What exactly was the reaissance period?

What exactly was the renaissance period?? RENAISSANCE, coming form the Latin word, rinascere, meaning, to be "reborn". The Italian renaissance is what historians call "the beginning of the modern world", in an art sense. This was a time when many people were gratified through their talents in art, literature and architecture. These achievements influenced the future of many artists , art movements, philosophies and ideas through many centuries and all over the world. The beginning of …

…look realistic. Works were not only assessed through the skill, the time and the effort involved in the work, oh and not to mention whom the artist was themselves, but also how religious or truly meaningful the work was through its religious depiction. Most artist gathered their fame, fortune and more importantly the well earn recinison of their talents through working for the government, or noble family of the time, which I have explained earlier.