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
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
Paracelsus
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Theophrastus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, was a Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
German Renaissance
…Paracelsus (1493-1541) Paracelsus was an important philosopher, physician, chemist, alchemist, theologian and scientist of the German Renaissance. His works were accepted worldwide and…
1538 portrait by Augustin Hirschvogel
The Louvre copy of the lost portrait by Quentin Matsys, source of the iconographic tradition of "fat" Paracelsus
The University of Basel, where Paracelsus started working as a professor in 1527
Monument to Paracelsus in Beratzhausen, Bavaria