Renaissance

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European historical era artistic movement cultural movement historical period

The Renaissance was a transformative European cultural movement from the 14th to 17th centuries marked by a revival of classical learning, flourishing arts, and major advances in science and humanist thought.

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Label	Occurrences
Renaissance canonical	701
Italian Renaissance	79
Early Renaissance	44
Renaissance art	12
European Renaissance	6
Renaissance Europe	6
The Renaissance	4
Renaissance period	2
High Renaissance	1
Italian High Renaissance	1
Late Renaissance	1
Proto-Renaissance	1
Renaissance Italy	1
Renaissance era	1
early Renaissance	1

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This entity first appeared as the object of triple T42273 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

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Target entity: Renaissance
Context triple: [Europe, hasHistoricalPeriod, Renaissance]

A. Renaissance humanism
Renaissance humanism was an intellectual movement of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance that emphasized the study of classical antiquity, human potential, and secular learning, laying foundations for modern Western thought.
B. Middle Ages
The Middle Ages was a period of European history from roughly the 5th to the late 15th century, marked by feudalism, the rise of Christianity, and the formation of many modern European cultures and languages.
C. Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement in Europe and the Americas that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping modern democratic and political thought.
D. Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age was a 17th-century period when the Netherlands became a leading global power in trade, art, science, and finance, marked by prosperity and cultural flourishing.
E. Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration was a period from the 15th to 17th centuries when European powers undertook extensive overseas voyages that led to global maritime trade networks, colonization, and the first sustained contacts between previously isolated continents.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

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Target entity: Renaissance
Target entity description: The Renaissance was a transformative European cultural movement from the 14th to 17th centuries marked by a revival of classical learning, flourishing arts, and major advances in science and humanist thought.

A. Renaissance humanism
Renaissance humanism was an intellectual movement of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance that emphasized the study of classical antiquity, human potential, and secular learning, laying foundations for modern Western thought.
B. Middle Ages
The Middle Ages was a period of European history from roughly the 5th to the late 15th century, marked by feudalism, the rise of Christianity, and the formation of many modern European cultures and languages.
C. Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was an 18th-century intellectual movement in Europe and the Americas that emphasized reason, science, and individual rights, profoundly shaping modern democratic and political thought.
D. Dutch Golden Age
The Dutch Golden Age was a 17th-century period when the Netherlands became a leading global power in trade, art, science, and finance, marked by prosperity and cultural flourishing.
E. Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration was a period from the 15th to 17th centuries when European powers undertook extensive overseas voyages that led to global maritime trade networks, colonization, and the first sustained contacts between previously isolated continents.
F. None of above. chosen

