a style of art developed principally in Florence, Italy, during the 15th century and characterized chiefly by the development of linear perspective, chiaroscuro, and geometrically based compositions.
- Compare High Renaissance.
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How to use Early Renaissance in a sentence
And the hues of this autumn of the Early Renaissance are the last which appear in architecture.The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) | John Ruskin
To illustrate the relative uniformity of this development we might likewise refer to the Early Renaissance.Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm Wundt
Born in 1398, he was himself one of the sons of the Early Renaissance.Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa | Edward Hutton
Miguel of Florence was one of the Early Renaissance sculptors who came to Spain.The Story of Seville | Walter M. Gallichan
Under him there was in fact a kind of Early Renaissance after centuries of barbarism and ignorance.
British Dictionary definitions for Early Renaissance
the Early Renaissance the period from about 1400 to 1500 in European, esp Italian, painting, sculpture, and architecture, when naturalistic styles and humanist theories were evolved from the study of classical sources, notably by Donatello, Masaccio, and Alberti
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