Term rinascita ('rebirth

The Italian Renaissance was a period in Italian history between the 14th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Western Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. Proponents of a \"long Renaissance\" argue that it started around the year 1300 and lasted until about 1600. In some fields, a Proto-Renaissance, beginning around 1250, is typically accepted. The French word renaissance means 'rebirth', and defines the period as one of cultural revival and renewed interest in classical antiquity after the centuries during what Renaissance humanists labelled as the \"Dark Ages\". The Italian Renaissance historian Giorgio Vasari used the term rinascita ('rebirth') in his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects in 1550, but the concept became widespread only in the 19th century, after the work of scholars such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt.

Lotte Sandberg was a Norwegian art historian and journalist. Between 1988 and 1996, Sandberg was co-editor of the Nordic art magazine SIKSI. She was author of the special issue on Norwegian contemporary art. In 1997, she was part of the editorial board of the Norwegian Art Yearbook. She was editor of Billedkunst from 1991 to 1995 and editor of Norsk kunstårbok in 1998 and 1999. A collection of her critics were issued in 2018, selected by Regine Stokstad.

Catharina Bernadetta Jacoba (\"Tineke\") Lagerberg is a retired Dutch swimmer who won the bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle at the 1960 Summer Olympics in a time of 4:56.9. She was also part of the Dutch team that broke the 4×100 m medley Olympic record in the preliminaries; however, they finished fourth in the final. Lagerberg broke the world record in the women's 200 m butterfly on 13 September 1958 in Naarden, Netherlands. She was also part of the Dutch relay team that set a new world record in the 4×100 m medley in the same year.