High Renaissance

noun

1. a style of art developed in Italy in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on draftsmanship, schematized, often centralized compositions, and the illusion of sculptural volume in painting. Compare Early Renaissance, Venetian ( def 2 ).

High Renaissance

noun

1. 1. the period from about the 1490s to the 1520s in painting, sculpture, and architecture in Europe, esp in Italy, when the Renaissance ideals were considered to have been attained through the mastery of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael
   2. ( as modifier )

      High Renaissance art

Word History and Origins

Origin of High Renaissance¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

It’s hard to imagine Florence, cradle of the High Renaissance of early modern Europe, without its avaricious, venal, culture-conscious first family, the Medici.

From New York Times

He was the grand master of the High Renaissance who died at just 37 years-old having expended too much energy chasing ladies.

From BBC

It was his fate to work in the aftermath of the High Renaissance, to visit the Vatican and look up at the Sistine Chapel ceiling and know that the contest wasn’t close.

From New York Times

The Marys are represented by 11 glazed-ceramic heads, busts and nearly life-size figures, all clearly based on Donatello’s emaciated Mary Magdalene, a surpassing sculpture made in the 1450s on the verge of the High Renaissance.

From New York Times

In the “Transparencies” series of 1927-30, Picabia shifts gears radically, smoothing his surfaces and layering together the outlines of images from the High Renaissance, popular culture and Catalan frescoes, combining Botticelli saints with half-dressed starlets.

From New York Times