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Renaissance (Italian): 14th-16th centuries
- The Italian Renaissance is known as the re- birth of intellectual knowledge influenced by classical Greek and Roman culture and innovation in science, painting and sculpture, philosophy, literature. Also, this period started with the end of the “Middle Age” and the “Dark Ages” for knowledge and start with “Early Modern Europe” with apparition of commerce and backing. The Italian Renascence began in Florence and spread throughout to cities in Italy such as Milan, Rome, Pisa, Venice, and Siena.
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Renaissance (Northern): 14th-16th centuries
Albrecht Dürer is one most relevant Self-Portrait artist of the Norther European Renaissance during the 14th-16th centuries. Dürer used the Self-Portrait, already used in the “Middle Ages”, to illustrate the contemporary Christ devotion and his eagerness to approximate his own image to Chris’. In addition, Dürer is known for his ability to intense observation of the world in which he is able to use mathematical perspectives in order to produce an illusion of the proportionate human fi
