The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Renaissance:

Renaissance – cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform across Europe, this is a general use of the term.

Essence of the Renaissance

Renaissance

• Cultural movement
• Time period, age, or era

History of the Renaissance period

• Early modern Europe
• High Renaissance

Renaissance developments by field

• Confectionery in the English Renaissance
• Gunpowder warfare
• Renaissance philosophy
  • Platonism in the Renaissance
  • List of Renaissance commentators on Aristotle
  • English Renaissance philosophy
  • French Renaissance philosophy
  • German Renaissance philosophy
  • Italian Renaissance philosophy
  • Renaissance humanism
    • Renaissance humanism in Northern Europe
  • Spanish Renaissance philosophy
• History of science in the Renaissance
  • Evolutionary ideas of the Renaissance and Enlightenment
  • Medical Renaissance
• Renaissance technology
  • English Renaissance technology
  • French Renaissance technology
  • German Renaissance technology
  • Italian Renaissance technology
  • Spanish Renaissance technology

Renaissance art

Renaissance art

• High Renaissance
• Renaissance architecture
  • Brick Renaissance
  • List of Renaissance structures
  • List of English Renaissance theatres
  • Italian Renaissance architecture
    • Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
    • Italian Renaissance domes
    • Italian Renaissance interior design
  • Renaissance architecture in Central and Eastern Europe
  • English Renaissance architecture
    • Elizabethan architecture (Early English Renaissance architecture)
    • List of English Renaissance theatres
  • French Renaissance architecture
    • Renaissance architecture of Toulouse
  • German Renaissance architecture
    • Saxon Renaissance
    • Weser Renaissance
  • Italian Renaissance architecture
    • Venetian Renaissance architecture
  • Mosan Renaissance architecture
  • Polish Cathedral style
  • Spanish Renaissance architecture
• Renaissance dance
  • English Renaissance dance
  • French Renaissance dance
  • German Renaissance dance
  • Italian Renaissance dance
  • Spanish Renaissance dance
• Renaissance gardening
  • Italian Renaissance garden
  • Gardens of the French Renaissance
• Renaissance literature
  • Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods
  • Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature (Netherlands)
  • English Renaissance literature
  • French Renaissance literature
  • German Renaissance literature
  • Greek scholars in the Renaissance
  • Italian Renaissance literature
  • Spanish Renaissance literature
  • Swedish reformation and Renaissance literature
• Renaissance music
  • English Renaissance music
  • French Renaissance music
  • German Renaissance music
  • Italian Renaissance music
  • Spanish Renaissance music
  • Transition from Renaissance to Baroque in instrumental music
• Renaissance painting
  • Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting (Netherlands)
    • Early Netherlandish painting
  • English Renaissance painting
  • French Renaissance painting
  • German Renaissance painting
  • Italian Renaissance painting
    • Themes in Italian Renaissance painting
  • Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting
  • Spanish Renaissance painting
• Sculpture in the Renaissance period
• Renaissance theatre
  • English Renaissance theatre
  • French Renaissance theatre
  • German Renaissance theatre
  • Italian Renaissance theatre
  • Spanish Renaissance theatre

The Renaissance by region

• Italian Renaissance (1401–1600)
  • Italian Renaissance architecture
    • Italian Renaissance interior design
    • Venetian Renaissance architecture
  • Italian Renaissance dance
  • Italian Renaissance gardening
  • Italian Renaissance literature
  • Italian Renaissance music
  • Italian Renaissance painting
    • Italian Renaissance painting, development of themes
  • Italian Renaissance philosophy
  • Italian Renaissance sculpture
  • Roman Renaissance
  • Sicilian Renaissance
  • Venetian Renaissance
    • Venetian Renaissance architecture
• Armenian Renaissance
• Croatian Renaissance
• Czech Renaissance
  • Czech Renaissance architecture
• Greek Renaissance
• Northern Renaissance
  • English Renaissance (1485–1629)
    • Confectionery in the English Renaissance
    • Elizabethan architecture (Early English Renaissance architecture)
    • English Renaissance dance
    • English Renaissance literature
    • English Renaissance music
      • List of English Renaissance composers
    • English Renaissance painting
    • English Renaissance philosophy
    • English Renaissance science
    • English Renaissance technology
    • English Renaissance theatre
      • List of English Renaissance theatres
  • French Renaissance (1494–1610)
    • French Renaissance architecture
      • Renaissance architecture of Toulouse
    • French Renaissance dance
    • French Renaissance literature
    • French Renaissance music
    • French Renaissance painting
    • French Renaissance philosophy
    • French Renaissance science
    • French Renaissance technology
    • French Renaissance theatre
    • Gardens of the French Renaissance
  • German Renaissance
    • German Renaissance architecture
      • Weser Renaissance
    • German Renaissance dance
    • German Renaissance literature
    • German Renaissance music
    • German Renaissance painting
    • German Renaissance philosophy
    • German Renaissance science
    • German Renaissance technology
    • German Renaissance theatre
  • Renaissance in the Low Countries
    • Renaissance in the Netherlands
      • Netherlands Renaissance architecture
      • Netherlands Renaissance dance
      • Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
      • Netherlands Renaissance music
      • Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting
        • Early Netherlandish painting
        • Flemish painting
      • Netherlands Renaissance philosophy
      • Netherlands Renaissance science
      • Netherlands Renaissance technology
      • Netherlands Renaissance theatre
  • Renaissance in Poland (1500–1650)
    • Poland Renaissance architecture
      • Polish Cathedral style
      • Lublin Renaissance
    • Poland Renaissance dance
    • Poland Renaissance literature
    • Poland Renaissance music
    • Poland Renaissance painting
    • Poland Renaissance philosophy
    • Poland Renaissance science

