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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
renaissance
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Renaissance man
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
urban
Urban abandonment or urban renaissance Power, Anne.
▪ The final report, Towards an urban renaissance, was published in June 1999 and included over a hundred recommendations106.
▪ Focuses on encouraging urban renaissance, securing a prosperous and multi-purpose countryside and promoting increased use of public transport.
■ VERB
enjoy
▪ It is easy to understand why the fears of technology generated unemployment should enjoy a renaissance during a world recession.
▪ Even family activities like sledding and tobogganing seem to be enjoying a renaissance.
▪ He enjoys all this renaissance art, full of noble statesmen, florid gestures and people being resurrected.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Renaissance art/furniture/architecture etc
▪ Little Renaissance furniture survives intact, and the present catalogue will go a long way to furthering its understanding.
▪ That year, several superb works of Renaissance art were sold without publicity to private investors.
the Renaissance
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ American classical music is enjoying a renaissance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As a result, our society has been diverted from the verge of a technological renaissance into a low-paying service economy.
▪ Since the 1980's there has been a renaissance of interest in ethnography.
▪ That is why I urge a renaissance of local government in the context of a more pluralistic and diverse society.
▪ The renaissance of politics is perhaps the most important recent development.
▪ The final report, Towards an urban renaissance, was published in June 1999 and included over a hundred recommendations106.
▪ This part of the Fashion District has been vibrant long before we started talking Downtown renaissance.
▪ Today the ensemble are well established and perform a wide and varied repertoire ranging from renaissance to contemporary music.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Renaissance

Renaissance \Re*nais`sance"\ (F. re-n[asl]`s[aum]Ns"; E. r[-e]-n[=a]s"sans), n. [F., fr. rena[^i]tre to be born again. Cf. Renascence.] A new birth, or revival. Specifically:

  1. The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival of classical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and the similar revival following in other countries.

  2. The style of art which prevailed at this epoch.

    The Renaissance was rather the last stage of the Middle Ages, emerging from ecclesiastical and feudal despotism, developing what was original in medi[ae]val ideas by the light of classic arts and letters.
    --J. A. Symonds (Encyc. Brit.).

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Renaissance

"great period of revival of classical-based art and learning in Europe that began in the fourteenth century," 1840, from French renaissance des lettres, from Old French renaissance, literally "rebirth," usually in a spiritual sense, from renastre "grow anew" (of plants), "be reborn" (Modern French renaître), from Vulgar Latin *renascere, from Latin renasci "be born again, rise again, reappear, be renewed," from re- "again" (see re-) + nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus).\n

\nAn earlier term for it was revival of learning (1785). In general usage, with a lower-case r-, "a revival" of anything that has long been in decay or disuse (especially of learning, literature, art), it is attested from 1872. Renaissance man is first recorded 1906.

Wiktionary
renaissance

n. 1 A rebirth or revival. 2 (qualifier: historic) The transition period between medieval and modern times, the Renaissance.

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Renaissance (disambiguation)

The Renaissance was a European cultural movement spanning the 14th to the 17th century. It began as the:

  • Italian Renaissance

Renaissance may also refer to:

Renaissance (Mickey Finn's T. Rex album)
Alternate uses: see Renaissance (disambiguation).

Renaissance is a 2002 live album by Mickey Finn's T. Rex. The band plays songs made popular by the original T. Rex during the late 1960s and 1970s.

Renaissance (Lionel Richie album)

Renaissance is Lionel Richie's sixth solo album, which was released on October 16, 2000. Bonus tracks on international albums include "Shout It To The World", "Just Can't Say Goodbye", and "Angel (Boogieman Extended Remix)." "Tonight" was produced by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins.

Renaissance (Renaissance album)

Renaissance is the self-titled debut album by British progressive rock band Renaissance, released in 1969.

Renaissance (music)
Renaissance (Fabergé egg)

The Renaissance egg is a jewelled agate Easter egg made by Michael Perchin under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1894. The egg was made for Alexander III of Russia, who presented it to his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna.

It was the last egg that Alexander presented to Maria.

Renaissance (novel)

Renaissance is a science fiction novel by author Raymond F. Jones. The novel was originally serialized in the magazine Astounding in 1944. It was published in 1951 by Gnome Press in an edition of 4,000 copies. It was reprinted by Pyramid Books in 1963 and subsequently under the title Man of Two Worlds.

Renaissance

The Renaissance (, ) is a period in Europe, from the 14th to the 17th century, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.

The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its own invented version of humanism, derived from the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of all things." This new thinking became manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature. Early examples were the development of perspective in oil painting and the recycled knowledge of how to make concrete. Although the invention of metal movable type sped the dissemination of ideas from the later 15th century, the changes of the Renaissance were not uniformly experienced across Europe.