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	European historical era ⓘ artistic movement ⓘ cultural movement ⓘ historical period ⓘ
followedBy	Age of Exploration ⓘ surface form: Age of Discovery Age of Enlightenment ⓘ surface form: Enlightenment Reformation ⓘ Scientific Revolution ⓘ
follows	Medieval period ⓘ Middle Ages ⓘ
hasArchitectureStyle	Renaissance architecture ⓘ
hasArtStyle	Renaissance art ⓘ
hasCause	economic growth of Italian city-states ⓘ fall of Constantinople ⓘ increased trade with the Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ migration of Greek scholars to Western Europe ⓘ patronage by wealthy families ⓘ rise of urban merchant classes ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	emphasis on human potential ⓘ expansion of education ⓘ experimentation in science ⓘ flourishing of the arts ⓘ growth of secular themes ⓘ patronage by courts and churches ⓘ renewed interest in realism ⓘ revival of classical learning ⓘ use of vernacular languages in literature ⓘ
hasEconomicAspect	expansion of long-distance trade ⓘ growth of banking ⓘ
hasEducationModel	studia humanitatis ⓘ
hasEndTime	17th century ⓘ
hasField	architecture ⓘ art ⓘ literature ⓘ music ⓘ philosophy ⓘ political thought ⓘ science ⓘ
hasInfluenceOn	Enlightenment thought ⓘ European education ⓘ Reformation ⓘ surface form: Protestant Reformation development of capitalism ⓘ modern Western culture ⓘ modern art ⓘ modern science ⓘ
hasKeyConcept	humanism ⓘ individualism ⓘ naturalism in art ⓘ perspective in art ⓘ rediscovery of Greek and Roman texts ⓘ revival of classical antiquity ⓘ scientific inquiry ⓘ secularism ⓘ
hasKeyEvent	development of linear perspective in painting ⓘ emergence of humanist education ⓘ invention of the printing press ⓘ scientific observations challenging geocentrism ⓘ translation of classical texts into vernacular languages ⓘ
hasLanguageContext	English ⓘ French ⓘ German ⓘ Italian ⓘ Latin ⓘ Spanish ⓘ
hasLocation	Europe ⓘ
hasMainRegion	England ⓘ France ⓘ Holy Roman Empire ⓘ Italy ⓘ Northern Europe ⓘ
hasNotableCenter	Antwerp ⓘ Bruges ⓘ Florence ⓘ London, England ⓘ surface form: London Milan ⓘ Naples ⓘ Nuremberg ⓘ Paris ⓘ Rome ⓘ Venice ⓘ
hasPhilosophicalMovement	Renaissance humanism ⓘ
hasPoliticalAspect	consolidation of monarchies ⓘ rise of powerful city-states ⓘ
hasReligionContext	Roman Catholicism ⓘ emergence of Protestantism ⓘ
hasScientificAspect	early modern science ⓘ
hasStartTime	14th century ⓘ
hasSubPeriod	Renaissance self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Early Renaissance English Renaissance ⓘ French Renaissance ⓘ Northern Renaissance ⓘ surface form: German Renaissance High Renaissance ⓘ Renaissance self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Italian Renaissance Late Renaissance ⓘ Northern Mannerism ⓘ Northern Renaissance ⓘ Spanish Renaissance ⓘ

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Pierre Ramus → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Cortile della Sapienza → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Ferdinand II of Naples → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Benedetto Pallavicino → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Cordonata from Piazza d'Aracoeli → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Guglielmo Gonzaga → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Alonso de Zúñiga y Acevedo → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Prince of Music → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Henri Estienne the Elder → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Alfons de Borja → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Convent of Corpus Domini, Ferrara → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Villa Aldobrandini → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Sophia Brahe → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Palazzo Casali → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Notre-Dame de Brou (associated Savoyard necropolis) → era → Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Notre-Dame de Brou

Giovanni dalle Bande Nere → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Maria Salviati → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Giovanni de' Medici (cardinal) → era → Renaissance ⓘ

John II, Duke of Cleves → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Charlotte of Albret → era → Renaissance ⓘ

John III, Duke of Cleves → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Niccolò V → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Garzia de' Medici → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Château des Dames → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Realdo Colombo → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Palazzo Baldassini → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Villa Falconieri → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Giorgio Barbarelli da Castelfranco → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Alonso de Molina → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Piero → era → Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Piero de' Medici

Piero → era → Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Piero the Unfortunate

Medici Bank → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Andries van Wesel → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Domenico da Cortona → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Philibert I, Duke of Savoy → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Ducal Palace of Nevers → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Petrus Gyllius → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Erard de la Marck → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Guilelmus Budaeus → era → Renaissance ⓘ

De Asse et partibus eius → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Collège de Coqueret → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Giovan Battista Bellaso → era → Renaissance ⓘ

court of Francis I of France → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Philip II, Duke of Savoy → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Gerhard Kremer → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Francis I, Duke of Nevers → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Charles IV, Duke of Alençon → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Palazzo Ducale, Pesaro → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Black Tower → era → Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Black Tower (České Budějovice)

Margaret of Austria → era → Renaissance ⓘ

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