By: Brayden Jeworski
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 term Renaissance, adopted from the French equivalent of the Italian word rinascita, meaning literally "rebirth," describes the radical and comprehensive changes that took place in European culture during the 15th and 16th centuries.
When and where did the Renaissance begin?
When did the Renaissance occur?
1450-1600
The most influential people during this time were the composers. The reason why they are so influential, is because the composers developed new styles of music and arts leading to development in society. They also had the power to shape the future with their new unique styles.
Leonardo was born and raised near Vinci, Italy.
He was the son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant woman, Caterina. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the "Renaissance man", a man whose seemingly infinite curiosity was matched only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
Claudio Monteverdi was born in 1567 in Cremona, in Northern Italy. During his childhood he studied with Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, who was maestro di cappella at the cathedral in Cremona. There is no record of him as singing in the cathedral choir, so it is likely that the lessons were private. Monteverdi produced his first music for publications, known as motets and mandrigals. He soon become well known for those types of music around the world.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564.
Shakespeare was a playwright in London; his reputation was high enough for Robert Greene to denounce him as "an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers hart wrapt in a Players hyde.
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 in the city of Torun.
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first astronomer to formulate a modern heliocentric theory of the solar system in opposition to Ptolemy's earlier geocentric theory. He spent most of his working life within the bishopric of Warmia.
How the Renaissance affects us.
The Reniassance period has affected us in a way that changed the view point of everyone back then, which was carried on today. Famous people such as Nicolaus Copernicus changed the view point of the world. Everyone assumed it was flat , but he proved it to be round. The way other famous people and non-famous people shaped the future was with many new inventions and education which affect our daily lives every single day.
Burnstien, Stanley. World History Medieval to Early Modern Times. Student Edition. Orlando: Holt,Rinehar and Winston, 2006.
http://www.twingroves.district96.k12.il.us/Renaissance/Courthouse/Banking/Coins.html
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=Reniassance+poeple&go=Go