Tour: The Early Renaissance in Florence

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In fifteenth-century Florence, many people believed themselves to be living in a new age. The term "Renaissance," already coined by the sixteenth century, describes the "rebirth" from the dark ages of intellectual decline that followed the brilliance of ancient civilization. In Italy, especially, the Renaissance was spurred by a revival of Greek and Roman learning. Works by classical authors, lost to the West for centuries, were rediscovered, and with them a new, humanistic outlook that placed man and human achievement at the center of all things. (continue)

Captions

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1	Masolino da Panicale, The Annunciation, c. 1423/1424
2	Florentine 15th Century, Matteo Olivieri (?), 1430s
3	Domenico Veneziano, Saint John in the Desert, c. 1445/1450
4	Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1440/1460
5	Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child, c. 1440
6	Andrea del Castagno, David with the Head of Goliath, c. 1450/1455
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7	Benozzo Gozzoli, The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, 1461-1462
8	Fra Carnevale, The Annunciation, c. 1445/1450