As a cultural movement, the Renaissance encompassed innovative flowering of Latin and vernacular literatures, beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of learning based on classical sources, which contemporaries credited to Petrarch; the development of linear perspective and other techniques of rendering a more natural reality in painting; and gradual but widespread educational reform. In politics, the Renaissance contributed to the development of the customs and conventions of diplomacy, and in science to an increased reliance on observation and inductive reasoning. Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term "Renaissance man".

There is a consensus that the Renaissance began in Florence, in the 14th century. Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time: its political structure; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks. Other major centres were northern Italian city-states such as Venice, Genoa, Milan, Bologna, and finally Rome during the Renaissance Papacy.

The Renaissance has a long and complex historiography, and, in line with general scepticism of discrete periodizations, there has been much debate among historians reacting to the 19th-century glorification of the "Renaissance" and individual culture heroes as "Renaissance men", questioning the usefulness of Renaissance as a term and as a historical delineation. The art historian Erwin Panofsky observed of this resistance to the concept of "Renaissance":

It is perhaps no accident that the factuality of the Italian Renaissance has been most vigorously questioned by those who are not obliged to take a professional interest in the aesthetic aspects of civilization—historians of economic and social developments, political and religious situations, and, most particularly, natural science—but only exceptionally by students of literature and hardly ever by historians of Art.

Some observers have called into question whether the Renaissance was a cultural "advance" from the Middle Ages, instead seeing it as a period of pessimism and nostalgia for classical antiquity, while social and economic historians, especially of the longue durée, have instead focused on the continuity between the two eras, which are linked, as Panofsky observed, "by a thousand ties".

The word Renaissance, literally meaning "Rebirth" in French, first appeared in English in the 1830s. The word also occurs in Jules Michelet's 1855 work, Histoire de France. The word Renaissance has also been extended to other historical and cultural movements, such as the Carolingian Renaissance and the Renaissance of the 12th century.

Renaissance (The Miracles album)

Renaissance (Tamla T-325L) was a critically acclaimed 1973 album by R&B group The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label, noted as the first-ever album by the group not to feature original lead singer Smokey Robinson on lead vocals. Instead, his replacement, new lead singer, Billy Griffin did the lead chores on this album.

Renaissance (Bakalar)

Renaissance is a public artwork by American artist David Bakalar, located at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C., United States.

Renaissance (Diablo album)

Renaissance is the 2nd studio album by Finnish thrash metal band Diablo. It debuted at #14 on the Finnish albums chart.

Renaissance (song)

"Renaissance" is a song by British electronic group M People. It was released in February 1994 as the fourth and final single from their second album Elegant Slumming. In Australia, "Renaissance" was released as the third single from the album. It was written by Mike Pickering and Paul Heard and produced by M People. The song peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart following their first win for Best British Dance Act at the 1994 BRIT Awards.

Renaissance (railcar)

The Renaissance fleet is a set of intercity railroad cars owned and operated by Via Rail Canada.

The cars were built by Metro Cammell in the mid-1990s for the proposed Nightstar overnight service between the United Kingdom and continental Europe via the Channel Tunnel. In 2000, after the Nightstar concept was abandoned, Via acquired the entire fleet, including many unfinished shells, for C$130 million. The cars entered Canadian service in 2002.

Renaissance (band)

Renaissance are an English progressive rock band, best known for their 1978 UK top 10 hit " Northern Lights" and progressive rock classics like "Carpet of the Sun", " Mother Russia", and "Ashes Are Burning". They developed a unique sound, combining a female lead vocal with a fusion of classical, folk, rock, and jazz influences. Characteristic elements of the Renaissance sound are Annie Haslam's crystal-clear wide vocal range, prominent piano accompaniment, orchestral arrangements, vocal harmonies, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, synthesiser, and versatile drum work. The band created a significant following in the northeast United States in the 70s, and that region remains their strongest fan base.

The nucleus of the first line-up was composed of former members of The Yardbirds, Keith Relf and Jim McCarty, who intended to put "something together with more of a classical influence". Renaissance was born, and the band released a studio album in 1969, and another in 1971. Subsequently, there was a period of high turnover of musicians until the "classic line-up" of Haslam, John Tout, Michael Dunford, Jon Camp, and Terry Sullivan was established, although none of them were in the original band. They were assisted with lyrics on many songs from Cornish poet Betty Thatcher-Newsinger. From 1972 to 1979 Renaissance released seven successful studio albums, toured extensively, and sold out three nights in a row at Carnegie Hall with Tony Cox conducting the New York Philharmonic.

The 80s were a lean time for them, with personnel changes, and two relatively unsuccessful studio albums, leading to disbandment in 1987. Two different offshoots of Renaissance existed at the same time at one stage in the mid-90s. The band re-formed in 1998 to record Tuscany, which was eventually released in 2001; however they disbanded again the next year.

