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In religious life, the Renaissance was a time of the broadening and institutionalizing of earlier initiatives in lay piety and lay-sponsored clerical reforms, rather than the abandonment of traditional beliefs. In government, city-states and regional and national principalities supplanted the fading hegemony of the empire and the papacy and ...
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Jan 11, 2022 · The Renaissance was a period of "rebirth" in arts, science and European society. It was a time of transition from the ancient world to the modern.
Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 AD [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology.
The Renaissance was a period in European civilization that immediately followed the Middle Ages and reached its height in the 15th century. It is conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values. The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents and numerous important inventions.
Late 1200s and early 1300s. A “proto-renaissance” precedes the Renaissance in Italy. This movement is inspired by the work of St. Francis of Assisi that emphasizes the spiritual value of nature’s beauty and focuses on serving the poor. These values inspire such figures as the artist Giotto, the poet Dante, and the writers Petrarch and ...
Apr 14, 2018 · The Renaissance Period “Renaissance” can also refer to the period, c. 1400 – c. 1600. “High Renaissance” generally refers to c. 1480 – c. 1520. The era was dynamic, with European explorers “finding” new continents, the transformation of trading methods and patterns, the decline of feudalism (in so far as it ever existed), scientific developments such as the Copernican system of ...
