In what century did the Renaissance begin?
Themes in Italian Renaissance painting Themes in Italian Renaissance painting This article about the development of themes in Italian Renaissance painting is an extension to the article Italian Renaissance painting, for which it provides additional pictures with commentary. The works encompassed are from Giotto in the early 14th century to Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" of the 1530s. The themes that preoccupied painters of the Italian Renaissance were those of both subject matter and execution- what was painted and the style in which it was painted. The artist had far more freedom of both subject and style than did a Medieval painter. Certain characteristic elements of Renaissance
Renaissance of the 12th century way in which certain rapturous pluralities were continued and ruptured—concomitantly". This complicates the story of the twelfth-century Renaissance as a site of both progressive and deeply troubled legal, religious and social developments. The translation of texts from other cultures, especially ancient Greek works, was an important aspect of both this Twelfth-Century Renaissance and the latter Renaissance (of the 15th century), the relevant difference being that Latin scholars of this earlier period focused almost entirely on translating and studying Greek and Arabic works of natural science, philosophy and mathematics, while the later Renaissance focus was on literary and historical texts. In