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"How many more tricks volition the rogues play on these innocent people!"--Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) past bearding

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Related: Protestantism, Renaissance

Visual arts: Mannerism, Northern Renaissance, Hans Baldung, Matthias Grünewald, Brueghel, Quentin Matsys, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Albrecht Dürer

Criminals: Elizabeth Báthory

Literature: Index Librorum Prohibitorum, Utopia, The Prince, The Volume of the Courtier, I Modi, picaresque novels

Writers: François Rabelais, Thomas More, Niccolò Machiavelli, Baldassare Castiglione, Pietro Aretino, Michel de Montaigne

More: 16th century fine art

The Image Breakers, c.1566 –1568 past Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder  The carving is besides known as Apologue of Iconoclasm. Although non especially sympathetic to the Calvinist image breakers, it is mainly critical of the Church. Thus the etching might accept been the principal reason why Gheeraerts had to flee to England in 1568. (British Museum, Dept. of Impress and Drawings, 1933.ane.1..iii)

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The 16th century (or XVIth century) is regarded past historians equally the century in which the rise of Western civilization and the Age of the Islamic Gunpowders occurred. The Renaissance in Italian republic and Europe saw the emergence of important artists, authors and scientists, and led to the foundation of important subjects which include accounting and political science. Copernicus proposed the heliocentric universe, which was met with strong resistance, and Tycho Brahe refuted the theory of angelic spheres through observational measurement of the 1572 appearance of a Milky way supernova. These events straight challenged the long-held notion of an immutable universe supported by Ptolemy and Aristotle, and led to major revolutions in astronomy and scientific discipline. Galileo Galilei became a champion of the new sciences, invented the beginning thermometer and fabricated substantial contributions in the fields of physics and astronomy, becoming a major figure in the Scientific Revolution.

Kingdom of spain and Portugal colonized large parts of Central and South America, followed by France and England in northern America and the bottom Antilles. The Portuguese became the masters of merchandise between Brazil, the coasts of Africa, their possessions in the Indies and the Moluccas in Oceania, whereas the Spanish came to dominate the greater Antilles, Mexico, Peru, and opened trade across the Pacific Ocean, linking the Americas with the Indies. English and French corsaires began to practice persistent theft of Castilian and Portuguese treasures. This era of colonialism established mercantilism equally the leading school of economical thought, where the economical system was viewed as a zero-sum game in which any proceeds past one party required a loss by another. The mercantilist doctrine encouraged the many intra-European wars of the period and arguably fueled European expansion and imperialism throughout the earth until the 19th century or early 20th century.

The Protestant Reformation in central and northern Europe gave a major blow to the say-so of the papacy and the Cosmic Church. In England, the British-Italian Alberico Gentili wrote the first book on public international police and divided secularism from catechism law and Cosmic theology. European politics became dominated by religious conflicts, with the groundwork for the epochal Xxx Years' War being laid towards the finish of the century.

In the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire continued to aggrandize, with the Sultan taking the title of Caliph, while dealing with a resurgent Persia. Iran and Iraq were caught by a major popularity of the Shiite sect of Islam under the rule of the Safavid dynasty of warrior-mystics, providing grounds for a Persia independent of the majority-Sunni Muslim globe.

Contents

• one General culture
• 2 Literature
  • 2.1 List of writers
  • ii.two Listing of titles
• 3 Visual fine art
  • iii.1 List of artists
  • three.ii List of works
• 4 Significant people
  • iv.1 Exploration
  • 4.2 Musicians and composers
  • four.3 Science and philosophy
• 5 See also

