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- Jacob Burckhardt - Jacob Burckhardt (May 25, 1818, Basel, Switzerland – August 8, 1897, Basel) was a Swiss historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. Siegfried Giedion described Burckhardt's achievement in the following terms: "The great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance, ...
- Burckhardt - *Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) - Swiss historian of art and culture
- The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy - The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Die Cultur der Renaissance in Italien) is a 1860 work on the Italian Renaissance by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Together with his 1878 Geschichte der Renaissance in Italien, it is counted among the classics of Renaissance historiography.
- Italian Renaissance - ... Europe that spanned the period from the end of the 14th century to about 1600, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The term renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the nineteenth century, in the work of historians such as Jacob Burckhardt.