Notable Writers of the Renaissance
Notable Artists of the Renaissance
Notable Musicians of the Renaissance


The High Renaissance 1495-1527
The Renaissance in Northern Europe 1325-1600
c1420-c1520

The Medici family dominated Florentine political life commissioning works from Ghiberti, Brunelleschi, Donatello and Fra Angelico. Cosimo de Medici founded the Medici collection in the Laurentian Library.
The Renaissance was a rebirth of humanism, beginning in Italy and spreading throughout northern Europe.
Fine Arts were raised from the status of crafts and Artists gained a higher social status - art and science worked together in the mathematic calculations needed to portray perspective.