Renaissance - A revival or rebirth of cultural awareness and learning that took place during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, particularly in Italy, but also in Germany and other European countries. The period was characterized by a renewed interest in ancient Greek and Roman art and design and included an emphasis on human beings, their environment, science, and philosophy. http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/ renaissance.html Renaissance Art & Architecture A brief history Renaissance & Baroque Music Chronology http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/ musi/callon/2233/ details.htm http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHrenaissanceitaly.html#gener Later Renaissance works of art by artists born after 1469, including Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528), Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, 1475-1564), Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (Italian, 1483-1520), Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian [Venetian], c. 1485/90-1576), Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) (Italian [Venetian], 1518- 1594), and Giambologna (Giovanni da Bologna) (Italian, 1529-1608): Art by artists born after 1469 http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/r/renaissance.later.html 'Pietà', St Peters, Rome.1499–1500. http://www.italian-renaissance-art. com/Michelangelo-sculptures.html revered sculptor of the Renaissance period and, despite his fresco work in The Sistine Chapel, he always considered himself to be a sculptor rather than a painter. He was raised in Florence but had lived with a stonecutter and his wife during his mothers long illness, and also for some time after her death. This early introduction to the stonecutters trade fed Michelangelo' s interest in sculpture and he studied at the school of Lorenzo de' Medici under the guidance of Bertoldo di Giovanni.Two of his first sculptures are 'The Madonna of the Stairs' and 'The Battle of the Centaurs'. Albrecht Dürer, Self- Portrait at 26, 1498, oil on wood panel, 52 x 41 cm, Museo Nacional del Prado, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), The Holy Family (Madonna with the Beardless Joseph) , 1506, Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian, 1483-1520), Madonna and Child (Madonna Conestabile), 1502/3 Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venetian, c. 1488-1576), Madonna with saints and members of the Pesaro family, 1519-26 Define: renaissance Noun S: (n) Renaissance, Renascence (the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries) S: (n) rebirth, Renaissance, Renascence (the revival of learning and culture) http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/ webwn?s=renaissance