renaissance
复兴,文艺复兴,复兴时期,复兴运动
Definitions
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- : the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
- : the forms and treatments in art used during this period.
- : any similar revival in the world of art and learning.
- : a renewal of life, vigor, interest, etc.; rebirth; revival: a moral renaissance.
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- : of, relating to, or suggestive of the European Renaissance of the 14th through the 17th centuries: Renaissance attitudes.
- : noting or pertaining to the group of architectural styles existing in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries as adaptations of ancient Roman architectural details or compositional forms to contemporary uses, characterized at first by the free and inventive use of isolated details, later by the more imitative use of whole orders and compositional arrangements, with great attention to the formulation of compositional rules after the precepts of Vitruvius and the precedents of existing ruins, and at all periods by an emphasis on symmetry, exact mathematical relationships between parts, and a general effect of simplicity and repose.
- : noting or pertaining to any of the various adaptations of this group of styles in foreign architecture characterized typically by the playful or grotesque use of isolated details in more or less traditional buildings.
- : noting or pertaining to the furnishings or decorations of the Renaissance, in which motifs of classical derivation frequently appear.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
He is a designer, a technologist, and a Renaissance man without peer.
The “chain” attacks after a counterattack turned Ezio into a Renaissance John Wick.
The plexiglass creates a sort of terrarium of a Renaissance garden.
This grandiose wine “jail” is designed out of wrought iron with solid iron bars in a Renaissance inspired arched and scrollwork design.
Things seem to have gotten out of hand after the Renaissance.
The demonic ‘anti-Santa’ enjoys an unlikely renaissance as we learn to embrace our inner pagan.
Lee makes a convincing case that the loveliness of much Renaissance art is inversely related to the moral ugliness of its patrons.
The cardinals had such a bad reputation that the very term “cardinal” became an insult in Renaissance Rome.
It may not be a story the Vatican wants told, but such nasty behavior is also a part of the Renaissance.
But the flaws and peccadilloes of Renaissance artists like Michelangelo pale beside the misdeeds of patrons and pontiffs.
The organ is inclosed in a case designed by Mr. Arthur Hill after old renaissance examples.
His history endeavors to show that the Felibrean was not a spontaneous springing into existence.