The Renaissance Period

By: Stephen King

 

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 time period where the rebirth of  the Middle Ages followed. The word "renaissance" means rebirth and to rebirth means that there is something new or there will be something new.

 

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When and where did the Renaissance begin?

 It began in Florence, Italy in Europe during the 1300s to the 1600s.
 

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Influential People

Influential people during the Renaissance Era were Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, William Shakespeare and Marco Polo. Marco Polo was famous because he used the Silk Road from Europe to Asia and lived there for 20 years then came back and told people about Asia. William Shakespeare was famous because he was a pioneer to poets and people who loved Literature. Michelangelo was famous because he was a phenomenal painter and sculptor who also worked for the Church. Some of Michelangelo's greatest masterpieces were the Sistine Chapel.  Leonardo was famous because he used math in his pieces of art and also studied Anatomy . Some of his masterpieces were the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and the Vitruvian Man.

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Art and Architecture

Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo changed the world with their phenomenal artistic talents.

Italian art was far more impressive to early art because they used perspective which means they used straight lines, color, and smaller items in the background.

Michelangelo was a great artist, which many of his works was for the Roman Catholic Church.

Leonardo De Vinci is famous for humanity and painted the Mona Lisa.

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Music

Music during the Renaissance was more sacred than secular. Niccolo  was a musician.

 

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Literature

William Shakespeare was an amazing poetic artist who touched people with his delicate and astounding word pictures.

 

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Math and Science

Leonardo De Vinci is famous for humanity and painted the Mona Lisa.

The created new symbols to make math more complex and to explain things.

 

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How the Renaissance affects us.

They have made many things to help us and made a new era that changed the world forever.

The Printing Press helped us to make books and re-write the bible.
 

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Works Cited

Burstein, Stanley M, History Medieval to Early Modern Times. Student. Orlando: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2006.

 

Wikipedia Contributors , "William Shakespeare ." Wikipedia . Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. 25 Apr 2007 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare>.

 

 

 

 

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