Sometimes they lounged at the steps of a church, and sometimes dallied among cypresses against a cloudless sky; sometimes they made love by a Renaissance well-head, and sometimes they wandered through the Campagna by the side of an ox-waggon.
Created by the Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, the Mona Lisa is known as "the most mysterious smile in the world".
One of the earliest signs of spring was the renaissance of Lady Jane.
s 16th-century Florentines dropped like flies to the plague, survivors drowned their fears in wine, passed to them through small windows which are enjoying a renaissance during the coronavirus era.
That 1990s personal-computing powerhouse is now having a renaissance moment, as it eclipses Facebook, Google, Amazon and the other tech darlings of the late decade.
And a building nicknamed the Haunted House is slathered in gold leaf, like an early Renaissance panel painting.
Renaissance romantics believed that, if they wore these soft-colored flowers, they would never be forgotten by their lovers, making the flower a symbol of fidelity and everlasting love.
"Salvator Mundi" is just one of 16 known surviving paintings from the master Renaissance artist.
China Renaissance advised Mobike on the fundraising.
This decades-old science is enjoying a renaissance today because of the deluge of data created by smartphones and sensors, and the supercomputing power that is available to crunch that data.
"It's remarkable how well China has done compared to everybody else," said Charles Robertson, global chief economist at Renaissance Capital, an investment bank focused on emerging markets.
Whether you credit Mad Men (2007-2015) or Breaking Bad (2008-2013), TV's recent renaissance began with a literal interpretation of moral relativism: Man is the measure of all things.
Jon Favreau, director of "Iron Man," has referred to Musk as a modern-day "Renaissance man.
For Sarah Rutson, vice-president for global buying at Net-a-Porter, shirting's renaissance is no surprise.
More excitable commentators predict the era of the mass production of ideas, of a "second renaissance", of the flowering of a global civilisation.
"For the writers of the Renaissance, the medieval was the abject other from which the rebirth of classical learning had liberated them, while the Victorians found in the Middle Ages archetypical structures of Empire and class-orientated chivalry.
Renaissance romance and vino - Florence, Italy The entire country oozes amore, but Florence is at the top, providing renaissance romance and endless vino.
Now medicine is on the threshold of a second renaissance, and the discoveries of this period may lead to a revolution in the treatment of everything from heart disease to cancer.
In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance.
From Michelangelo Buonarroti, Great Renaissance Artist: "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
