italian renaissance timeline Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/italian-renaissance-timeline Mon, 05 Dec 2016 22:39:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 THE RENAISSANCE 1350-1550 http://toursmaps.com/the-renaissance-1350-1550.html http://toursmaps.com/the-renaissance-1350-1550.html#respond Fri, 16 Dec 2016 22:26:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=228278 THE RENAISSANCE (1350-1550) During the 12th and 13th centuries, the Italian writers Dante and Petrarch, as well as the artist Giotto, created works that celebrated the inherent dignity and beauty of humankind. Their work, coupled with a revival of Italian Classicism, set the stage for the cultural rebirth known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, sculptors and artists Donatello, Michelangelo, and da Vinci gave life to Humanism, an outlook that treated rhetoric and the Classics as a celebration of human self-respect and preparation for a life of virtue. The optimism of the Renaissance was blemished, however, by the devastation

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