Renaissance scholars such as Niccol?The Renaissance was certainly already underway before Lorenzo came to power, however.The Renaissance began in times of religious turmoil.The Renaissance as it occurred in Northern Europe has been termed the Northern Renaissance.In 1526 the Ottoman conquest of Hungary put an abrupt end to the short-lived Hungarian Renaissance.The paintings of the Italian Renaissance differed from those of the Northern Renaissance.For Michelet, the Renaissance was more a development in science than in art and culture.A French nationalist, Michelet also sought to claim the Renaissance as a French movement.The Renaissance's characteristics.Italian Renaissance painting, Renaissance painting, and Renaissance architecture.