Example sentences for: renaissance

How can you use “renaissance” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Escape down the little paved road south of town to the peace of the shady Romanesque and Renaissance cloisters of the 14th-century Certosa di San Giacomo, or in the direction of Via Camerelle that eventually leads to the famous Punta Tragara lookout and the Faraglioni.

  • After a trip to Italy, on which he saw the frescoes from the Italian Renaissance, he dropped Cubism for what soon became his well-known mural painting.

  • A time-locked city of rich russet browns and weathered ochres, Siena is as perfectly medieval as greystone Florence is a Renaissance showcase, yet contrasts with its centuries-old rival to the north are striking and inevitable.

  • Visits to the tombs outside of town are organized from the National Museum, housed in the fine 15th-century Gothic-Renaissance Palazzo Vitelleschi as you enter Tarquinia.

  • As 1970s American cinema enjoys a critical renaissance, reviewers lap up the gossip in a book about its groundbreaking directors.


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