Century Quote by Walter Pater

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art…

— Walter Pater

The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs.…

— Robert Briffault

I have been interested in the 12th century since my 20s when it was very fashionable to say of anybody with whom you disagreed,…

— Yitzhak Rabin

There's a creativity, a power, an energy, an ability to do things unlike any other period in history. It's a little bit like sitting…

— Juan Enriquez

One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also…

— Marie Rutkoski

“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by…

— G.K. Chesterton

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

— Arthur Erickson

When I ask myself what are the great things we got from the Renaissance, it's the great art, the great music, the science insights…

— Kip Thorne

Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.

— P. J. O'Rourke

“ The Renaissance After the fall of the Roman Empire, Europe began a period that is called the Middle Ages, or the medieval period.…

— Jean F. Blashfield

Why alhough the Renaissance eventuall became a Euope wide intellectual and artistic movement, and why did it developed first and most distinctively in Italy?…

— Brandon McCaw

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and…

— Joel Garreau