre, models that – according to many critical accounts – had long been superseded and abandoned. …”
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I trovatori come fondamento dell'identità occitana: la linea Jaufré Rudèl-Jean de Nostredame-Frédéric Mistral by Gilda Caiti-Russo

“…Rudèl devient ainsi l’incarnation tour à tour de l’amour héroïque à l’intention d’un public italien du XIIIe siècle, des anciens fastes d’une noblesse provençale à la recherche d’une nouvelle identité à la Renaissance, du Romantisme allemand et de l’illusion mistralienne au XIXe siècle.…”
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El Greco's Italian paintings (1560-76) based on Bible texts by Estelle Alma Maré

“…Even during his years as an apprentice El Greco’s art is proof that he aspired to the highest humanly accessible values exemplified by Renaissance artistic theory, humanism and Christian spirituality — all of which later came to fruition in an unprecedented original combination in Toledo, Spain, where he settled permanently in 1577. …”
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Social and Cultural Sphere and the Development of the Digital Economy by S. T. Sagitov

“…The prevailing opinion is that the digital technologies will be an impulse to the cultural Renaissance of Humankind.The article reports that the development of the social and cultural sphere is a critical part of the further technological development of the society. …”
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A Living Architecture for the Digital Era by Carlo Ratti

“…In doing so, he paved the way for Renaissance classicism: architecture focused on precision and representation through drafting rather than approximate construction by artisans. …”
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Density by Claire Harper

“…The publication of the planning agenda Towards an Urban Renaissance in 1999 marked a turning point in the approach towards urban development in the UK and specifically towards urban density. …”
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TEISĖS FILOSOFIJA SENAJAME VILNIAUS UNIVERSITETE by Romanas Plečkaitis

“…The following problems of the philosophy of law were discussed: an origin and a foundation of law, a transmission of the legislation, the law as the mean of realization the Christian justice, the theory of statute, the branches of law. The Renaissance philosophy of law in Lithuania criticized the reality of Polish-Lithuanian state, urged to extend the public freedoms, the limits and a content of a civil law. …”
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Ombres et transparences, de Vinci aux calques numériques by Marie-Madeleine Martinet

“…Optical devices have since the Renaissance superimposed shadow and transparency; they have evolved from image-making to the continuous representation of motion in 19th-century toys based on the rotation of silhouettes; copying machines, derived from ancient legends defining shadows as the image of persons, led to 18th-century experiments in the simulation of motion. …”
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Espace urbain et gentrification aux États-Unis, évolution des interprétations by Laurence Gervais-Linon

“…Other studies show that post-industrial urban space is very similar to pre-industrial urban space, such as that of the Renaissance cities. (Kotkin) But Gentrification could be much more than this, a part of a much larger shift in the political economy and culture of the late 20th and early 21st century.This paper focuses on the various theories linked to the radical reapropriation of many central and inner cities in North America in the past three decades.…”
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Macro phenomena vs micro responses. Multiscale approaches in the dynamic relationship between envelope and context by Maria Teresa Lucarelli, Martino Milardi, Mariateresa Mandaglio, Caterina Claudia Musarella

“…On many fronts, it is evident that this need is determining an acceleration towards a transformation that has concrete Renaissance characteristics. An example is the use of the ‘multiscalar vision’ in research as a useful criterion for understanding phenomena, both material and immaterial. …”
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Une norme pour la langue d’oc ? Les débuts d’une histoire sans fin by Philippe Martel

“…Laquelle de ses variantes dialectales choisir comme la plus digne d'être l'organe de la renaissance (faut-il, d'ailleurs, obligatoirement en privilégier une ?) …”
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Les monstres d’Aubrey Beardsley et le « grotesque darwinien » by Catherine Delyfer

“…The Paterian individual described in the conclusion of The Renaissance (1873) is someone who is traversed by intense but ephemeral sensations and emotions, and whose body and psyche are shaped by the Heraclitean experience of the perpetual flux constantly making and unmaking him (or her). …”
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Obrazy války v italských městech v kázáních observanta a v cestovním deníku řeholníka z první poloviny 15. století by Jan Stejskal

“… At the beginning of the Renaissance, nobody asked questions about the natural state of mankind – that is, whether it is war or peace – as they had verifiably done on the threshold of the High Middle Ages. …”
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Acceptable Amazons? Female Warriors on the English and French Early Modern Stage by Nathalie Rivère de Carles

“…Mettant en perspective la représentation et l’identité féminines, nous explorerons les stratégies d’acceptation de la figure emblématique sans cesse resémiotisée de l’Amazone à la Renaissance.…”
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Społeczne podstawy poznania i rozwoju – konstruktywizm społeczno-kulturowy Lwa S. Wygotskiego. Nowe odczytania, rekonstrukcje, tropy epistemologiczno-metodologiczne by Ewa Filipiak

“…For many years the interest in Vygotsky’s concept has been experiencing a renaissance all over the world, also in Poland. The cognitively sophisticated concept has original terminology. …”
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Montaigne and the rise of modern cultural diplomacy [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations, 3 not approved] by Gabriel Gherasim

“…Specifically, the consequential insights of Montaigne's post-Renaissance humanist stance highly impacted upon certain salient developments in the field of cultural diplomacy that could be analytically framed as i) a personal imprint on reforming political culture(s) tantamount to a conspicuous signature in the field of cultural pedagogy, and ii) a commendable approach to cultural pluralism, and an influential modus operandi in the practice of cultural relations. …”
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Disseminated histoplasmosis and hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis: A case report by Ruth C. Angrand, Lauren Telesca, Muhammad Aslam

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À propos de la datation des marques du groupe de Clarianus sur les terres cuites architecturales antiques by Jean-Claude Béal

“…Roman bricks stamped with the names Clarianus and Nebrigiac were used in the construction of the Gier aqueduct and potentially offer a clue to its date.Roman bricks bearing the Clarianus stamp have been known since the Renaissance and their dating has been a matter of discussion since 1900. …”
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Idololatria Vilnensis: The Confessional Debates of Jesuits and Protestants on Sacred Images in the 16th Century Lithuania by Tomas Riklius

“…Wolan’s critique, while rooted in theology, also touched on the Renaissance humanist perspective on aesthetics to question the sensual appeal of Catholic sacred art. …”
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The Points of Concurrence Theory in Guidobaldo del Monte’s Scenography by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“… Theatrical scenography was one of the privileged applications of perspective in the Renaissance. The court theater, characteristic of those years, is structured around a frontal perspective installation developed in depth. …”
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