THE RENAISSANCE.

Renaissance means the cultural phenomenon that, in the beginning of the modern age, recalls the principles of classical culture (Greek and Roman) Humanism updating it through without giving up the Christian tradition, but replacing the omnipresence of religious medieval world by an affirmation of the values ​​of the world and man, regardless of their religious beliefs.

A static conception of the universe, in all respects, it will happen a dynamic full of initiatives and experiments, that will change in less than a century the economic, social, scientific, political and geographical world.

On the artistic side, the Renaissance is a world supported on models of the Greco-Roman beginning to be studied in a rigorous, and seek in them a scientific and mathematical definitions of beauty and harmony. The beauty will be the expression of an intellectual order and profane, that to the extent, order and proportion finds its own language. We will study the nature and will be in a new science, the perspective, the proper mode of representation, and the naked human body is, the ultimate, the perfections and the primary object of the artists, reflecting the anthropocentrism of humanist thought.

Is Italy where crystallizes before this new worldview and art. Is more advanced socially and economically for their organization of open cities, and enriched by European trade throughout the Middle Ages. In the fifteenth century Italian mature forms with abundant remains of the Roman world present in the soil, which collects the wealthy bourgeoisie, studied and evaluated as an indicator of culture.
By contrast, in the rest of Europe this style will break Renaissance later, and is due to the matured forms of Italy. The Renaissance Spanish, French, German, Dutch, .. be a phenomenon emerged in contact with Italian and its origins must fix time around 1490 - 1500, when Italy has already done much of the most significant new style .

                                     La basílica de San Pedro, Roma.