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The Renaissance was the rich period celebrating the rebirth' of learning and culture that occurred in Europe at the end of the middle Ages.
Many great Italian paintings and other fine art were produced by artists like Raphael, da Vinci and Michelangelo. Renaissance painting does not really mean a specific or common art style; rather, Renaissance art was born out of a new and rapidly developing world.
It was the bridge signifying the end of the medieval period and the beginning of the modern world and laid the foundations for modern Western values, society and art.
The Italian Renaissance began slowly but surely, kicked off by the paintings of Giotto whose earliest known works is a sequence of frescoes about the life of St. Francis in the church at Assisi.
The Renaissance also produced some of the best artists ever known in the world of painting - da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli and more.
Leonardo da Vinci Who doesn't know da Vinci? And who has not heard of the enchanting Mona Lisa and religious The Last Supper paintings? Leonardo is one of the most intriguing, talented and excellently technical painters the world has ever known.
Michelangelo Buonarroti - Michelangelo is best known for the years he spent painting the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel ceiling. He also sculpted two of the world's greatest statues, David and Pieta.
Botticelli - Italian early Renaissance painter Botticelli is best known for the Birth of Venus and Mars & Venus paintings.
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