v** Poland Renaissance technology

• • • Poland Renaissance theatre
  • Renaissance in Scotland
• Portuguese Renaissance (14th & 15th centuries)
  • Renaissance architecture in Portugal
• Spanish Renaissance (1550–1587)
  • Spanish Renaissance architecture
  • Spanish Renaissance dance
  • Spanish Renaissance literature
  • Spanish Renaissance music
  • Spanish Renaissance painting
  • Spanish Renaissance philosophy
  • Spanish Renaissance science
  • Spanish Renaissance technology
  • Spanish Renaissance theatre

Renaissance Historiography

• Historiography of 12th century Renaissance

Other periods of cultural rebirth

• Medieval renaissances
  • Carolingian Renaissance (8th and 9th centuries)
  • Ottonian Renaissance (10th century)
    • Palaeologan Renaissance
  • Renaissance of the 12th century
• African Renaissance
  • Ethiopian Renaissance
• American Renaissance
  • American Renaissance (literature)
  • Black Renaissance in D.C.
  • Charleston Renaissance
  • Chicago Black Renaissance
  • Harlem Renaissance
    • Harlem Renaissance theater companies
    • List of figures from the Harlem Renaissance
      • List of female entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Hawaiian Renaissance
  • Native American Renaissance
  • San Francisco Renaissance
  • Southern Renaissance (United States)
• Bengal Renaissance
• Byzantine Renaissance
• Chinese Cultural Renaissance
• Creole Renaissance
• Dinosaur renaissance
• European Urban Renaissance
• Macedonian Renaissance
• Māori renaissance
• Mexican Renaissance
• Neo-Renaissance
• Nepal Bhasa renaissance
• Renaissance Revival architecture
• Russian Religious Renaissance
• Scottish Renaissance
• Scottish Renaissance painted ceilings
• Soviet Renaissance
  • Executed Renaissance
• Renaissance of Sumer
• Tamil Renaissance
• Timurid Renaissance
• Urban renaissance (UK)
• Yiddish Renaissance

General Renaissance-related concepts

• Allegory in Renaissance literature
• Canons of Renaissance poetry
• Polymath
• Renaissance Latin
• Renaissance magic
• Renaissance man
• Renaissance magic
• Renaissance Papacy
• Renaissance reenactment
• Renaissance studies

Publications dedicated to the study of the Renaissance

• Brain Renaissance
• Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance
• International Bibliography of Humanism and the Renaissance
• Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance
• The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Periodicals on the Renaissance

• English Literary Renaissance
• Mediaeval and Renaissance Studies (defunct)
• Renaissance Magazine
• Renaissance and Reformation
• Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching

Organizations dedicated to the study or re-enactment of the Renaissance

• Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Association for Renaissance Martial Arts
• Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
• Renaissance Society of America
• Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy
• Society for Renaissance Studies

Renaissance fairs

Renaissance fair

• List of Renaissance and Medieval fairs

Important figures from the Renaissance

List of Renaissance figures

• Byzantine scholars in the Renaissance
• List of Renaissance composers
  • List of English Renaissance composers
• List of Flemish painters
• List of Italian Renaissance female artists
• List of Renaissance commentators on Aristotle
• List of Renaissance humanists

Renaissance composers

List of Renaissance composers

Renaissance painters

Leonardo da Vinci with Michelangelo and Raphael form the traditional trinity of great masters of the Renaissance.

Renaissance philosophers

• Petrarch (1304–1374)
• Leonardo Bruni (1374–1444)
• Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464)
• Lorenzo Valla (1405–1457)
• Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499)
• Pietro Pomponazzi (1462–1525)
• Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494)
• Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)
• Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
• Thomas More (1478–1535)
• Francisco de Vitoria (c.1480–1546)
• Martin Luther (1483–1546)
• Juan Luis Vives (1492–1540)
• Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
• Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
• Francisco Suárez (1548–1617)
• Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
• Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
• René Descartes (1596–1650)
• Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639)
• Franciscus Patricius (1529–1597)
• Hugo Grotius (1583–1645)
• Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
• Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531)

Renaissance scholarship

• Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
• Renaissance Studies

Renaissance in popular culture

• Games based on the Renaissance
  • [Age of Renaissance]
  • Renaissance of Infantry