The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th-century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th-century The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting as well as sculpture and architecture Depicting the ideal and ...