This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... explorers probed the New World, some of the greatest masterpieces of the Renaissance were being ...

The properties have played a prominent role in the diffusion of the Renaissance culture in and outside Europe. Criterion (iii): Mantua and Sabbioneta are exceptional testimonies to a particular ...

is one of the most outstanding and well preserved examples of 16th Portuguese military fortification and a landmark in the history of this type of construction. The Fort's layout and form reflected ...

The new ideas of science, the arts and philosophy which emerged in the awakening of the Renaissance encouraged English thinkers to consider much wider interaction with the rest of the world.