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The Renaissance was a period of major cultural, artistic, scientific and intellectual transformation and innovation in European history, roughly from the 14th to 17th centuries. Based on a revival of Greek and Roman thought, the Renaissance promoted new secular values of humanism, individuality and human achievement across society.
The Renaissance began in Italy, influenced by a rediscovery of classical philosophy, the end of the Middle Ages, and new wealth accumulated through trade. It later spread to Northern Europe. In art, the Renaissance produced masterpieces including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel fresco, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and Last Supper. Renaissance art emphasized realism, perspective, and human proportions and emotions.
In science, revolutionary thinkers like Copernicus replaced Church doctrine with reason and evidence. Advancements revolutionized fields from astronomy to anatomy. Theologians translated the Bible into vernacular languages, challenging the Church’s authority.
The Renaissance shaped new political institutions and education. Patrons like the Medici family sponsored arts and philosophy. Universities promoted humanist learning. Diplomacy and court culture flourished.
By the 1500s, the Renaissance evolved into the Baroque era as Reformation conflicts split Europe. But it left enduring advancements that birthed the modern world through revival of classical ideals, humanist philosophy, and spirit of intellectual freedom and curiosity as epitomized in Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man representing the Renaissance belief in human potential, creative possibility and beings as architects of both inner and outer universes.
Though a historical period, the Renaissance produced timeless works and ideas that live on in art’s pursuit of human creative potential, science’s spirit of open inquiry and society’s drive to cultivate individual talents and strengths. The Renaissance remains a pivotal movement that unlocked human possibility through acts of genius and faith in our shared capacity to sculpt the inner and outer reaches of destiny. Its light still illuminates the higher ground and distant horizons of what human invention, skill and vision can achieve.

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Famous Artists

> Alfred Sisley
> Camille Pissarro
> Caravaggio
> Claude Monet
> Diego Velázquez
> Edgar Degas
> Édouard Manet
> Eugène Delacroix
> Francisco de Goya
> Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
> Isaac Levitan
> Ivan Shishkin
> Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
> Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
> John Singer Sargent
> John William Waterhouse
> Joseph Mallord William Turner
> Lawrence Alma-Tadema
> Leonardo da Vinci
> Michelangelo
> Paul Cézanne
> Paul Gauguin
> Peter Paul Rubens
> Pierre-Auguste Renoir
> Raphael Sanzio
> Rembrandt Van Rijn
> Vincent van Gogh
> William-Adolphe Bouguereau

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