The Renaissance

The word Renaissance (French for ‘rebirth’), was first used to define the historical age in Italy – and in Europe in general - that followed the Middle Ages and preceded the Reformation, spanning roughly the 14th through the 16th century. The principal features were the revival of learning based on classical sources, the rise of courtly and papal patronage, the development of perspective, and the advancements of science.

• Early Renaissance

The "Early Renaissance" was the period prior to 1500, and was all about Florence. Firenze, as it's known to those who live there, was the place in which to launch one's artistic career in 15th-century Italy.

• Early Renaissance Artists:

  Albertinelli, Mariotto
   Andrea del Castagno
   Angelico, Fra
   Antonello da Messina 
   Baldovinetti, Alesso
   Bastiani, Lazzaro
   Bellini, Gentile
   Berruguete, Pedro
   Botticelli, Sandro
   Botticini, Francesco & Raffaello
   Brunelleschi, Filippo
   Cima Da Conegliano, Giovanni Battista
   Cossa, Francesco del
   Cozzarelli, Guidoccio
   Crivelli, Carlo
   Crivelli, Vittore
   Daddi, Bernardo
   de'Barbari, Jacopo
   de'Roberti, Ercole
   Fouquet, Jean
   Francesco di Giorgio Martini 
   Gallego, Fernando
   Ghiberti, Lorenzo
   Ghirlandaio, Domenico
   Giotto di Bondone
   Gozzoli, Benozzo
   Lippi, Filippino
   Lippi, Fra Filippo
   Mantegna, Andrea
   Masaccio
   Melozzo da Forlí
   Perugino, Pietro 
   Piero della Francesca
   Pinturicchio, Bernardino di Betto
   Pisanello, Antonio Pisani
   Pollaiolo, Antonio
   Quercia, Jacopo Della
   Sano di Pietro
   Sassetta
   Uccello, Paolo
   Verrocchio, Andrea del