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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Jacob Burckhardt was born in Basel on 25 May 1818 and trained as a historian of art and culture in Switzerland. In 1860 he published The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, a study that broke the mold: instead of isolating paintings or sculpture, he wove together social institutions, daily life, and the arts into a single fabric. The method made him one of the major progenitors of cultural history — the idea that a period's essence lives as much in its routines as its masterpieces. Sigfried Giedion later credited him as "the great discoverer of the age of the Renaissance," the first to treat an epoch in its entirety. He remained an influential figure in the historiography of art and culture until his death in Basel on 8 August 1897.