Renaissance Europe
Post-medieval artistic flourishing
Renaissance Europe refers to the period and place of cultural rebirth spanning roughly the 14th through 17th centuries, beginning in Italy and spreading across the continent.
The term typically appears in historical and art-historical contexts: Renaissance Europe saw the rediscovery of classical learning, the great painters of Renaissance Europe.
It designates both a time and a geography—the European world during its transition from medieval to early modern civilization.
- CopernicusRenaissance astronomer, heliocentrism
- VesaliusFather of anatomy
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- Sistine ChapelVatican worship hall
- PetrarchMedieval Italian lyric poet
Christopher Columbus · Medici family · Dante Alighieri · Martin Luther · Protestant Reformation · universities · Leonardo da Vinci · Galileo · Erasmus · Botticelli · city-states · printing press · patronage · merchant class · Shakespeare · Vasco da Gama · cartography · Age of Discovery
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