Taylor, Diane C. (Diane Carol)
Summary: Who were the artists of the Renaissance? Why do we still learn from Renaissance art? Using an inquiry-based approach, readers are introduced to the Italian Renaissance as it was experienced by five of the world's most renowned artists: Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. Readers will learn about the biographies of these Renaissance artists through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 709 TAYWalker, David
Summary: "Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo - hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat -- the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BITHankins, James
Summary: "Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; military leaders waging endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. "Men, not walls, make a city," as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 HANAvi
Summary: Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli which reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AVIHarris, Duchess
Summary: "In the 1920s, many African Americans left the South to escape racial violence. Some settled in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. Black artists, writers, and musicians in Harlem ushered in a cultural revolution called the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance explores this movement and its legacy. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J700.899 HARHill, Laban Carrick
Summary: Explores the literary, artistic, and intellectual creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and discusses the lives and work of Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other notable figures of the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.9 HILO'Hara, Mo.
Summary: In the first of two stories, zombie goldfish Frankie is good at saving the day, but the medieval day reenactment joust may be too much, and in the second story, Tom's evil brother clones a Jurassic carp, putting the school in danger.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile book on CD, Call number: J CD O'Hara 2017Greenblatt, Stephen
Summary: Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.21 GREHollingsworth, Mary
Summary: "The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science. Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones--from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945.1 HOLSummary: The second season of Borgia "is a cauldron of intrigue, violence, murder, lust, politics, faith, incest, betrayal and redemption, a story as compelling and enlightening as the age in which it takes place"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BORBraun, Georg
Summary: This volume beautifully reproduces a selection of plates from one of the finest extant sets of one of the most remarkable atlases ever produced, Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum or "Cities of the World," first published in six volumes between 1572 and 1617. Goss's knowledgeable narrative is full of interesting information about the maps and the history of the cities.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rand McNally 1992
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 910 GOSBurke, Jill
Summary: "Plunge into the intimate history of cosmetics, and discover how, for centuries, women have turned to make-up as a rich source of creativity, community and resistance. The Renaissance was an era obsessed with appearances. And beauty culture from the time has left traces that give us a window into an overlooked realm of history - revealing everything from 16th-century women's body anxieties to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2024
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Summary: A humanities professor describes the impact had by the translation of the last remaining manuscript of "On the Nature of Things" by Roman philosopher Lucretius, which fueled the Renaissance and inspired artists, great thinkers, and scientists.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.2 GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 GREDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: "Frank and Joe Hardy are excited to visit the King Arthur Faire in Bayport. On Kid's Day, there are all kinds of special contests and events, like the Medieval Maze and Junior Jester Court Slam. The highlight of the day is the Junior Joust competition: whoever can stay on a mechanical horse and lance a golden ring with their (fake) sword will win seats to watch the real jousting competition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2015
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DIXAlston, Bria
Summary: Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE ALSSummary: Wide ranging examination of Europe and the changes wrought by the Renaissance pays particular attention to the life of Leonardo Da Vinci, but goes well beyond the world of art to highlight political and social changes of the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Questar 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.21 DASummary: "You and your friends are newbies at the Renaissance fair. Food, music, mock combat... it sounded like some kind of off-beat rock concert! Problem is, you stick out like a sore thumb. In a crowd of buccaneer hats and faerie wings, you're the only ones in shorts and t-shirts. Now you and your friends have one afternoon to assemble the ultimate Renaissance costume, but you're low on cash and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlas Games 2009
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Summary: As the annual Renaissance Fair comes to Crystal Cove, Jenna Hart's Cookbook Nook is packed with tasty treats and all things medieval, while her pal Bailey is ready to swoon over her upcoming nuptials at a local vineyard. But when the two friends discover the body of the vineyard's owner bludgeoned by a winepress, all their merriment fades, along with their hopes for a vintage year. Which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale Cengage Learning 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GERHales, Dianne R.
Summary: "A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. No face has ever captivated so many for so long. Every year more than nine million visitors trek to her portrait in the Louvre. Yet while everyone recognizes her smile, hardly anyone knows her story. This book rests on the premise that the woman in the Mona Lisa is indeed the person identified in its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 HALKlepeis, Alicia Z.
Summary: In The Renaissance Inventors: With History Projects for Kids, readers 10 through 15 explore the period of European history from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries while focusing on the biographies of five inventors from that time and the creations they brought to the world. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Leon Battista Alberti, Johannes Gutenberg, and Gerardus Mercator are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nomad Press 0000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 KLEPark, Jacqueline.
Summary: Set against the backdrop of the religious persecution and papal politics of the Italian Renaissance, the story of Grazia dei Rosi, heiress to a Jewish banking dynasty and lover of a Christian lord, unfolds through her secret diary.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PARSchomp, Virginia.
Summary: Discusses how and why the Renaissance began in Italy, the cultural and intellectual achievements of the Italian Renaissance, and the lasting effects of these achievements on Western civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Benchmark Books 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 945.05 SCHSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021