• the engravings of French Renaissance artist Jean Duvet exhibit horror vacui, or a fear of leaving space unfilled?

Facts on topics related to French Renaissance

French art

• French miniature painter Jacquemart de Hesdin is noted for his marginalia (example pictured), shapes of animals and foliage which give manuscript pages a frame?
• Hungarian painter Béla Iványi-Grünwald was influenced by many French artistic movements including Symbolism, Fauvism and Impressionism, and in particular the work of Paul Gauguin?

Renaissance

• Ada Louise Huxtable called Portland, Oregon's Keller Fountain Park "one of the most important urban spaces since the Renaissance"?
• Doge Andrea Vendramin of the Republic of Venice has what is generally agreed to be "the most lavish funerary monument of Renaissance Venice" in the basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo?
• Renaissance composer, instrumentalist and copyist Pierre Alamire was also a spy for Henry VIII, until he was revealed as a double agent?
• BÄ™dzin Castle (pictured), an important fortress in medieval Poland, fell into disrepair in the Renaissance era, was almost demolished in the 19th century and was rebuilt only in the 1950s?
• Nicolas des Escuteaux's novels are regarded as more adventurous than sentimental, and show the influence of the Renaissance Hispano-Portuguese adventure novel?
• Stamp mills, first used during the Renaissance in such diverse industries as paper making, oil-seed processing, and ore refining, work to crush their material by repeatedly dropping heavy weights on them?
• Poliphilo (pictured), the main character in the Renaissance book Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, was said to have felt "extreme delight," "incredible joy," and "frenetic pleasure and cupidinous frenzy" when he saw the buildings depicted in the book?
• Italian painter Parmigianino distorted nature for his own artistic purposes in the unfinished Renaissance oil painting Madonna with the Long Neck (pictured)?
• King Henry VIII was a talented musician and composer, and his song Pastime with Good Company became a popular tune throughout Renaissance Europe and remains a choral favorite?
• according to the controversial Hockney-Falco thesis, the rise of realism in Renaissance art, such as Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, was largely due to the use of curved mirrors and other optical aids?

Italian Renaissance

• Italian Renaissance architect and stage designer Nicola Sabbatini discovered that the l'Å“il du prince ("the prince's eye") has the best perspective of the stage of any seat in a theater's audience?
• many of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists were enlisted to provide temporary decorations for flattering allegories of a Royal Entry (example pictured)?
• the Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio's first commission in the city of Venice was an improved design for the façade of San Pietro di Castello?
• the heroic Greek marble Gaddi Torso (pictured) in the Uffizi, Florence, was so admired in the Italian Renaissance that it was never "restored" by completing it?