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High Renaissance

noun

The artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content.

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... is a gallery of the masterpieces of the high Renaissance, formed by the Grand Dukes, who brought here from their own villas and from the Uffizi the greatest works in their possession. Like other Italian galleries, it suffered from Napoleon's generals; ...

— Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa • Edward Hutton

... required a brave, a vigorous, and an original thinker to discover any merit in any painter before Raffael, except perhaps, as Goldsmith wisely remarked, Perugino. The man who went then to the Uffizi or the Pitti, after admiring as in duty bound his High Renaissance masters, found himself suddenly confronted with the Judith or the Calumny, and straightway wondered what manner of strange wild beasts these were that some insane early Tuscan had once painted to amuse himself in a lucid interval. They ...

— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen