Renaissance

 Italian Renaissance



     The Italian Renaissance was the most earliest form of the general Renaissance art Movement, an era in which there were a lot of cultural changes and achievements that began in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the movement between Medieval and into the Early Modern Europe. The term Renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century, in the work of historians such as Jules Michelet and Jacob Burckhardt.
        
Although the origins of a movement that was limited largely to the literate culture 
of intellectual attempt and patronage can be traced to the earlier parts of the 14th century, many aspects of the Italian culture and society remained largely Medieval; the Renaissance movement did not come into full swing until the end of the century.
        

The word renaissance (Rinascimento in Italian) means "rebirth" in French, and the era is best known for the renewed interest in the culture of classical antiquity after the period that Renaissance humanists labeled the Dark Ages. 


Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance. 2013. Exhibits Collection -- Renaissance. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.learner.org/interactives/renaissance/. [Accessed 08 April 2013].