Throughout Italy's long history it has gone through essentially 3 times periods in regards to food and culture; the Ancient times, Imperial Rome, and the New World/Renaissance. The ancient times were important in Italy's culture because that is when the first civilization settled in Italy, this group of people was called the Etruscans. ... The New World/Renaissance time period was very significant in Italy's history and arguably the most important in its culture. During this time Italy had the majority of explorers going to the New World that resulted in a vast amount of dive...

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The Renaissance originated in Italy. It is know that the Renaissance was and artistic and intellectual development in which the Italian city-states were aided by a flourishing economy, set against a divided and chaotic political background. ... Italian Renaissance artists appeared as strong and natural as the Greek and Roman nudes that inspired them. ... This was a time when Italian art reached a peak of accomplishment. ... The Renaissance in Northern Europe is art that was produced in countries north of Italy, which was in the first half of the sixteenth century. ...

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The renaissance began in 1400 in Italy, from there the new ideas spread to northern Europe. The renaissance began in Italy because of their great amount of wealth and center of the trade world. ... Though the renaissance had just begun in Italy, many families had become very wealthy and were interested in arts and architecture. ... After the sack of Rome Italy fell apart, they were no longer the leading renaissance country in Europe. ... This shows how architecture had spread and developed from Italy in the early renaissance. ...

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The Renaissance was the age of creativity, experimentation, and discovery. ... The Renaissance period took place from 1265 AD to 1633 AD. ... Italy was at the center of intense creativity we now call the Renaissance, meaning "rebirth". The Italian humanists were inspired by the classical works of Greece and Rome. The Italian humanists revived this type of culture and took it in as a new way of looking at the world. ...

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Raphael was a painter of the Italian High Renaissance. ... He was, however, in constant contact with the advanced ideas of the artwork around Italy. ... Urbino, Raphael's hometown, had become a center of culture during the Renaissance. . ...

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He spent years in Italy creating his works and finally returned to Antwerp when his mother died in 1608. ... Rubens was very much influenced by the artists of northern Europe of his time so he traveled to Italy where it happened to be the center of art at that period. ... There, for nine years, he did many originals and also copies of Renaissance paintings. ... When he left Italy to return to Flanders he was considered one of the greatest because of his use of baroque style. ...

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Raphael, an Italian Renaissance painter, is considered one of the greatest and most popular artists of all time. ... In this short space of time, this young artist multiplied masterpieces and left behind the most complete, serene, and harmonious expression of the renaissance. ...

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Rome had first expanded into other parts of Italy and neighboring territories during the Roman Republic (509-27 BC), but made wider conquests and solidified political control of theses lands during the empire. ... The Romans and their empire gave cultural and political shape to the subsequent history of Europe from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the present day. ...

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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (1483-1520) Raphael was born at Urbino, a most important city of Italy, in 1483, on Good Friday, at three in the morning. ... He learned by studying the works of the masters, and thus developed the methods of representing the play of light and shade on a figure (chiaroscuro), anatomy and dramatic action most frequently associated with the high Renaissance. ...

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