Renaissance period

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The Renaissance period was a transformative era in European history, roughly spanning the 14th to 17th centuries, marked by a revival of classical learning and a flourishing of art, science, and humanist thought.

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instanceOf artistic movement
cultural movement
historical period
alsoKnownAs Renaissance NERFINISHED
followedBy Age of Enlightenment NERFINISHED
Baroque period NERFINISHED
follows Middle Ages NERFINISHED
hasArchitecturalStyle Renaissance architecture
hasArtStyle Renaissance art
hasCharacteristic development of linear perspective
expansion of printing
growth of vernacular literature
patronage by wealthy elites
questioning of traditional authorities
rediscovery of classical texts
hasCoreRegion Florence NERFINISHED
Italy NERFINISHED
Northern Europe NERFINISHED
Rome NERFINISHED
Venice NERFINISHED
hasEconomicContext growth of trade
rise of merchant classes
hasEndTime 17th century
hasKeyConcept humanism
individualism
perspective in art
revival of classical antiquity
scientific inquiry
secularism
hasLanguageContext English
French
German
Italian
Latin
hasLegacy foundation for modern Western thought
transition from medieval to early modern era
hasMainRegion Europe NERFINISHED
hasMusicStyle Renaissance music
hasNotableFigure Albrecht Dürer NERFINISHED
Dante Alighieri NERFINISHED
Donatello NERFINISHED
Erasmus of Rotterdam NERFINISHED
Filippo Brunelleschi NERFINISHED
Galileo Galilei NERFINISHED
Johannes Kepler NERFINISHED
Leonardo da Vinci NERFINISHED
Lorenzo de’ Medici NERFINISHED
Martin Luther NERFINISHED
Michelangelo NERFINISHED
Niccolò Machiavelli NERFINISHED
Nicolaus Copernicus NERFINISHED
Petrarch NERFINISHED
Raphael NERFINISHED
Sandro Botticelli NERFINISHED
Titian NERFINISHED
William Shakespeare NERFINISHED
hasPhilosophicalMovement Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
hasReligiousContext Catholic Counter-Reformation
Protestant Reformation NERFINISHED
hasStartTime 14th century
hasSubPeriod Dutch Renaissance NERFINISHED
Early Renaissance NERFINISHED
Elizabethan era NERFINISHED
French Renaissance NERFINISHED
German Renaissance NERFINISHED
High Renaissance NERFINISHED
Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED
Late Renaissance NERFINISHED
Northern Renaissance NERFINISHED
Spanish Renaissance NERFINISHED
hasTechnologicalContext invention of the printing press
influencedBy classical Greek culture
classical Roman culture
influencedField architecture
art
education
literature
music
philosophy
political thought
science
partOf European history
precededBy Gothic period

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Stolberg Castle hasReconstructionDate Renaissance period
Heinrich Wölfflin notableWork Renaissance period
this entity surface form: Renaissance and Baroque