Renaissance Italy
Florence's golden age
Renaissance Italy refers to the Italian peninsula during the cultural flowering of roughly the 14th through 16th centuries, when city-states like Florence, Venice, and Rome became centers of art, architecture, and humanist learning.
The term evokes figures like Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli, along with Medici patronage and classical revival.
Renaissance Italy produced some of the most influential art in Western history.
- MediciFlorentine banking dynasty
- MichelangeloFlorentine sculptor and painter
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
- PetrarchMedieval Italian lyric poet
- NeoplatonismPlotinus's systematic mystical metaphysics
Galileo Galilei · Dante Alighieri · civic virtue · chiaroscuro · linear perspective · vanishing point · quattrocento · Leonardo da Vinci · Raphael · Machiavelli · Botticelli · humanism · Florence · duomo · Brunelleschi · city-state · Borgia · Dante
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, period
- Italian HistoryRome, Venice, Florence, Naples, Sicily
- Borgias
- empiresBritish Empire, Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, Persian Empire, Mongol Empire
- Shakespeare's ItalyVerona, Venice, Rome, Padua, Milan