The Renaissance, a period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century often known as the Age of Humanism, began in Italy where the culture was surrounded by the remnants of a once glorious empire. The Italians rediscovered art, architecture, writings, philosophy, of ancient Romans and Greeks, and began to realize the relics as a golden age in which it inspired their society at that period of time. Artists were granted with greater flexibility in what