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High Renaissance   /haɪ rˌɛnəsˈɑns/   Listen
High Renaissance

noun
1.
The artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content.





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"High Renaissance" Quotes from Famous Books



... required a brave, a vigorous, and an original thinker to discover any merit in any painter before Raffael, except perhaps, as Goldsmith wisely remarked, Perugino. The man who went then to the Uffizi or the Pitti, after admiring as in duty bound his High Renaissance masters, found himself suddenly confronted with the Judith or the Calumny, and straightway wondered what manner of strange wild beasts these were that some insane early Tuscan had once painted to amuse himself in a lucid interval. They ...
— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen


Words linked to "High Renaissance" :   artistic style, idiom, Renaissance, renascence


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