15 Facts About English Renaissance

English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England from the early 16th century to the early 17th century.

English Renaissance is different from the Italian Renaissance in several ways.

Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance.

The English Renaissance period began far later than the Italian, which was moving into Mannerism and the Baroque by the 1550s or earlier.

English Renaissance'story plays dealt with more recent events, like A Larum for London which dramatizes the sack of Antwerp in 1576.

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Elizabeth herself was a product of English Renaissance humanism trained by Roger Ascham, and wrote occasional poems such as "On Monsieur's Departure" at critical moments of her life.

English Renaissance thought advanced towards modern science with the Baconian Method.

The English Renaissance Reformation produced a huge programme of iconoclasm that destroyed almost all medieval religious art, and all but ended the skill of painting in England; English Renaissance art was to be dominated by portrait painting, and then later landscape art, for centuries to come.

Significant English Renaissance invention was the portrait miniature, which essentially took the techniques of the dying art of the illuminated manuscript and transferred them to small portraits worn in lockets.

Key composers from the early English Renaissance era wrote in a late Medieval style, and as such, they are transitional figures.

English Renaissance wrote mass cycles, fragments, and single movements and a variety of other sacred works.

English Renaissance was one of the most famous composers active in the early 15th century, a near-contemporary of Power, and was widely influential, not only in England but on the continent, especially in the developing style of the Burgundian School.

English Renaissance was recognized for possessing something never heard before in music of the Burgundian School: la contenance angloise, a term used by the poet Martin le Franc in his Le Champion des Dames.

In 1588, Nicholas Yonge published in England the Musica transalpina—a collection of Italian madrigals that had been Anglicized—an event which began a vogue of madrigal in England which was almost unmatched in the English Renaissance in being an instantaneous adoption of an idea, from another country, adapted to local aesthetics.

English Renaissance poetry was exactly at the right stage of development for this transplantation to occur, since forms such as the sonnet were uniquely adapted to setting as madrigals; indeed, the sonnet was already well developed in Italy.