Example sentences for: renaissance

How can you use “renaissance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Looking at them was like looking at ancient Etruscan bronzes or Renaissance enameled boxes.

  • Como itself is a large factory town famous for its centuries-old silk production, but it has a handsome Gothic-Renaissance cathedral crowned by a superb Baroque dome that was added in 1744 by Turin’s great architect, Filippo Juvarra.

  • The structure of footnotes grew increasingly elaborate mainly because of the rediscovery during the Renaissance of a wealth of old documentary sources, along with the proliferation of new sources made possible by the printing press and the modern archive.

  • Countless Renaissance and Baroque sculptors have drawn inspiration from the friezes on the triple Arch of Septimius Severus (honoring a third-century emperor who died in York, England, the northernmost boundary of the empire).

  • You could argue, in fact, that the renaissance American movies experienced in the early 1970s was only possible because of these new arrangements.


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