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Renaissance|rɪˈneɪsəns, F. rənɛsɑ̃s| Also with small initial. [F., f. renaître to be born again, after naissance birth: cf. renascence.] 1. a. The great revival of art and letters, under the influence of classical models, which began in Italy in the 14th century and continued during the 15th and 16th; also, the period during which this movement was in progress.
1845Ford Handbk. Spain ii. 745 At the bright period of the Renaissance, when fine art was a necessity and pervaded every relation of life. 1854Lowell Keats Prose Wks. 1896 I. 244 In him we have an example of the renaissance going on almost under our own eyes. 1873Pater Renaissance 2 The word Renaissance indeed is now generally used to denote..a whole complex movement of which that revival of classical antiquity was but one element or symptom. b. ellipt. The style of art or architecture developed in, and characteristic of, this period.
1840T. A. Trollope Summer in Brittany II. 234 That heaviest and least graceful of all possible styles, the ‘renaissance’ as the French choose to term it. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. i. 23 This rationalistic art is the art commonly called Renaissance, marked by a return to pagan systems. 1859Jephson & Reeve Brittany 268 The cathedral front is a huge mass of barbarous Renaissance. c. attrib. with architecture, building, etc.
1842Queen Victoria Jrnl. 14 Sept. (1980) 37 We..saw the fine greenhouse the Duke has built, all in stone, in the Renaissance style. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. App. xi. 370 A choice little piece of description this, of the Renaissance painters. 1857― Pol. Econ. Art ii. 103 Verona possesses..the loveliest Renaissance architecture of Italy. 1860G. A. Spottiswoode in Vac. Tour 98 We..contented ourselves with what we saw of its heavy-looking renaissance buildings. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework, Renaissance Braid Work.—This is also known as Renaissance Lace. 1930R. Fry Let. 12 Sept. (1972) II. 650 [Montrésor] has..a very ambitious and rather good Renaissance Gothic church. It's odd what a really good and convenient style that makes—in fact it does Gothic much better with less fuss than Gothic itself. 1963A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 190 Airy, Renaissance-style stucco arches. 1976Early Music IV. 512/2 (Advt.), Renaissance viols from 16th-century models. 1980I. Murdoch Nuns & Soldiers i. 40 A programme of Renaissance music. d. Special Combs. Renaissance humanism = humanism 4; Renaissance man, one who exhibits the virtues of an idealized man of the Renaissance; also fig.
1906W. H. Woodward Stud. Educ. Renaissance vii. 128 That the Frenchmen in their King's train should be profoundly impressed with the Renaissance man as they found him declared in Rodrigo Borgia, and his enigmatic son, in Ludovico Sforza or Ercole d'Este, is no cause for wonder. 1948W. K. Ferguson Renaissance in Hist. Thought iii. 71 Bayle..interpreted Renaissance humanism as an enlightened revolt against barbarism. Ibid. v. 128 The discontented rebels against the restrictions of contemporary bourgeois society..took the lead in the idealization of the Renaissance man, combining the cult of genius with that of free, egoistic personality. 1955P. O. Kristeller Classics & Renaissance Thought i. 10 Renaissance humanism was not as such a philosophical tendency or system, but rather a cultural and educational program which emphasized and developed an important but limited area of studies. 1970E. Pace Saberlegs (1971) xiv. 132, I knew your father... A fine man. So many-sided. What I believe you would call a Renaissance man. 1975Language LI. 443 Renaissance humanism was responsible for the most successful system of syntactic analysis to be conceived prior to the advent of explicit syntactic theorizing in the 20th century. 1977Time 8 Aug. 32/3 At 50, Hood is the Renaissance man of sailing; he designed, cut the sails and outfitted Independence, the first man in history to control every aspect of a 12-tonner from drawing board to helm. 2. Any revival, or period of marked improvement and new life, in art, literature, etc.
1872Morley Voltaire 4 Voltairism may stand for the name of the Renaissance of the eighteenth century. 1882Athenæum 23 Dec. 857/2 The most satisfactory among the signs of a theatrical renaissance. 1925, etc. [see Negro Renaissance s.v. Negro 7]. 1969A. Cockburn in Cockburn & Blackburn Student Power 18 The astonishing works of Mao Tse Tung..bear witness to the flowering of the May 4 Movement which..has justly been called the Chinese Renaissance. 1969Physics Bull. June 221/1 The ‘renaissance’ in optics, one of the oldest disciplines in physics, has been brought about mainly by the advent of the laser. 1973Black World Sept. 95 Arna Bontemps was not of the ‘Harlem Renaissance’... His first novel and his poems..appeared just when..the Renaissance flopped. 1975Nature 3 Apr. 391/1 A renaissance occurred in 1969 when Adler proved that bacteria have specific chemoreceptors. Hence Reˈnaissancer, one who participates in a renaissance; = next; Reˈnaissancist, an advocate or student of a renaissance; also attrib. or as adj.
1895J. M. Falkner Lost Stradivarius 261 Neo-Platonism..has enthralled..many minds from Proclus and Julian to Augustine and the Renaissancists. 1899G. B. Shaw Let. 17 Oct. (1972) ii. 113 The mosque [of Sulieman]..is a successful attempt to take St Sophia and give it refined grandeur in the spirit of Brunelleschi and the early dignified Renaissancers. 1949Renaissancer [see Brahmsian a. and n.]. 1973Compar. Stud. Soc. & Hist. XV. 473 That a near⁓century of scholarship..should fail indeed to validate even the concept of a Renaissance, would appear to have little if any bearing on..the prosperity of the guild of Renaissancists in our time. Ibid. 478 In characteristic Renaissancist fashion. |