"The new excitement about human potential spilled over into many areas of Renaissance life. It helped to stimulate great artistic and intellectual achievements the European continent." This is a quote from our seventh grade social studies book and the basis of this report. "Painting, sculpture, architecture, and allies arts produced in Europe in the historical period called the Renaissance. Broadly considered, the period covers the 200 years between 1400 and 1600, although specialists disagree on exact dates. The …showed first 75 words of 2792 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2792 total…Renaissance is a period of European history-considered by modern scholars as that between 1300 and 1600-in which the fragmented feudal society of the Middle Ages, with its agricultural economy and church-dominated intellectual and cultural life, was transformed into a society increasingly dominated by central political institutions, with an urban, commercial economy and lay patronage of education, the arts, and music. This is my report on the art and architecture of the period known as the Renaissance.