The Spanish Renaissance refers to a movement in Spain, emerging from the Italian Renaissance in Italy during the 14th century, that spreads to Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries.

The year 1492 is commonly accepted as the beginning of the influence of the Renaissance in Spain.This new focus in art, literature and science, inspired by Classical antiquity and especially the Greco-Roman tradition, receives the transcendental impulse in this year by various successive historical events, including the unification of the longed-for Christian kingdom with the definitive taking of Granada, last city of Islamic Spain and the successive expulsions of thousands of Muslim and Jewish believers,together with the official discovery of the western hemisphere, the Americas, and the publication of the first grammar of a vernacular European language, the Grammatica (Grammar) by Antonio de Nebrija.