Full general culture

• The Renaissance, which started in Italy in the previous two century spreads all over Europe.
• Full general effects of the inventing of the printing press in the previous century.
• Anti-clericalism is i of the major popular forces underlying the reformation
• The Huguenot, members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France were a counterculture avant la lettre.
• During the century, in the visual arts the Loftier Renaissance gave way to Mannerism
• Rise of the Puritans in the United Kingdom and Huguenots in France
• French Wars of Religion
• Gargantua and Pantagruel is published. Written by François Rabelais. There is much crudity and scatological sense of humour too as a large amount of violence.
• Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world.
• The Reformation sought to reform the Catholic Church building in Western Europe. Many western Christians were troubled by what they saw every bit abuse within the Church, particularly involving the teaching and auction of indulgences.
• Medieval theatre gives way to Renaissance theatre with Morality plays and Lowest plays
• Towards the cease of the century the Geocentric modelis gradually replaced by the heliocentric model of Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.
• Amadis de Gaula, a landmark piece of work amid the knight-errantry Romances formed the earliest reading of many Renaissance and Baroque writers.
• The Portuguese, in the 16th century, were the offset to buy slaves from Due west African slavers and transport them beyond the Atlantic. In 1526, they completed the start transatlantic slave voyage to Brazil, and other Europeans soon followed.
• Buggery Deed 1533, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland's first civil sodomy constabulary.
• Medieval heretics of Anabaptism and Thomas Müntzer and John of Leiden
• A pair of epidemics struck the Mexican highlands in 1545 and 1576, causing an estimated 7 to 17 1000000 deaths.
• Fugger family

Literature

Literature in the 16th century was still the province of a happy few, the movable type printing press was simply a recent invention. Important books include Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais, In Praise of Folly past Erasmus, the anonymously published Lazarillo de Tormes and Heptameron past the Marguerite de Navarre.

Medieval romances were reduced to cheap and abrupt plots resembling modern comic books. Neither were the first collections of novels necessarily prestigious projects. They appeared with an enormous variety from folk tales over jests to stories told by Boccaccio and Chaucer, at present venerable authors.

A more than prestigious market of romances developed in the 16th century, with multi-volume works aiming at an audience which would subscribe to this production. The criticism levelled against romances by Chaucer'southward pilgrims grew in response both to the trivialisations and to the extended multi-volume "romances". Romances like the Amadis de Gaula led their readers into dream worlds of knighthood and fed them with ideals of a by no one could revitalise, or so the critics complained.

Italian authors like Machiavelli were amid those who brought the novel into a new format: while information technology remained a story of intrigue, ending in a surprising signal, the observations were now much finer: how did the protagonists manage their intrigue? How did they go along their secrets, what did they exercise when others threatened to find them?

Curiosities included Book of Kisses, Portrait of Lozana: The Brawny Andalusian Woman and The Book of the Prick.

List of writers

• Baldassare Castiglione, Italian author (1478 – 1529)
• Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish writer (1547 – 1616).
• John Donne, English metaphysical poet (1572 – 1631)
• John Ford, English language dramatist (1586 – c. 1640).
• Thomas Heywood, English dramatist (c, early 1570s – 1641)
• Ben Jonson, English dramatist c.1572 – 1637)
• Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (1558 – 1594)
• Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian writer (1469 – 1527)
• Christopher Marlowe, English poet and dramatist (1564 – 1593).
• Michel de Montaigne, French essayist (1533 – 1592).
• Thomas More, English political leader and author (1478 – 1535).
• François Rabelais, French author (c. 1493 – 1553).
• Pierre de Ronsard, French poet. Chosen the 'Prince of poets' of his generation. (1524 – 1585).
• William Shakespeare, English language playwright (1564 – 1616).
• Edmund Spenser, English language poet (c. 1552 – 1599)
• Lope de Vega, Spanish dramatist (1562 – 1635).

List of titles

• The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe
• Foxe'southward Book of Martyrs - John Foxe
• Books of secrets by various
• I Modi by Pietro Aretino
• The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione
• Blazon of the Ugly Tit (1535) by Clément Marot
• Utopia by Thomas More
• Gargantua and Pantagruel by Rabelais
• In Praise of Folly by Erasmus
• Heptameron past Queen of Navarre
• De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human body in Vii Books) – Andreas Vesalius
• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres) – Nicolaus Copernicus
• 90-five Theses

See besides

• New literature published in the 16th century
• Births and deaths in 16th century literature
• 16th century in poesy
• Early Modernistic literature
• Renaissance literature
• 17th century literature
• Emblem books

Visual art

artists of the Tudor court, Renaissance painting, Italian Renaissance painting, High Renaissance, Mannerism

In European fine art, Renaissance Classicism spawned Mannerism, a reaction confronting the idealist perfection of Classicism, employed distortion of light and spatial frameworks in society to emphasize the emotional content of a painting and the emotions of the painter. The work of El Greco is a particularly articulate example of Mannerism in painting during the late 16th, early 17th centuries. Northern Mannerism took longer to develop, and was largely a movement of the terminal half of the 16th century.

