Early Renaissance

noun

1. a style of art developed principally in Florence, Italy, during the 15th century and characterized chiefly by the development of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and geometrically based compositions.

Early Renaissance

noun

1. the Early Renaissance
   the Early Renaissance the period from about 1400 to 1500 in European, esp Italian, painting, sculpture, and architecture, when naturalistic styles and humanist theories were evolved from the study of classical sources, notably by Donatello, Masaccio, and Alberti

Example Sentences

And the hues of this autumn of the early Renaissance are the last which appear in architecture.

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To illustrate the relative uniformity of this development we might likewise refer to the early Renaissance.

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Born in 1398, he was himself one of the sons of the early Renaissance.

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Miguel of Florence was one of the early Renaissance sculptors who came to Spain.

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Under him there was in fact a kind of early renaissance after centuries of barbarism and ignorance.

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