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When did the High Renaissance take place in Italy?
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Renaissance
Last Supper, wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci, 1495–98, after its restoration was completed in 1999; in Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.
The High Renaissance in Italy was a period of approximately 35 years that flourished from the early 1490s until 1527. This era, which represented the culmination of 15th-century artistic experimentation, reached its height between the 1490s and the 1520s. The period concluded in 1527 when Rome was sacked by the troops of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.123