Every Movement / Italy c. 1400 to 1495

Early Renaissance

Perspective is invented, anatomy is studied, antiquity is relearned. The painter becomes an intellectual.

The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, c. 1485. Uffizi, Florence.
When
c. 1400 to 1495
Where
Florence
Who
Masaccio, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Donatello
Source
Wikipedia ↗ / Museum file on Commons ↗
Pushed against
← Gothic
Grew out of
← Ancient Greek← Roman← Proto-Renaissance
Led to
High Renaissance →Venetian school →

The full Renaissance library, 439 paintings with museum files, lives at the Renaissance room.