post-Renaissance

American  

[pohst-ren-uh-sahns, pohst-ri-nay-suhns] / ˌpoʊstˈrɛn əˌsɑns, ˌpoʊst rɪˈneɪ səns /

adjective

1. (especially with reference to the arts) relating to, living in, or occurring during the period that immediately followed the Renaissance and constituted the beginning of modernity, usually considered to be from about 1600 to about 1700.

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post-Renaissance

In this post-Renaissance firmament, everything is hard-edged and Euclidean.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2017

Anyway, LeBron’s 30-60 feat, I believe, is one of the great stretches in post-Renaissance history.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2013

These anonymous warrior-artisans instinctively understood something about maximizing aesthetic efficiency that the post-Renaissance West took centuries to appreciate.

From New York Times ● Jun. 21, 2012

Romeo's name has been changed to Gnomeo as a signifier that he's a garden gnome and not the heir to a powerful post-Renaissance Italian dynasty.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2010

Assuredly France is the intellectual capital of the world, since, compared with hers, all other post-Renaissance civilizations have an air distinctly provincial.

From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell