Category:Renaissance art on stamps

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The art of the Renaissance in Europe describes the period of art between the middle age and the begin of the modern era. Chronological seen one is differing roughly with view to Europe between

- the art of the Early Renaissance in the time of the middle age to the 1450s with the "Carolingian Renaissance" as beginning phase and Northern Italy as starting point until to the Fall of Constantinople 1453 (to the Ottoman Turks)
- the art of the High Renaissance in the time 1450s - 1525 in all countries of Europe (inclusively Ireland and Scandinavia, maybe until to the peasant wars in Germany 1525/1526)
- the art of the Late Renaissance in the time 1525 - ca. 1550s (until to the transformation of Italy from a Republic to a Monarchy during the rule of the Medici-family)

Predecessor style: Gothic
Successor style: Baroque
Parallel style(s):

- the art of the "Danube school" in Romania, Austria, Bohemia, Bavaria, and neighboring regions along the Danube valley (1400 - 1500)
- the Muscovite Empire-Style in Russia (1400 - 1600)
- the Mannerism with focus to Italy, Spain, France (1530 - 1600) (sometime classified as "Late Gothic")

The art style of the Renaissance was characterized by a general upheaval to new creative ideas and the attempt of a revitalization of the cultural accomplishments of the Greek and Roman Antique. "...The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived from the concept of Roman "Humanitas" and the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of all things.". This new thinking became manifest in art, architecture, politics, science and literature...". One of the stylistic main charactistics of the Renaissance was also (among others) the application of the "linear perspective" and combined with that a deeper use of light and shadows as intensifying elements at the interaction between living matter and non-living matter. Characteristical was also a increasing, hesitant movement in the representations, if only just.

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