In the visual arts the sixteenth century saw the spread of Italian Renaissance ideas northward. In some cases they were carried by Italian artists like Benvenuto Cellini, who went to work in France. Cellini was Goldsmith to Francis I of France from 1537 to 1545. He completed here his first sculptur...

The Renaissance period saw the rise of the middle class. All the wealth did not go straight to the higher class and the middle class became more privileged and able to experiment with their own music. People moved to cities, and spent more time seeing plays and concerts. Music became part of a goo...

The Renaissance period was when the most brilliant ideas of art were discovered and invented. During this time, many talents were shown and new techniques in drawing were introduced. Before the Girogionesque style was developed, most painters liked to focus on defining the shapes and the object matt...

Originally named Tommaso Giovanni di Mone, Masaccio was born in San Giovanni Valdarno, near Florence, on December 21, 1401, and died in Rome in 1428. He was the first great painter of the Italian Renaissance, whose innovations in using scientific perspective introduced the modern style in painting. ...

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The word \"renaissance\" means \"rebirth\" in French. It is an ideal selection of word choice used to describe the period in [European] history dated 1450-1600. This era was preceded by the economic, social and cultural stagnation of the Middle Ages. It was during the Renaissance period that artisti...

Renaissance the renaissance was a cultural awakening for western Europeans from about 1350 to 1600. The renaissance began in the city-states of Italy first. It was a continuation of the middle ages, but it also signaled the beginning of modern times also. From this Europeans developed new attitude...

In Vasari\'s \"Lives of the Artists,\" Vasari offers us a fairly in-depth portrait of Tiziano de Cadore (most commonly and hereafter to be referred to as \"Titian\") both as one of the great painters of the Renaissance and as an influential and beneficent individual. Indeed, the portrait of Titian t...

The evolution of art over the span of centuries and the changing notion of the artist\'s place in society can be seen in the comparison of two very different works by two different artists. Impressions of who the artist was and what they contributed to society were transformed; and with the developm...

In the Florence Cathedral, Florence, Italy, there is a cathedral church whose octagonal dome, built without the aid of scaffolding, was considered the greatest engineering feat of the early Renaissance. Dedicated to Santa Maria del Fiore, Our Lady of the Flower, it is also known as the Duomo, after...