Renaissance

The renaissance was a period in European history, from the 14th century to the 17th, regarded as the cultural bridge between the Middle Ages and the modern history. It started as a cultural movement in Italy in the medical period and later spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the modern age. Another word for describing the renaissance is rebirth.  

1305 Giotto completes his work on the scrovegni chapel in Padua

1308  Dante writes his epic poem the divine comedy 

1341 the first great humanist, Petrarch, is named the poet laureate of Rome 

1419 architect Brunelleschi designs the dome for the Florence cathedral

1434 the Medici family becomes the head of city state of Florence 

1450 Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press 

1453 the Ottoman Empire captures the city of Constantinople, signaling an end to the Byzantine empire 

1469 Lorenzo de Medici becomes head of the city state of Florence. He’s one of the great Peyton’s of the arts 

1485 Henry VII becomes king of England beginning the reign of the house of Tudor 

1486 Botticelli completes the painting the birth of Venus 

1492 explorer Christopher Columbus discovers the America’s 

1495 Leonardo da Vinci paints the last supper 

1498 Vasco da gama arrives in India after sailing around the southern top of Africa from Portugal 

1501 Michelangelo begins his work on the sculpture David 

1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa 

1508 Michelangelo begins his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel 

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Renaissance saw the rebirth of European culture after the dark ages and ushered in the modern two of secularism, rationality and individualism 

Was an efflorescence of arts primarily visual and literary, as well as a rediscovery of Roman and Greek culture 

The architecture feature all sorts of Greek volumes and triangular pediments and Roman arches and domes 

Looks like an actual Greek building 

Not only rediscovered Greek an Roman art, discover Greek and Roman wiring and their ideas 

Renaissance artists were religious 

Humanists studies literature, philosophy, history, now known as liberal arts 

15th and 16th centuries 

Italy spawned the renaissance, because of money, so they could invest in art and architecture etc 

Traded with Islamic empires, venice wouldn’t have afforded all those painters, paint or fancy clothes without trade with ottomans  

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