The Renaissance
c. 14th–16th centuries
Recorded HistoryThe Renaissance
The Renaissance, French for rebirth, began in the Italian city-states and spread across Europe. Scholars recovered and studied the writings of classical Greece and Rome, while painters, sculptors, and architects such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael developed new ways of showing space and the human body. Raphael painted The School of Athens in the Vatican between 1509 and 1511.
There is no single date. The idea of a rebirth of learning circulated in Italy from the fourteenth century, and the period is usually placed from about 1300 to 1600, with its start and end disputed. Historians also argue over whether it was a sharp break with the Middle Ages at all. The archive marks the period from c. 1300 and keeps its range as the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
c. 14th–16th centuries, placed on the scale of its era on a line leading toward now.
- Period
- c. 14th–16th centuries
- Edition
- 1/1
- Status
- Reserved for a Future Release
Background artwork
Raphael, The School of Athens, fresco, 1509–1511, Stanza della Segnatura, Apostolic Palace, Vatican. Public domain. A painting of the High Renaissance, made within the period and not at a single date in it.