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www.texrenfest.com. The Texas Renaissance Festival (dubbed the Ren Fest) is an annual Renaissance fair located in Todd Mission, Texas, about 55 miles northwest of Houston. [1] The Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF) started in 1974 on the location of an old strip mining site. The festival claims to be "the nation’s largest Renaissance theme park."
For Donatello's marble statue, see David (Donatello, marble). David is a bronze statue (circa 1440s) of the biblical hero by the Italian Early Renaissance sculptor Donatello. Nude except for helmet and boots, it dates to the 1440s or later. It is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance, and the first ...
Donatello, Reliquary Bust of St Rossore, c1422-5, gilded and silvered bronze, 55 x 58 x 42 cm, intended to contain the head of the Saint, for the church Ognissanti, Florence, until 1570, in Pisa since 1591, Museo Nazionale di San Matteo (w/out inv). Seen here w/out the halo at the 2022 Donatello exhibition in Berlin; Camera manufacturer: SONY
In the documentary series "Ren Faire," premiering Sunday on HBO, Lance Oppenheim ("Some Kind of Heaven") trains his camera on the 50-year-old Texas Renaissance Festival, outside of Houston, which ...
The Sala di Donatello of the Bargello in Florence, the museum with the largest and best collection of Donatello's work. The following catalog of works by the Florentine sculptor Donatello (born around 1386 in Florence; died on December 13, 1466, in Florence) is based on the monographs by H. W. Janson (1957), Ronald Lightbown (1980), and John Pope-Hennessy (1996), as well as the catalogs of the ...
Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi (c.1386 – 13 December 1466), known mononymously as Donatello (English: / ˌdɒnəˈtɛloʊ /; [ 2 ]Italian: [donaˈtɛllo]), was an Italian sculptor of the Renaissance period. [ a ] Born in Florence, he studied classical sculpture and used his knowledge to develop an Early Renaissance style of sculpture.
George C. Coulam (c. 1938) is an American business owner. He is the founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival (TRF), the largest Renaissance fair in the United States. [2] Since 1982, he has also served as the mayor of Todd Mission, Texas. [3] Coulam drew wider public attention after being featured in the 2024 HBO documentary series, Ren Faire.
The Equestrian Statue of Gattamelata is an Italian Renaissance sculpture by Donatello, dating from 1453, [1] today in the Piazza del Santo in Padua, Italy. It portrays the condottiere Erasmo da Narni, known as "Gattamelata", who served mostly under the Republic of Venice, which ruled Padua at the time. It is the first full-size equestrian ...