Renaissance in the U.K.

Topics

Topics in England

Renaissance (1550-1650)

The revival of classical ideals—and Italian style

Architecture

Self-portrait (1669) by Rembrandt van Rinj (1606–69) (Photo courtesy of the National Gallery)

Renaissance and Baroque

The rebirth of Classical ideals lead to a Europe-wide flowering of the arts

Art

William Hogarth

An English painter in the Flemish mold, depicting wonderful slices of life in early 18C England

Artist

Joshua Reynolds

A baroque painter of fussy British portraits set in Renaissance-style scenes

Renaissance Tours

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Fun Facts

Alice Liddell

Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church College from the 1850s to 1891, had a duaghter in 1852 he named Alice Pleasance Liddell. The Liddell family struck up a friendship with a mathematics professor named Charles Dodgson, who would regale the Liddell sisters with elaborate fantasy tales on their boating trips down Oxford's rivers. Little Alice begged Dodgson to write some of them down, and he did, using the pename Lewis Carroll, casting a precocious seven-year old girl named "Allice" as the protagonist, and eventually publishing Alice in Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There.

Alice Liddell, Age 7