Renaissance

Renaissance, the great flowering of art, architecture, Politics, and the study of literature, usually seen as the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern world, which came about under the influence of Greek and Roman models. It began in Italy in the late 14th cent., culminated in the High Renaissance in the early 16th cent, (the period of *Michelangelo and *Machiavelli), and spread to the rest of Europe in the 15th cent, and afterwards. Its emphasis was humanist: