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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Palazzo Guadagni → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Siege of Pavia (1524–1525) → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Capra family → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Ducal Palace of Massa → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Piazza della Santissima Annunziata → era → Renaissance ⓘ

O nata lux → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Manoir d’Ango → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Palace of the Dukes of the Infantado in Guadalajara → era → Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Palace of the Dukes of the Infantado

Villa di Lappeggi → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Massimiliano Sforza → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Pierre Caroli → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Charlotte d'Albret → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Palacio de los Toledo-Moctezuma → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Santa Maria della Consolazione → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Lotter printing house → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Palazzo Geremia → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Duchy of Castro → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Gérard Roussel → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Palace of Saint George → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Matthias I → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Château de Chamerolles → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Villa Sarego (Santa Sofia) → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Villa Trissino (Meledo) → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Rocca Sforzesca di Imola → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Villa Gazzotti Grimani → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Anne of Foix-Candale → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Ducal Palace of the Borja → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Enea Silvio Bartolomeo Piccolomini → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Sigismund Bell → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Vadstena Castle → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Charles III, Duke of Lorraine → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Manuel Cardoso → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Maria Manuela, Princess of Asturias → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Charles III, Duke of Bourbon → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Convent of San Marco → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Francis III, Duke of Brittany → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Filippo Strozzi the Younger → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Ottavio Farnese → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Bartolomeo Spina → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Castello di Torrechiara → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Gemma Frisius → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Lindwurm Fountain → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Republican Florence → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Piazza d'Armi → era → Renaissance ⓘ

subject surface form: Piazza d'Armi (Terra del Sole)

Torre del Bramante → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Louis d’Armagnac, Duke of Nemours → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Château d’Acquigny → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Jerzy Radziwiłł → era → Renaissance ⓘ

Filippo Terzi → era → Renaissance ⓘ

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