HIGH RENAISSANCE

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Meaning:

The artistic style of early 16th century painting in Florence and Rome; characterized by technical mastery and heroic composition and humanistic content

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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("High Renaissance" is a kind of...):

artistic style; idiom (the style of a particular artist or school or movement)

Holonyms ("High Renaissance" is a part of...):

Renaissance; Renascence (the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries)

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