They were only challenged and improved upon when a new generation of Renaissance doctors were allowed to dissect human bodies. Andreas Vesalius, 1514 - 1564, was the author of influential anatomy ...

And there’s real historical precedent for this: The Italian Renaissance may have begun before the 14th-century plague known as the Black Death, but there’s a strong case the disease—in both ...

This we still call the "Renaissance." But the "Renaissance" is nothing more than air, a myth created by 14th-century Italians to tell themselves they were different - better - than their ancestors.

Beginning at the end of the 14th Century, the Renaissance created a new type of man, triggering economic, scientific, technical, religious, social and cultural developments that are unique in history.

The Renaissance was an astonishing period of ... writing was largely the preserve of monks or senior churchmen. But in the 14th Century writers such as Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio began ...

Spanning from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in the 14th century, the Middle Ages encompassed a thousand years of social, cultural, and religious upheaval, and — most importantly ...

The altarpiece consists of an 18th-century painting of John of Nepomuk, a 14th-century Czech priest ... uncovered so far comprises a stunning, Renaissance-era altarpiece. On the central panel ...

Titled “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350,” the show features more than 100 artworks made just before the Italian Renaissance ... arrived on the scene a century later would look so ...

Archaeologists excavating Oslo's medieval harbor have unearthed the remnants of a 14th-century gauntlet ... discarded objects from the medieval and Renaissance periods, including shipwrecks ...