The Renaissance Period

By: Michael Gordon

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 word renaissance comes from France and it means “Re-birth” the important people inherentants were Scalars, artist, and scientist

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When and where did the Renaissance begin?

After the mid-evil era, in Europe. It began in Florence Italy and spread though out Europe, in the 1300’s to the 1600’s

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Influential People

The most influential people were the middle class people, because they had more than enough money for food, they had time to spend on entertainment and education, and they had big luxurious houses.  They also knew how to read which was good for understanding a contract.

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Art and Architecture

Leonardo da Vinci, I picked him because he has a cool name, he painted the last supper, painted the Mona Lisa

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Music

Giovanni Pierluigi was an Italian composer.  He was the most famous Roman School representative in the 16^th century.  He was married and had three children.  He taught music at the Seminario Romano. In the 1560s and 1570s his fame and influences increased tremendously.

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Literature

Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, greatest work was the divine comedy, and I picked him because he is Italian like me and he made a comedy

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Math and Science

Fillipo Brunelleschi I picked him because his last name sounds like Mrs. Brabriski, he loved math, and science. He one of the first associated with the Italian renaissance in Florence

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How the Renaissance affects us.

In the beginning of the Renaissance time period, clocks began to develop.  In 1280, eye glasses were invented.  Another invention made in this time period was flushing a toilet.  Now everyone flushes the toilet.  Without some of these inventions it would be more difficult to do things.  They discovered matches, so they would not have to rub sticks together anymore.  In the 16^th century the Italians spread to Europe.  This spread influenced literature, philosophy, art, politics, science, religion, and many other things.  They invented the printing press and reopening trade routes between China and Europe.  The Renaissance is important to us today because they made many great inventions.  If they did not invent many of these things people would not have the technology we have today.  The Renaissance was the start of the modern age.

Rinehart, and Winston. CDRom Textbook: World History Medieval 

 to Early Modern Times, Student Edition, Stanley M. 

 Burstein,Orlando,Holt, Rinehart and Winston,2006. 

 student edition. a harcourt education company, 2006. 

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