Urbino

(proper noun)

A historic walled-town in the Marche, Italy.

Related Terms

  • Duke Federico III da Montefeltro

Examples of Urbino in the following topics:

  • Urbino

    • Urbino was an important center of Renaissance culture in the 15th century.
    • Urbino is a walled city in the Marche region of Italy, south-west of Pesaro.
    • It hosts the University of Urbino, founded in 1506, and is the seat of the Archbishop of Urbino.
    • The Duomo di Urbino, the cathedral at Urbino, was founded in 1021 and rebuilt in the 15th century; the rebuilding was commissioned by the duke of the period, Federico III.
    • The Duomo di Urbino is the main church of the city and cathedral of Urbino.
  • Manet

    • As he had in Luncheon on the Grass, Manet again paraphrased a respected work by a Renaissance artist in his painting Olympia (1863), a nude portrayed in pose that was based on Titian's Venus of Urbino (1538).
  • Humanism

    • There were important centres of humanism in Florence, Naples, Rome, Venice, Genoa, Mantua, Ferrara, and Urbino.
  • Architecture in the High Renaissance

    • Bramante was born in Urbino and first came to prominence as an architect in Milan before traveling to Rome.
  • Renaissance Architecture in Rome

    • Bramante was born in Urbino and first came to prominence as an architect in Milan before traveling to Rome.
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