Italian Renaissance painting
Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period from the early 15th to mid 16th centuries occurring within the area of present-day Italy, which was at that time divided into many political areas. The painters of Renaissance Italy, although often attached to particular courts and with loyalties to particular towns, nonetheless wandered the length and breadth of Italy, often occupying a diplomatic status and disseminating both artistic and philosophical ideas.
The city that is renowned as the birthplace of the Renaissance and in particular, Renaissance painting, is Florence. A detail background is given in the companion articles. Italian Renaissance painting can be divided into four periods:

• Proto-Renaissance, 1290–1400.
• Early Renaissance, 1400–1475.
• High Renaissance, 1475–1525.
• Mannerism, 1525–1600.