ARTISTS AND MOVEMENTS
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
The period of European history referred to as the Renaissance was a time of great social and cultural change in Europe.The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. The English Renaissance is different from the Italian Renaissance in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian RenaissanceIt began in 1520 and continued until perhaps 1620.
-In literature: England had a strong tradition of literature in the native English, which gradually increased as English use of the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg , became common by the mid 16th century.
The period of European history referred to as the Renaissance was a time of great social and cultural change in Europe.The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. The English Renaissance is different from the Italian Renaissance in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian RenaissanceIt began in 1520 and continued until perhaps 1620.
-In literature: England had a strong tradition of literature in the native English, which gradually increased as English use of the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg , became common by the mid 16th century.
-In Visual Arts: The significant English invention was the portrait miniature, which essentially took the techniques of the dying art of the illuminated manuscript and transferred them to small portraits worn in lockets
-In Music: English Renaissance music kept in touch with continental developments far more than visual art, and managed to survive the Reformation relatively successfully.
The Italian and English Renaissances were similar in sharing a specific musical aesthetic.
One of the principal forms which emerged from that singular explosion of musical creativity was the madrigal. In 1588, Nicholas Yonge published in England a collection of italian madrigals that had been Anglicized, an event which began a vogue of madrigal in England which was almost unmatched in the Renaissance in being an instantaneous adoption of an idea, from another country, adapted to local aesthetics.
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