List of artists

• Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor (1475 – 1564).
• Caravaggio, Italian artist (1571 – 1610).
• Albrecht Dürer, German language artist, (1471 – 1528)
• Hans Holbein the Younger, High german artist, (1497 – 1543)
• Raphael, Italian painter, (1483 – 1520)
• Donato Bramante (1444 – March 11, 1514)
• Titian, Italian painter, (c. 1485 – 1576)
• Paolo Veronese, Italian painter, (1528 – April xix 1588)
• Leonardo da Vinci famous artist and inventor and scientist (1452 – 1519).
• Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (c. 1525 – September 9, 1569)
• January Brueghel the Elder (1568 – January xiii, 1625)
• Tintoretto (real name Jacopo Comin; September 29, 1518 – May 31, 1594)
• Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553)
• Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515–1586)
• El Greco (1541 – Apr vii, 1614) was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Castilian Renaissance
• Domenico Fontana (1543 – June 28, 1607) was an architect
• Bosch

List of works

• Mona Lisa (ca. 1503-1507) - Leonardo da Vinci
• The Seven Ages of Woman - Hans Baldung Grien (1484-1545)
• Venus of Urbino 1538 - Titian, (Oil on sail, 119 x 165 cm, Uffizi, Florence)
• Venus Standing in a Landscape (1529) - Lucas Cranach the Elder
• Lucrezia Borgia (1505-1508) - Bartolomeo Veneziano
• The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Detail from Panel from Isenheim Altarpiece), 1515 Matthies Grunewald,
• Triumph of Death, 1562, Pieter Brueghel the Elder
• School of Fontainebleau
• Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her Sisters c. 1595
• The Death of Lucretia by Joos van Cleve

Significant people

• Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known every bit Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (October 27, 1466/1469, Rotterdam– July 12, 1536 Basel was a Dutch Renaissance humanist and Catholic Christian theologian.
• Paracelsus (11 Nov or 17 December 1493 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland – 24 September 1541 in Salzburg, Austria)
• Henry Vii of England, founder of the Tudor dynasty. Introduced ruthlessly efficient mechanisms of taxation which restored the kingdom after a state of virtual bankruptcy due to the effects of the Wars of the Roses (1457 – 1509).
• György Dózsa, leader of the peasants' revolt in Hungary (1470 – 1514)
• Martin Luther, German religious reformer (1483 – 1546).
• Rex Henry VIII of England, founder of Anglicanism (1491 – 1547).
• Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Gild of Jesus (1491 – 1556).
• King Francis I of France, considered the outset Renaissance monarch of his Kingdom (1494 – 1547).
• Suleiman the Magnificent, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire. Conqueror and legal reformer (1494 – 1566).
• King Gustav I of Sweden, restored Swedish sovereignty and introduced Protestantism in Sweden (1496-1560).
• Charles Five, Holy Roman Emperor and the first to reign as King of Spain. Involved in near abiding conflict with France and the Ottoman Empire while promoting the Spanish colonization of the Americas (1500 – 1558).
• Michel Nostradamus, French astrologer and medico, author of Les Propheties, a volume of world prophecies (1503 – 1566).
• John Calvin, theologian, and reformer. Founder of Calvinism (1509 – 1564).
• Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564)
• Mary I of England. Attempted to counter the Protestant Reformation in her domains. Nick-named Encarmine Mary for her Religious persecution (1516 – 1558).
• John Knox (c. 1510 – 1572) was a Scottish chaplain and leader of the Protestant Reformation who is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination.
• Male monarch Philip Ii of Spain, self-proclaimed leader of Counter-Reformation (1527 – 1598).
• Ivan Iv of Russia, get-go Russian tsar (1533-1584).
• William the Silent, William I of Orange-Nassau, main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Castilian (1533-1584).
• Elizabeth I of England, central effigy of the Elizabethan era (1533 – 1603). She was the granddaughter of the aforementioned Henry 7, daughter of Henry VIII and paternal one-half-sister of Mary I. Though some within her courtroom thought of her but as a bastard, due to the fact that her father executed her supposedly criminal mother Anne Boleyn, her reign is still considered one of the greatest always in England's history.
• Edward VI of England, notable for further differentiating Anglicanism from the practices of the Roman Catholic Church (1537 – 1553).
• Lady Jane Greyness, Queen regnant of England and Ireland. Notably deposed by popular revolt (1537 – 1554).
• Mary I of Scotland, First female person caput of the House of Stuart (1542 – 1587).
• Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian painter and sculptor (1475 – 1564).
• Leonardo da Vinci famous artist and inventor and scientist (1452 – 1519).
• Raphael, Italian painter, (1483 – 1520)
• King Henry Iv of France and Navarre, ended the French Wars of Faith and reunited the kingdom nether his command (1553 – 1610).
• Giovanni Battista Ramusio, diplomat and secretary of council of 10 of Venice Italy, writer of Delle Navigationi et Viaggi. 3rd volume (terzo book) containing plan La Terra de Hochelaga showing village of Hochelaga (1585 – 1657). Meet [ane]
• Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit who traveled to Macau, Mainland china in 1582, and died in Beijing, (1552 – 1610)
• Andrea Palladio (November 30, 1508 – Baronial nineteen, 1580), one of the most influential builder of the Western architecture
• John of the Cantankerous

