The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence was felt in literature, philosophy, art, music, politics, science, religion, and other aspects of intellectual inquiry. Renaissance scholars employed the humanist method in study, and searched for realism and human emotion in art.

The Renaissance spread their ideas through the printing press discovery which had taken place in the 1449.

In politics the Renaissance contributed to the development of the conventions of diplomacy, and in science an increased reliance on observation that would flower later in the Scientific Revolution which began in the 17th century.

The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and 
later spreading to the rest of Europe.