2009 heralded a new line-up for Renaissance, led by Haslam and Dunford, and since then the band has continued to record and tour. They were shocked and saddened by the sudden death of Dunford in November 2012. Later, Haslam stated that the band would continue touring. The current line-up is not as English as the band's early period with five U.S. born members, and one English born member who lives in the U.S. In April 2014 Renaissance released the studio album Symphony of Light.

Renaissance (Vanilla Fudge album)

Renaissance ( Atco Records catalog no. [SD] 33-244; originally available in both mono and stereo) is the third album by rock band Vanilla Fudge, released in June 1968. It was their first album to feature mostly original material, with five of its seven tracks penned by band members.

In addition to the band's original songs, Renaissance also included "The Spell That Comes After" (written by Frank Zappa's and Herb Cohen's protege Essra Mohawk, but erroneously credited on original pressings of the LP to Zappa's art director Cal Schenkel), and a cover version of "Season of the Witch", originally written and performed by Scottish folk singer Donovan. The band also interpolates lyrics from a second Essra Mohawk song, "We Never Learn", into their rendition of "Season of the Witch".

CD reissues of Renaissance include three additional songs that were originally released as non-LP singles concurrently with the album.

Renaissance peaked at #20 on the Billboard album charts in July 1968.

Renaissance (film)

Renaissance, also known as Paris 2054: Renaissance, is a 2006 animated Tech noir science fiction film. The movie, which was co-produced in France, United Kingdom and Luxembourg, was directed by Christian Volckman. It was released on 15 March 2006 in France and 28 July 2006 in the UK by Miramax Films. In the English language version, some of the main characters are voiced by Daniel Craig, Jonathan Pryce and Ian Holm. Renaissance uses a style of motion capture animation in which almost all images are exclusively black-and-white; only occasional colour is used for detail. The film concerns a French policeman investigating the kidnapping of a scientist who may hold the key to eternal life in a futuristic and slightly dystopian Paris.

Renaissance (Monaco)

'''Renaissance '''is a political party in Monaco that represents the interests of SBM employees. They won 10.67% of the popular vote, and 1 out of 24 seats at the last legislative elections held on February 10, 2013. The seat is held by Eric Elena.

Renaissance (club)

Renaissance is a British electronic dance music club brand and record label. Renaissance was started by Geoff Oakes at Venue 44 in Mansfield, England in 1992. Renaissance was Geoff Oakes' antidote to the sci-fi imagery and dressed down clubbers of the 'rave' scene.

In 1993 Renaissance moved to a newly renovated former print works in Derby called The Conservatory. The Conservatory was only just finished in time for opening of Renaissance on the Saturday night but was decorated with the (by then) signature gold cherubs and velvet drapes which have become indicative of the oppulent style of Renaissance events. In 1995, Renaissance put on their first international show at Womb in Tokyo. Other international dates soon followed, and in 2007, Renaissance hosted over 150 shows in more than 25 countries around the world. The Renaissance monthly residency at the Cross nightclub in London was one of the longest running continuous club nights in the world, and ended in November 2007 when the venue closed permanently to make way for new development. They are known for their use of classical imagery in their packaging and advertising.

Renaissance is also renowned for their special shows in stately homes and castles, including Shugborough Hall, Allerton Castle, and several others around the UK. In late June 2007 Renaissance hosted " Wild in the Country" at Knebworth House in Hertfordshire. The event featured the only summer appearance in the UK of the electronic band Underworld, as well as a lengthy DJ set by Sasha and John Digweed. Other major artists on the line up included Hot Chip, François K, and Ricardo Villalobos.

Renaissance has also been resident during the summer season in Ibiza for more than 15 years, and has played on the Spanish island in venues such as Pacha, Privilege, and Amnesia.

In early 2010, Renaissance ceased operations and entered into administration. Ministry of Sound acquired the copyrights to the Renaissance brand, although under MOS ownership the brand was not active until recently. In July 2011, original founder Geoff Oakes once again took control of the brand and both the label and events are now fully operational again. A series of special events and record releases to celebrate Renaissance's 20th Anniversary has been announced in 2012.

Renaissance (Village People album)

Renaissance is the seventh studio album by the Village People released in 1981. The title reflects the band's departure from the disco genre with which they had long been associated to a new wave style following the downfall of disco as well as the discontinuation of their signature costumes.

Most critics were turned off by the unexpected change in direction. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, writing for Allmusic.com, opined that the album "should have never been released" and was "simply an embarrassment that never should have seen the light of day." John Imatainte, writer for the acclaimed New York-based disco enthusiast magazine, DiSCO was reportedly so disappointed upon hearing the album for the first time that he refused to write a review of it, referring to it in the July 1981 issue of the magazine as "an embarrassment to recorded music that cannot meet even the most remotely respectable of expectations."