Exploration

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c. 1475 – 1519) – Spanish explorer. The kickoff European to cross the Isthmus of Panama and view the Pacific sea from American shores.
• Jacques Cartier (1491 – 1557) – French explorer. Discovered Canada.
• Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (c. 1510 – 1554) – Castilian explorer. Searched for the Seven Cities of Gold and discovered the G Canyon in the process
• Hernán Cortés, Spanish Conquistador (1485 – 1547).
• Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 1596) – English explorer. The outset English captain to sail around the world and survive.
• Juan Ponce de León (c. 1460 – 1521) – Spanish explorer. He explored Florida while attempting to locate a Fountain of Youth.
• Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese navigator who sailed around the globe (1480 – 1521).
• Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475 – 1541) – Castilian explorer. Conquered the Inca Empire.
• Hernando de Soto (c. 1496 – 1542) – Castilian explorer. Explored Florida, mainly northwest Florida, and discovered the Mississippi River.
• Giovanni da Verrazzano (c. 1485 – 1528) – Italian explorer for France. Explored the northeast declension of America, from about nowadays twenty-four hours South Carolina to Newfoundland.

Musicians and composers

16th century music

• John Dowland (1563–1626)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, (1525-1594)
• Jacopo Peri (1561–1633)

Science and philosophy

16th century philosophy

• Sir Francis Bacon, (1561 – 1626) was an English language philosopher, statesman, and essayist. He is likewise known equally a catalyst of the scientific revolution.
• Tycho Brahe, (1546 – 1601), Danish astronomer.
• Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher and astronomer/astrologer (1548 – 1600).
• Nicolaus Copernicus, (1473 – 1543) astronomer, developed the heliocentric (Sun-centered) theory using scientific methods.
• Galileo Galilei (1564 – 1642) was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major function in the scientific revolution.
• Konrad Gessner (1516 – 1565) was a Swiss naturalist, bibliographer, Botanist, His three-volume Historiae Animalium (1551-1558) is considered the offset of modern zoology
• William Gilbert, as well known as Gilbard, 1544 – 1603) was an English language physician and a natural philosopher.
• Gerardus Mercator (5 March 1512 – 2 Dec 1594), famous cartographer
• Andreas Vesalius (Brussels, December 31, 1514 – Zakynthos, October fifteen, 1564) was an anatomist, physician, and author of one of the nearly influential books on homo anatomy, De humani corporis fabrica (On the Workings of the Homo Body). Vesalius is oft referred to equally the founder of modern man anatomy.

See also

• Listing of Renaissance humanists

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