 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - Chronology, Historical - 1818 - 440 pages
...FINE ARTS IN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF LEO X. 1. In enumerating those great objects which characterized the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, we remarked the high, advancement to which the fine arts 1 attained in Europe in the age of Leo X.... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - Anatomy, Comparative - 1819 - 646 pages
...and taken possession of by the same nation in the very ^rst year of the sixteenth century. Towards the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century, COLUMBUS, COKTEZ, and PIZAURO subjugated for the Spaniards the West Indian islands, with the empires... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1877 - 844 pages
...publication of Brun de la Montaigne, not been traced farther back than the poet Jehan le Maire, who lived at the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. It is, however, found observed, with few exceptions, in the poem before us, which is more than a century... | |
 | Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee, Edward Nares - History - 1825 - 608 pages
...FINE ARTS IN EUROPE IN THE AGE OF LEO X. 1. IN enumerating those great objects which characterized the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, we remarked the high advancement to which the fine arts attained in Europe in the age of Leo X. The... | |
 | James Mitchell - Scotland - 1825 - 798 pages
...uder, Kor feir, At Christis kiik of the Grene that dfly. The historian John Major, who flourished in the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth century , acquaints us, that in his linio several poems wf, ich had been composed Ly James 1. wore repeated... | |
 | A. Mercer - Aberdour - 1828 - 352 pages
...the time and place of his birth, and ihe period at which he died, are un-known. He flourished towards the end of the fifteenth* and the beginning of the sixteenth century, in the reigns of Henry the VIII. of England, and James the IV. of Scotland. He reached an advanced... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...discontinued ; but the art itself of engraving upon wood continued in an improving state; and towards the end of the fifteenth, and the beginning of the sixteenth, century, it became the custom of almost all the German painters to engrave copies of their designs on wood as... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...several witches were weighed at Szegedin, in Hungary. With the exception of these few relics of ordeals, the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century are to be regarded as the closing period of them in Europe. But it is to be lamented that the Roman... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 620 pages
...several witches were weighed at Szegedin, in Hungary. With the exception of these few relics of ordeals, the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century are to be regarded as the closing period of them in Europe. But it is to be lamented that the Roman... | |
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At the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century, society was in a state of excitement. 
