Renaissance art

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The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, as well as sculpture and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual, the sacred and the profane, the period provided a frame of reference which influenced European art over the next four centuries. Leonar.  Read more... Introduction; Art in Italy; The Italian Early Renaissance; The Italian High Renaissance; Leonardo da Vinci; Michelangelo Buonarroti; Raphael; Painting in Middle and Upper Italy; Painting in Venice; Architecture in Northern Italy; Art in Germany and the Rest ofNorthern Europe; Albrecht Dürer; Hans Holbein the Younger; Lucas Cranach the Elder; Tilman Riemenschneider; Veit Stoss; Architecture During the German Renaissance; Art in the Netherlands, France, England and Spain; The Netherlands; France; England; Spain; Major Artists; Architecture.