Italian Renaissance
Medici-era cultural flowering
The Italian Renaissance was the cultural movement that began in Italy in the 14th century and flourished through the 16th, marking a rebirth of interest in classical Greek and Roman art, literature, and learning.
It produced figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli, and is considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modernity.
The term now broadly evokes artistic brilliance, humanist inquiry, and cultural flowering: The company is experiencing an Italian Renaissance in design.
Florentine banking dynasty
- BrunelleschiFlorentine Renaissance master builder
- ArnoTuscan watercourse
- TuscanyCentral Italian region
- UffiziFlorentine art museum
Ponte Vecchio · Baptistery · Republic · Botticelli · Vasari · San Marco · campanile
Wet plaster painting technique
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- temperaEgg-yolk painting method
- altarpieceReligious art behind altar
oil paint · commission · workshop · Madonna · proportion · anatomy · triptych · polyptych
Medieval Italian lyric poet
- classicismAdherence to ancient artistic principles
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- neoplatonismRevival of Platonic metaphysics
- civic virtueDevotion to community welfare
liberal arts · rhetoric · eloquence · vernacular · manuscripts · antiquity · Latin · Greek
Depth through converging lines
- vanishing pointWhere parallels appear to meet
- foreshorteningDepicting depth through size
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
- geometryScience of spatial relationships
printing press · experimentation · cartography · scientific method · dissection · optics · engineering · Gutenberg
Florentine banking dynasty
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- benefactorOne who gives aid
- patronRegular supporter or customer
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
sponsorship · nobility · patrician · endowment · benefaction · court · Gonzaga · banker
Pope's office and authority
- VaticanPapal city-state
- Counter-ReformationChurch's internal reform movement
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
- JesuitsIgnatian Catholic religious order
Council of Trent · indulgences · cathedral · chapel · devotional · iconography · martyrdom · saints
Medici
Florentine banking dynasty
- BrunelleschiFlorentine Renaissance master builder
- ArnoTuscan watercourse
- TuscanyCentral Italian region
Uffizi · Ponte Vecchio · Baptistery · Republic · Botticelli · Vasari · San Marco · campanile
fresco
Wet plaster painting technique
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- temperaEgg-yolk painting method
altarpiece · oil paint · commission · workshop · Madonna · proportion · anatomy · triptych · polyptych · panel
Petrarch
Medieval Italian lyric poet
- classicismAdherence to ancient artistic principles
- philologyStudy of historical texts
- neoplatonismRevival of Platonic metaphysics
civic virtue · liberal arts · rhetoric · eloquence · vernacular · manuscripts · antiquity · Latin · Greek · Cicero
linear perspective
Depth through converging lines
- vanishing pointWhere parallels appear to meet
- foreshorteningDepicting depth through size
- anatomyStudy of organism structure
geometry · printing press · experimentation · cartography · scientific method · dissection · optics · engineering · Gutenberg · Aldus Manutius
Medici
Florentine banking dynasty
- commissionPayment for services rendered
- benefactorOne who gives aid
- patronRegular supporter or customer
guild · sponsorship · nobility · patrician · endowment · benefaction · court · Gonzaga · banker · collector
papacy
Pope's office and authority
- VaticanPapal city-state
- Counter-ReformationChurch's internal reform movement
- InquisitionChurch tribunal against heretics
Jesuits · Council of Trent · indulgences · cathedral · chapel · devotional · iconography · martyrdom · saints · ecclesiastical
- art museumspaintings, The Louvre, galleries, permanent collection, exhibitions
- art historyart history, Baroque, Impressionism, modern art, baroque art
- Italian LiteratureDante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri
- Italian StudiesDante, Machiavelli, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo
- RenaissanceLeonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Mona Lisa
- cultural renaissanceIslamic Golden Age, Golden Age, revival, rebirth, flourishing
Italian RenaissanceMedieval period
Europe's feudal era
Middle Ages · Dark Ages · feudal era · Baroque period · Counter-Reformation
Italian Renaissanceanti-humanism
Rejection of human-centered worldviews
iconoclasm · barbarism · asceticism · feudal society · Puritanism
Italian RenaissanceNorthern Renaissance
Alpine-north cultural awakening
Byzantine art · English Renaissance · Islamic Golden Age · Tang Dynasty
Italian, Italians, Renaissance, Italianate, Italianize, Italianized