{"id":10092,"date":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10091"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:18:28","slug":"proto-renaissance-or-trecento-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/20\/proto-renaissance-or-trecento-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Proto-Renaissance or Trecento in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Adoration of the Magi by Trecento artist, Gentile da Fabriano, Proto-Renaissance\" alt=\"Adoration of the Magi by Trecento artist, Gentile da Fabriano, Proto-Renaissance\" src=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/gentile-s-adoration-of-the-magi-detail-6684a8c41680.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Adoration of the Magi (detail) 1423 by Gentile da Fabriano, Proto-Renaissance\/Trecento painting, tempera on wood, 300 x 282 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>The <strong>Proto-Renaissance<\/strong> or Trecento (from Italian &#8220;mille trecento,&#8221; 1300) refers to Italian culture of the 14th century. It was in the <strong>Proto-Renaissance <\/strong>that the ornamental, very detailed, International Gothic style of painting by artists like Gentile da Fabriano was in full bloom. The <strong>Proto-Renaissance <\/strong>style of painting and sculpture was shortly to change, however. Brewing in the <strong>Proto-Renaissance <\/strong>was a new style, more simple and classical which would revolutionize the art world. It is during the <strong>Proto-Renaissance <\/strong>that we see the beginnings of <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10035\">Early Renaissance<\/a> Art in<\/span> <span>Italy<\/span><span>. <strong>Proto-Renaissance<\/strong> or Trecento painters like <a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10045\">Giotto<\/a> di Bondone and others were active during this time. <strong>Proto-Renaissance <\/strong>artists laid a solid groundwork upon which later artists were able to build. The <strong>Proto-Renaissance<\/strong> or Trecento was also a time of extraordinary literary achievement, with <strong>Proto-Renaissance<\/strong>\/Trecento writers like Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio leading the field. <\/span> <br> <br> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span>Brenda Harness, Art Historian<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/?p=10045\">Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance Painter<\/a> <br><div>Information about early Italian Renaissance painter Giotto di Bondone who began the movement to the return to Greek and Roman ideals of naturalism in Italian Renaissance art.<\/div><\/li> <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Proto-Renaissance or Trecento (from Italian &#8220;mille trecento,&#8221; 1300) refers to Italian culture of the 14th century. It was in the Proto-Renaissance that the ornamental, very detailed, International Gothic style of painting by artists like Gentile da Fabriano was in full bloom. The Proto-Renaissance style of painting and sculpture was shortly to change, however. Brewing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italian-renaissance-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10342,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearttouch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}