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Renaissance art (1350 – 1620 [1]) is the painting, sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history known as the Renaissance, which emerged as a distinct style in Italy in about AD 1400, in parallel with developments which occurred in philosophy, literature, music, science, and technology. [2]
The Italian Renaissance (Italian: Rinascimento [rinaʃʃiˈmento]) was a period in Italian history between the 14th and 16th centuries. The period is known for the initial development of the broader Renaissance culture that spread across Western Europe and marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity .
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]
The Ritmo laurenziano is the first extant document of Italian literature. In 1230, the Sicilian School became notable for being the first style in standard Italian. Renaissance humanism developed during the 14th and the beginning of the 15th centuries.
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political states, some independent but others controlled by external powers.
The most famous works of the Italian Renaissance by Boccaccio, and Petrarch were written in the 14th century, but continued to exert influence. Ludovico Ariosto ( Orlando furioso ), Baldassare Castiglione ( The Book of the Courtier ) and Niccolò Machiavelli ( The Prince ) were eminent writers of the Cinquecento.
The English Renaissance period in art began far later than the Italian, which had moved into Mannerism by the 1530s. [94] In literature the later part of the 16th century saw the flowering of Elizabethan literature, with poetry heavily influenced by Italian Renaissance literature but Elizabethan theatre a distinctive native
1404: Leone Battista Alberti – Italian author whose treatises on painting and architecture are hailed as the founding texts of a new form of art (died 1472) 1405: Stefano d'Antonio di Vanni – Italian Renaissance painter (died 1483) 1406: Filippo Lippi – Italian painter of the Italian Quattrocento (15th century) school (died 1469)