Four Renaissance artists named after the TMNT

Michaelangelo

Leonardo

Donatello

Rafael

Renaissance Man: a person with many talents or areas of knowledge.

The Renaissance was the

Rebirth of European

Culture after the miserable

Dark ages and

That it ushered in the

Modern era.

Of

Secularism

Rationalism

Individualism

ARTS: The Renaissance was a growth of the arts:

Visual

Literary

And ideas that coincided with the rediscovery of

Roman and Greek culture.

Renaissance art focuses on the human form.

1 - Columns2 - Domes3 - Arches

Rebirth of the arts inspired from Ancient Greece and Rome.

Greek Sculpture Renaissance Sculpture

Rebirth of the arts inspired from Ancient Greece and Rome.

Greek and Roman writings were being rediscovered during the Renaissance. This opened up a whole new world. Humanists were the ones who translated and interpreted these writings.

Humanism meant the study of the humanities like:

Literature

Philosophy “Liberal Arts”

History

It happened all across Europe but started in Italy.

Where did the Renaissance take place?

1400s - 1500s or the 15th to 16th centuries.

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Why did the Renaissance take place in Italy?

The Italian city-states were powerful for two reasons:

1 - Mini industrial power house (Florence made cloth)

2 - Venice and Genoa were centers for trade

Venice was the RICHE$T city-state in Italy.

They traded with Islamic Empire (The Ottoman Empire)

SCIENCE: Who was Copernicus? Copernicus was both a lawyer and a doctor. He discovered that the earth was NOT the center of the universe, but the sun is.

People think he got this idea from Muslim Astronomers because their diagrams of the solar system looks similar.