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	Renaissance - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Renaissance
		One characteristic of the Renaissance was the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman literature, led by the writers Giovanni Boccaccio and Francesco Petrarch who translated and studied the works of the classical civilizations.
		The enormous achievements of creative artists during the Renaissance were made possible by the patronage (money, sponsorship, and support) of wealthy ruling families such as the Sforza in Milan and the Medici in Florence; by the ruling doge of Venice; and by popes, notably Julius II and Leo X.
		In the visual arts, the end of the High Renaissance is marked by a movement in the late 1400s known as Mannerism, a tendency to deliberate elongation of the body, and a wilful distortion of perspective.
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	Renaissance LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		The Renaissance is usually considered to have originated in the 14th century in northern Italy and begun in the late 15th century in northern Europe.
		The traditional view is that the Renaissance of the 15th century in Italy, spreading through the rest of Europe, represented a reconnection of the west with classical antiquity, the absorption of knowledgeâ”particularly mathematicsâ”from Arabic, the return of experimentalism, the focus on the importance of living well in the present (e.g.
		The Italian Renaissance was intertwined with the intellectual movement known as Renaissance humanism and with the fiercely independent and combative urban societies of the city-states of central and northern Italy in the 13th to 16th centuries.
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		Thus it is possible to speak of the Renaissance in two different but meaningful ways: A rebirth of classic learning and knowledge through the rediscovery of ancient texts, and a rebirth of European culture in general.
		Marxist historians view the Renaissance as a pseudo-revolution with the changes in art, literature, and philosophy affecting only a tiny minority of the very wealthy and powerful while life for the great mass of the European population was unchanged from the Middle Ages.
		Perhaps the most important determinant of the Renaissance is that those involved in it believed they were living in a new era that was a clean break from the Middle Ages.
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		High Renaissance - the artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content artistic
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