ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Renaissance lasted for nearly three centuries, in three successive periods: the Trecento (14th century), the Quattrocento (15th century) and the Cinquecento (16th century).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Late Renaissance was a period at the end of the larger European Renaissance that began at the end of the High Renaissance around 1520 and ended in either the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th centuries, depending upon the specific era.

Detailed explanation-3: -Some major developments of the Renaissance include developments in astronomy, humanist philosophy, the printing press, vernacular language in writing, painting and sculpture technique, world exploration and, in the late Renaissance, Shakespeare’s works.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mannerism is the term applied to certain aspects of artistic style, mainly Italian, in the period between the High Renaissance of the early 16th century and the beginnings of Baroque art in the early 17th.