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  • I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.

  • The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

  • Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  • A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

    Codice Trivulziano 281
  • I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed, which was basically anybody over the age of 30, "One of the great minds of the 12th century", and one day I thought, "I don't know anything about the 12 century." So I started buying books, reading about it, and I discovered it was a period of great flowering, it was a Renaissance before what we think is the Renaissance, the Italian Renaissance of the 16th century.

    Book   Reading   Italian  
  • While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

    Life   Death   Eulogy  
    Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.260, OUP Oxford
  • Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through the window or door-frame of a palace. For the Cro-Magnons, space is a metaphysical arena of continually intermittent appearances and disappearances.

    Art   Italian   Space  
    "Past present" by John Berger, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
  • In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

    1969 The French Lieutenant's Woman, ch.10.
  • Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

    Italian   Men   Palaces  
  • The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

  • n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

    Love   Funny   Life  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It's a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it's the togetherness of modern technology.

  • Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

    "The Molecular Biology of Cancer: A Bridge from Bench to Bedside". Book by Stella Pelengaris, p. 376, March 5, 2013.
  • Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

    Art   Hands   Doe  
  • I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

    Funny   Humorous   Food  
  • From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

    Art   Italian   World  
    Interview with Kimberly Brooks, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2010.
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