The cultural and artistic revolution which originated in the N. Italian city-states of the 14th c.
This was an artistic revolution which was to retain its validity for the next five centuries.
The 'birth' of new interest in Classical Greco-Latin world, that artistic revolution of the Early Renaissance matured to what is now known as the High Renaissance.
Yet, when Camille Pissarro, the Impressionist patriarch, died in 1903, everybody agreed that this movement was the main XIXth century artistic revolution, and that all its members were among the finest painters.
In this sense, these artistic revolutionaries have neither discarded the desire to communicate content to the viewer nor rejected the connection of their highly expressive art form to life.
Hans Hofmann was the only artist of the New York School to participate directly in the artistic revolution that took place in Europe during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
When Cassatt settled in Paris, an artistic revolution was already underway in France. Changes were occurring in the way that artists showed their work to the public, and in the freedom artists had to choose their own subjects and styles.
 See also: Painting, Movement, Renaissance, Classic, School
  
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