period between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment period between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment. (throughout Europe – from 14-16 centuries).

Characteristics: humanism and anthropocentrism (interest, first of all, to a man and his activities). Interest to Ancient Culture.

The Byzantine Empire fell and people from there came to Europe. They took libraries and works of art, containing many ancient sources with them, unknown to medieval Europe. The first Academy was founded in Florence.

Works of the three great masters of the Italian Renaissance mark this period Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) Raphael (1483-1520)

‘LAST SUPPER’ by Leonardo da Vinci shows a scene of Christ's last meal with his disciples. It is believed that the work shows the moment when Jesus pronounces the words that one of his apostles will betray him.

At that time was considered that ….. Mind - is an invaluable gift of nature, which differs man from all things, makes him godlike.

In 1492, in search of a trade route to Asia, the Spanish monarchs approved Christopher Columbus plan to go to the west across the Atlantic Ocean in search of ‘India’. He landed on the continent, opening for Europeans "New World", America.

In 1498 a Portuguese expedition led by Vasco da Gama was able to reach India, having rounded Africa and opening a direct trade route to Asia. Soon after the Portuguese had gone even further to the east, reaching the "Spice Islands" in 1512 and landed in China a year later.

"All - poison everything - medication; It defines both dose " At that time great changes in theory and practice of medicine were done ……. A lot due to works of Paracelsus Paracelsus. Made a critical revision of the ideas of ancient medicine. He introduced chemicals into medicine. "All - poison everything - medication; It defines both dose "

Literature Dante Alighieri - the great Italian poet, thinker. The creator of the "Divine Comedy"

In the poem "New Life" Dante sang his first youthful love - Beatrice Portinari, who died in 1290 at the age of 24. Dante and Beatrice became a symbol of love as Petrarch and Laura, Tristan and Isolde, Romeo and Juliet.

Сomic genres gained a lot of popularity: Decameron" by Boccaccio "Don Quixote" by Cervantes "Gargantua and Pantagruel" Francois Rabelais

The most famous playwrights of this time was William Shakespeare (1564-1616, England) and Lope de Vega (1562-1635, Spain)

Architecture was based on the principles and forms of Ancient, mostly Roman Art: - symmetry, - proportion, - geometry The greatest building of that period is in Baroque style – St. Peter's Basilica