renaissance : Idioms & Phrases
harlem renaissance
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noun a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
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high renaissance
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noun the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content
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italian renaissance
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noun the early period when Italy was the center of the Renaissance
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renaissance man
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noun a modern scholar who is in a position to acquire more than superficial knowledge about many different interests
generalist.
- a statistician has to be something of a generalist
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noun a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) could know almost everything about many topics
