By: Joey Browne
What was the Renaissance? | When and where did the Renaissance begin?
Influences of the Renaissance | Art and Architecture | Music | Literature | Math and Science
How the Renaissance affects us. | Works Cited
The Renaissance means "rebirth'' in French. It refers to the period after Europe's middle ages.
When and where did the Renaissance begin?
The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy during the 1300s.
The most influential people were artists, writers, inventers, and musicians. They were the most influential people because they expressed their feelings through their work.
Leonardo da Vinci lived in Vinci, a small time near Florence. He was a painter, a sculptor, an architect, inventor, and engineer. Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, one of the most famous paintings in the world. Michelangelo was also a painter. He is most famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Maddalena Casulana was born in 1544 and died on 1590. She was a female Italian composer, lutenist and singer of the late Renaissance. She is the first female composer to have music printed and published in the history of western music. In the Renaissance period sacred music still dominated.
William Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died on 1616.Some people say that he is the greatest writer in the English language ever lived. He is famous for his writings, but he is more famous for his plays. He wrote more than 38 plays, and 154 sonnets. As well as many poems. William Shakespeare was famous in his time and is still famous today.
Johannes Gutenberg was born in1398 and died in1468. Johannes invented a printing press that used movable type. Gutenberg’s printing press helps spread new political, artistic, and religious ideas through Europe.
How the Renaissance affects us.
Discovery: Johannes Gutenberg made the printing press. It affected us because without it we would not be able to make books. The demand for more books led to improvements in printing and binding that have made modern books cheap and easily available.
Burstein, Stanley M.. World History Medieval to Early Modern Times. Student edition. Orlando: Holt,Rinehart and Winston, 2006.
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