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Where is the Italian Renaissance conventionally said to have begun?
The conventional date for the start of the Italian Renaissance is the early 14th century in Florence, with the early humanists (Petrarch, Boccaccio) and proto-Renaissance painters (Giotto). The mature 15th-century Florentine Renaissance under the Medici — Brunelleschi's dome, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo's early work — is the period most associated with the term.
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The Renaissance The Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual movement in Europe between approximately 1400 and 1600 that revived classical Greek and Roman learning, produced new art and science, and laid the groundwork for the modern world. It began in northern Italy and spread north and west across the continent.
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