Introduction: The Renaissance LEARNING OBJECTIVES By the end of this section, you will be able to: List distinctive characteristics of the Renaissance music. Define Renaissance musical genres and forms and identify them in music. Know important The Renaissance Linear perspective in Renaissance painting. Christ giving the keys to Peter. Perugino, c. 1482. The Renaissance is a period from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the late medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe. Some good early examples were the development of perspective in oil painting and the recycled knowledge of how to make concrete. Although the invention of metal movable type sped the dissemination of ideas from the later fifteenth century, the changes of the Renaissance were not uniformly experienced across Europe. As a cultur...