The Renaissance Period

By: Kenadi Etherington 

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


What was the Renaissance?

The renaissance was a period of time. The word "renaissance" means rebirth and to rebirth means that there is something new or there will be something new. Europe was becoming anew because there where new rulers and kings that would rule differently and in different ways.

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When and where did the Renaissance begin?

The renaissance began in Italy in the 13th century.

 

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Influential People

 The most influential people where the scientists, musicians, and literature. These people where the most influential people because they where used for the most things and they where considered artist. The types of people where studied and then there became a thing called "humanism"  

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Art and Architecture

Some of the art in the renaissance is still used to this day. The cities wealthy leaders worked together and made the city look wealthy by hiring architects to make the city the most pretty in Europe. The way that the artists sculpted and painted more of a realistic perspective. The way that we paint today is that everything that we see is realistic and we see everything as a different perspective.  

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Music

The renaissance had any types of music. There was sacred music. Sacred music is a type of music that is only for the holy church

 

 

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Literature

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Math and Science

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How the Renaissance affects us.

The renaissance has affected us because most of the stuff that we do today the people invented back in the Renaissance. Printing press has turned into  a computer and a printer. And this invention has helped us because now we can communicate faster and talk to each other in different ways. Some of the art and architecture is still used today. Like we see art in different perspectives and different colors and in different moods and themes.  

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Works Cited

World history Medieval to

Early modern times

Student Meditation

Stanley M. Burnstein

Orlando

Holt, Rineheart and Winston

2006

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