By: Nick deJong
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 name Renaissance means "rebirth" in French. The ideas that were being reborn were interests in Greek and Roman writings. It refers to the period that followed Europe's Medieval Times. This period was characterized by new advances in sciences and the arts by scholars, scientists, and artists building on classical Greek and Roman ideas.
When and where did the Renaissance begin?
The Renaissance began in the 1300s and spread through Europe through the 1600s. The Renaissance stared in Florence, Italy, and spread through all of Europe.
The most influential people were explorers, artists, scholars, builders, and merchants. Explorers were influential because they traveled the world and brought back treasure, artists because their paintings were beautiful, scholars and scientists because they thought of new ideas, builders because they created magnificent buildings, and merchants because they had money and gave people the things they needed.
I chose Michelangelo because he made many great sculptures and painted the roof of the Sistine chapel. He was born on March 6, 1475 near Arezzo, in Caprese, Tuscany.
Claudio Monteverdi was born in 1567 in Cremona, in Northern Italy.
Miguel de Cervantes was born on September 29, 1547 Alcalá de Henares, Spain. he wrote the book Don Quixote.
Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci on April 15, 1452. He Is known for his paintings but also has dissected human bodies to find out how muscles worked and how bones moved. he filled his notebooks with sketches of plants, animals, and machines. He also worked on inventions and built a way that humans could fly.
How the Renaissance affects us.
The Renaissance affected us in a good way because the invention of the printing press made production of books faster and paper made books cheaper.
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