In spite of being universally panned by critics, the album peaked at #138 on the Billboard 200. The album includes two singles, "Do You Wanna Spend the Night" and "5 O'Clock in the Morning". It was reissued to CD in 1999 with additional tracks.[citation needed]

The album's artwork has found popularity as an Internet meme as one of the worst album covers of all time.

Renaissance (The Association album)

Renaissance is the second album by The Association. This was their last album recorded for the Valiant Records label, and was reissued by Warner Bros. Records after the company acquired Valiant. The album peaked at #34 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.

Although it had no chart toppers like the LPs that came before and after it, two singles reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Pandora's Golden Heebie Jeebies" reached #35 in late 1966 and "No Fair At All" peaked at #51 in early 1967.

The single version of "No Fair at All" featured overdubbed vocals by Jim Yester, while early pressings of the LP featured the same track with re-recorded vocals and no overdubs. This was replaced on later copies with the single version.

In 1967, Warner Bros. absorbed the Valiant label and reissued this album along with the group's first album, And Then...Along Comes The Association. However, unlike the first album's reissue, all known Warner Bros. copies of Renaissance were issued in original, unaltered album covers in which all Valiant identifications were kept intact.

Renaissance (restaurant)

Renaissance is a restaurant located in the Manor Hotel of the Celebrity Centre International (formerly Château Élysée) in Hollywood, California.

The restaurant is currently closed until February 28, 2018 due to "renovations".

Dining Professionals of America has recognized it as one of the top 40 restaurants in Los Angeles. The California Restaurant Writers Association has awarded it “Four-Stars” in 2002 and the “Gold Award of Merit” was awarded in 2003 by the Southern California Restaurant Writers.

The restaurant, open to the general public, has been frequented by movie executives, agents, directors, and actors. Writer and director Julien Nitzberg had his 40th birthday dinner at the restaurant.

It features a terrace with carved-wood chairs that are reproductions of the Louis XIV style furniture in the Château Élysée. The restaurant's gardens have been described as "lush and green" and contain a waterfall and gazebo. Visiting guests can view an original Chateau Elysee dinner menu from 1937 on display.

Usage examples of "renaissance".

Maui-Covenant, six months on Renaissance Vector, three months on Patawpha, four standard months on Amritsar, about six standard months on -- what was it?

Renaissance, sharpened and intensified as it has been by its double maxima of climate and science, is able to force a response comparable to that of the Aurignacian Renaissance of twenty-five thousand BC, to wit, the flowering of the Cro-Magnon, the first of the modern men.

Ernest Bloch, was, after all, not much more eager to welcome a Jewish renaissance than was the Vienna of Gustav Mahler.

Rosie Rasmussen had told him that somewhere in the house Boney kept a real Renaissance crystal ball, once actually used for skrying, first owned, Boney had told her, by John Dee himself, a pedigree for which Pierce would have to see a lot of evidence before believing.

The so-called Carolingian Renaissance with its concentration on the language and literature of Greece and Rome was limited to scholars and did not penetrate to the ordinary man.

I fully expected to wind up in Italy or France of the Renaissance, so we hypnotaped ourselves full of Latin, several dialects of French and Italian, Spanish, Catalonian, and Basque.

Platonism of the Renaissance, as developed in the fourteenth century by Ficino and Pico.

Renaissance prepared the Reformation, that Luther had only hatched the Erasmian egg.

She looked, indeed, like one of those wonderful boys of the Italian Renaissance, whom you may still see at the National Gallery, whose beauty is no denial, but rather the stamp of their slender, supple strength, young painters and sculptors who held the palette for Leonardo, or wielded the chisel for Michelangelo, and anon threw both aside to take up sword for Guelf or Ghibelline in the narrow streets of Florence.

This Giusto was by no means a mediocre artist, but he consumed all his forces in the vain effort to reconcile his primary Gothic education with the newly awakened spirit of the Renaissance.

So in the seventeenth century the writers, exhausted by the mental effort of the Renaissance and prevented by the tyranny of kings and the domination of the church from occupying themselves with the great issues of life, turned their minds to gongorism, concettism and such-like toys.

Dog turd was especially popular, particularly dried white dog turd, from which the popular Renaissance medicine Album Graecum was made.

Although the precise details vary, it is the common Gnostic belief that reached as far as the medieval Cathars, and which underlines the hermetic cosmology that is the basis of Western occultism, running through alchemy to the hermeticism of the Renaissance.

The later Renaissance, which achieved by monuments of solid work what dilettantism had begun and interrupted in the Medicean age, was due to them and to the refuge they provided for persecuted scholars.

Renaissance Souls may forget that mentorship has traditionally been a less formal affair, open to everyone.