Conrad Celtes
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Conrad Celtes was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia. He led the theatrical performances at the Viennese court and reformed the syllabi.
Epitaph of Conrad Celtes, woodcut by Hans Burgkmair, 1507
Conradus Celtis
Bust in the Ruhmeshalle, Munich
German Renaissance
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The German Renaissance, part of the Northern Renaissance, was a cultural and artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which developed from the Italian Renais
Conrad Celtes
…German: Konrad Celtes; Latin: Conradus Celtis (Protucius); 1 February 1459 – 4 February 1508) was a German Renaissance humanist scholar and poet of the German Renaissance born in Franconia (nowadays part of Bavaria). He led the theatrical performances at the Viennese court and reformed the syllabi. Celtis is considered…
Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I (reigned: 1493–1519), the first Renaissance monarch of the Holy Roman Empire, by Albrecht Dürer, 1519
First page of a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, now in Texas
The Heller altar by Albrecht Dürer
Melencolia I, 1514, engraving by Albrecht Dürer