The Renaissance

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"The Renaissance"

Background The Renaissance period is one of the most interesting in history. From the French, the word "Renaissance" means re-birth. Which is a good description of the period. The general consensus is that it started around 1260 and ended around 1600.

Principal & Soruces
Humanism and its study of the classical writing of the past had an indirect impact on the changes during the Renaissance. We know that Nicholaus Copernicus was influenced by studying the writing of antiquity.

The Science in the Renaissance
Most of the scientific advances during the Renaissance were made by scholastic thinkers and not humanists. The humanists, and their inherent dislike for ordered, logical thought may actually have slowed the advance of science. Humanists believed that scholastic thinkers were not addressing the real needs of humanity.
Scholastic thinking was used to break the long held belief that the entire physical universe was centered on humankind. For example, gravity was believed to be the desire for all objects to be at the center of the earth.

Arts in the Renaissance
The Renaissance is best known for its achievements in art, literature and music. The Renaissance artists broke from medieval traditions in painting, sculpture and architecture.
The use of mathematics and geometry to achieve perspective and proportions became common. Surviving classical Roman sculptures provided inspirations for the new Renaissance artists.

Literature in the Renaissance
The humanists and their reverence for the classics in Greek and Rome, had the effect of stifling the growth in creative literature. Their extreme reverence had the effect of encouraging the close imitation and copying of classical authors. Some artists were achieving a degree of fame and the writers wanted the same. Writers felt the need to be recognized and this encouraged them to try new and innovative things.

Art: the art in the Renaissance time are based on everyday life and nature, both paintings and sculptures were being used perspective to make them realisitc.
Examples: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael

Literature: many peices of work are written in their native language and didn't based on religion.
Examples: Dante, Boccacio, Shakespeare

Science: people searched the truth by their own observation and do experiments themselves and do not blindly believe all the words of the Church
Example: Copernicus, Galileo

In the Middle Ages, the knowledge of art, literature and science are only based on the words of Church, but they were all changed in the Renaissance, so the Renaissance is a periodof challenging tradition.