The Renaissance Period
By:
Lyra
Hudson
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 were a period of renewal of the Greek and Roman times.
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When and where did the Renaissance begin?
The
Renaissance began in the late
Middle Ages and
spanned roughly the
14th through the
17th century.
The Renaissance started in Italy
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Influential
People
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Art and Architecture
One of the distinguishing features
Renaissance art is its development of highly realistic linear
perspective.
Giotto
di Bondone
is credited with first treating the canvas as a window into
space, but it was not until the work of
Filippo Brunelleschi
and
Leon Battista Alberti
that perspective was formalised as an artistic technique.The
development of perspective was part of a wider trend towards
realism in the arts .To that end, painters also developed other
techniques, studying light, shadow, and, famously in the case of
Leonardo da Vinci,
human anatomy.
Underlying these changes in artistic method was a renewed desire
to depict the beauty of nature, and to unravel the axioms of
aesthetics.
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Music
Renaissance music is
European music
written during the
Renaissance,
approximately 1400 to 1600.
Defining the
beginning of the era is difficult,
given the lack of abrupt shifts in musical thinking during the
15th century. Additionally, the process by which music acquired
Renaissance characteristics was a gradual one, and musicologists
have placed its beginnings from as early as 1300 to as late as
the 1470s. Recent contributions to musicological research
however suggest that the concept should be avoided altogether,
or at least used with utmost care, due to the extreme
difficulties in defining the meaning and periodization of the
term. It is safe to state that the Italian humanist movement,
uncovering and proliferating the aesthetics of antique Roman and
Greek art, contributed to an accelerated revalidation of music
on a conceptual level, but its direct influence on music theory,
composition and performance remains suggestive.
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Literature
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Math and Science
The upheavals occurring in the arts and
humanities were mirrored by a dynamic period of change in the
sciences. Some have seen this flurry of activity as a
scientific revolution
heralding the beginning of the modern age.
Others have seen it merely as an acceleration of a continuous
process stretching from the ancient world to the present day.
Regardless, there is general agreement that the Renaissance saw
significant changes in the way the universe was viewed and the
methods with which philosophers sought to explain natural
phenomena.
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How the Renaissance affects us.
The Renaissance
affects us to day because to day things are vary
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Works Cited
World
History Medieval to Early Modern Times
Student
Edition
Stanley
M. Burstein
Orlando
Holt,
Rinehart and Winston 2006
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