Spanning from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in the 14th century, the Middle Ages encompassed a thousand years of social, cultural, and religious upheaval, and — most importantly ...

The Renaissance period is usually seen as being from the 14th to 17th Century. New translations of important texts from Ancient Rome and Ancient Greece provided fresh ideas and knowledge that had ...

From the 14th through 17th century, Italians looked backward ... These values are visually represented within several Renaissance motifs characteristic of art from this period.