Italian Renaissance

Throughout history many art movements have emerged that artists and styles are classified under. One large contributing movement over the time period from about 1450 to about 1600 was known as the Italian Renaissance. However, what a large portion of people do not realize is that the Italian Renaissance was actually two main movements during that period of time. Each movement had key artists and a variation in style from the other movements. These two movements in …

…single movement that was in fact two periods during the Renaissance known as the early and high periods. Each period had there own key artists that contributed to the movement. Thus, if there was only a Renaissance period then it is very possible that the artists that we know as some of the greats may not have been at the forefront of the time period and their skills and talents would have passed us by.