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Migration in World History
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Eurasian-African world, patterns of migration changed in the period from the mid-fifteenth to mid-sixteenth century. By the 1440s populations had recovered from the demographic shrinkage imposed by the great plagues of the latter 1340s. In imperial China...
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Printing Industry
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...books increased. Gutenberg's Invention Johannes Gutenberg, of Mainz, is generally credited with the invention of printing from movable type, beginning in the 1440s. His contribution was more than simply realizing that each letter cou
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Pope, Richard
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Dunster Church, Som., and was probably master-mason at St John's Hospital and Sherborne Abbey, Sherborne, Dorset (1440s): if this is the case, he was responsible for the design of the noble choir at the Abbey. Thomas and Walter Pope (probably...
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Buchsbaum, Hans von
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...c. 1390– c. 1456). German architect who worked in the Danube area, first at Ulm (1418), then at Steyr (1440s), where he built the Pfarrkirche (Parish Church). He probably worked at the Stephansdom (Cathedral of St Stephen), Vienna...
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Tura, Cosimo (or Cosmè)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...1458. His sculptural figure style was influenced by Mantegna and also by Piero della Francesca (who worked in Ferrara in the 1440s), but its feverish, metallic quality is highly distinctive. Most of his surviving work is religious, including two huge...
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Alberti, Leon Battista
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...re aedificatoria ) and a much shorter one on sculpture ( De statua ). De re aedificatoria was probably written in the late 1440s and was presumably finished by 1452, when it was presented to Pope Nicholas V; it became the first printed book on architecture...
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Uccello, Paolo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...two other surviving large-scale works are a series of poorly preserved frescos on Old Testament themes (probably 1430s and 1440s) in the ‘Green Cloister’ of S. Maria Novella, Florence, and a series of three large panels ( c. 1455...
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Tura, Cosimo
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...1458. His sculptural figure style was influenced by Mantegna and also by Piero della Francesca (who worked in Ferrara in the 1440s), but its feverish, metallic quality is highly distinctive. Most of his surviving work is religious, including two huge...
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plaquette
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...relief in metal (usually bronze or lead, sometimes silver) made in multiple copies. Plaquettes originated in Italy in the 1440s, flourished there for about a century, and were popular in France, Germany, and the Netherlands into the 17th century...
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Tours, truce of
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Tours, truce of, 1444. With the struggle in France moving against them in the 1440s, the English wished to use a marriage negotiation for Henry VI to obtain a settlement. At Tours in May 1444, Suffolk ( William...
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