From the 14th through 17th century, Italians looked backward ... These values are visually represented within several Renaissance motifs characteristic of art from this period.

Following the plague, a reorganized social structure emerged from the ashes of 14th century Italy — one that valued individual expression ... leading to a rapid expanse of knowledge and culture unlike ...

Spanning from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in the 14th century, the Middle Ages encompassed a thousand years of social, cultural, and religious upheaval, and — most importantly ...