Portion of carved cornice of pinewood, from the Palazzo Bensi Ceccini, Venice.
Italian; middle of sixteenth century.
(Victoria and Albert Museum.)
CHATS ON OLD FURNITURE
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THE RENAISSANCE ON THE CONTINENT
Italy. Flight of Greek scholars to Italy upon capture of Constantinople by the Turks—1453.
Rediscovery of Greek art.
Florence the centre of the Renaissance.
Leo X., Pope (1475-1521).
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1520). Raphael (1483-1520). Michael Angelo (1474-1564).
France. Francis I. (1515-1547).
Henry IV. (1589-1610).
Spain. The crown united under Ferdinand and Isabella (1452-1516).
Granada taken from the Moors—1492.
Charles V. (1519-1555).
Philip II. (1555-1598).
Germany. Maximilian I., Emperor of Germany (1459-1519).
Holbein (1498-1543).