Renaissance Era facts
While investigating facts about Renaissance Era Music and Renaissance Era Years, I found out little known, but curios details like:
During the Renaissance Era, Europeans frequently consumed human body parts as medicine, including crumbled Egyptian mummies, powdered skulls, blood (harvested still warm from newly executed criminals), and human fat.
how did renaissance scholarship differ from that of previous eras?
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was among the first celebrities from the European Renaissance era who supported vegetarianism
What were the approximate dates of the renaissance era?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across answering what era came after the renaissance. Here are 10 of the best facts about Renaissance Era Clothing and Renaissance Era Art I managed to collect.
what renaissance-era?
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There are four piles of uncarved stone atop the four columns on the front façade of The Met. These were originally meant to be sculptures but money ran out, and the stone piles remain today. They would have been sculptures representing the Egyptian, Greek, Renaissance, and Modern art eras.
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Renaissance composer Orlando de Lassus was kidnapped more than 3 times as a boy because of his beautiful singing voice. He went onto become one of the greatest composers of his era.
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How manuscripts were made in the middle ages and early renaissance eras
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Musicians during the Renaissance Era were executed for including tritones in their music.
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As late as the Renaissance era, doctors used to make a 'burr hole' in the skull to expose dura matter thinking it was the correct treatment for seizures and other ailments.
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Renaissance era Jewish-Italian merchants used to borrow and lend money over a "*banco*" (bench) contributing to the modern day use of the word "bank".
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Even the hospital of Florence, italy is a renaissance-era work of art built in the 13th century. Its decorated by frescos attributed to Michelozzo among others and Leonardo used to perform autopsies in the same building
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Nicolo Machiavelli's most famous work, The Prince, was a satire of Renaissance-era Italian politics
