Italian Renaissance
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- noun
- /ɪˈtæljən ˌrɛnəˈsɑns/
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Renacimiento italiano
- The innovations in perspective and realism during the Italian Renaissance laid the groundwork for modern art.
- Italian Renaissance art
- early Italian Renaissance
Examples
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Baylor and I were taking the same big lecture course on the art of the Italian Renaissance.
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A keen student of the Italian Renaissance, his poetry is full of references and buried allusions to the masters.
Blog text (32) -
I first decided to study sixteenth-century Rome because I was especially interested in the Italian Renaissance.
Academic text (2010) -
Yet for decades, the Italian Renaissance princes had declined to support the popes' proposed alliance.
Academic text (2003) -
Carlo Ginzburg is Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Academic text (1995) -
It was fought against the backdrop of the Italian Renaissance and Protestant Reformation, a complex and sprawling conflict that would last six decades.
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Concurrently, the taste of the French aristocracy succumbed to the Italian Renaissance, and the medieval "primitives" fell out of fashion.
Academic text (1992) -
Furthermore, Placida y Vitoriano was written not in Spain but in Rome at the height of the Italian Renaissance (1513).
Academic text (1997) -
The corpus of Hermetic writings had been rediscovered in the West at the time of the Italian Renaissance, and subsequently the writings became a catchall for other mystical systems that bore a family resemblance.
Academic text (2010) -
The art and philosophy of the Italian Renaissance transformed the cultural landscape of Europe.
Synonyms
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A period in Europe from the 14th to 17th century with new art, science, and learning
A period in Europe when art, learning, and ancient Greek and Roman ideas became popular again
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'Italian' specifies the country/national context and 'Renaissance' denotes the historical period of renewed interest in art and learning. A B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer this refers to the Renaissance period that took place in Italy; this is a straightforward modifier+noun combination common across languages and not idiomatic.
Etymology
Italian Renaissance comes from the word Renaissance, which means 'rebirth'. In Italy, artists and thinkers looked back to old Greek and Roman art and ideas and brought them to life again, so the phrase means a time of new art and learning in Italy.