Renaissance influence
Rebirth era impact
Renaissance influence refers to the impact of the European Renaissance—the cultural rebirth spanning roughly the 14th to 17th centuries—on later art, architecture, thought, or culture.
The term appears in discussions of classical revival, humanism, and artistic technique: The building shows strong Renaissance influence in its symmetry and columns.
Something bearing Renaissance influence typically draws on Greek and Roman models filtered through that era's innovations.
- frescoWet plaster painting technique
- chiaroscuroContrast technique in painting
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- heliocentrismSun-centered astronomical theory
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
golden ratio · human form · diplomacy · anatomy · Medici family · classical revival · education reform · civic virtue · Petrarch · city-states · merchant class · sonnet · liberal arts · patronage · Michelangelo · artistic genius · Neoplatonism · Brunelleschi
Renaissance influenceregression
Return to former state
cultural decay · obscurantism · anti-intellectualism · traditionalism · backwardness