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The Renaissance lasted from the late 1300’s through the early 1500’s. The word Renaissance means ‘rebirth’. It was a time to leave the Dark Ages and try to return to the glory of ancient Greece and Rome. The Renaissance started in the city-states of Italy. Florence, Naples, and Venice were all at the heart of this rebirth of Europe.
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Florence, Italy
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Venice Italy
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The Renaissance was a time to explore the greatness of humans once again. This movement was called Humanism. People questioned the idea of original sin that the church promoted and believed that humans were naturally good. Philosophers of the Renaissance studied the Greeks and Romans heavily. These new beliefs were reflected in all aspects of culture.
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Cultural Advances Music & Theater Literature Architecture Painting & Sculpture
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Renaissance music The lute madrigals
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Many of the artists and thinkers of the Renaissance opposed some church beliefs but did not stop believing in the Christian God. Their work reflected the glory of God and his greatest creation - Man.
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Michelangelo THE SISTINE CHAPEL
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Michelangelo Pieta
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Michelangelo The David
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Many wealthy merchants could afford to pay artists/musicians to do nothing but create. This free time allowed the artists/musicians to create works they would never have been able to on their own. Here are some examples:
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Donatello
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Vermeer girl with a Pearl earring The astronomer The geographer
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Raphael
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Mona Lisa “The Renaissance Man” Leonardo Da Vinci
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THE LAST SUPPER
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DA VINCI INVENTIONS
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Lucrezia Borgia Isabella d’Este Many women during the Renaissance were exposed to art, literature, and music. They learned to read, write, paint, and many other things. These women helped others learn how to do things only men were allowed to do up to that point in history. They paved the way for some great women to have a powerful place in European history: Isabella of Spain Elizabeth of England
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Some thinkers upset the Catholic Church with their ideas and inventions. Copernicus and Galileo were both in trouble for their teachings. Despite their troubles, they both helped many other thinkers question the world around them and change the world forever.
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GALILEO COPERNICUS
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Isaac Newton Jean-Jacque Rousseau Both men had changed the way Europeans looked at the world.
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Life Liberty Property JOHN LOCKE
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Thanks to Johann Gutenberg and his Printing press, literacy began to spread. Many people could now write down their ideas and have them spread all over Europe.
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People could now read the Bible and form their own interpretations of it. Authors like Machiavelli and Cervantes showed how the average man was mistreated by nobility and deserved more rights. Literacy also lead to a proliferation of playwrights expressing their ideas of society and helping people think about life.
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Miguel Cervantes
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William Shakespeare
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The Renaissance started people questioning the Catholic Church and its teachings. This was unintentional, but had far reaching effects. A German priest named Martin Luther would take the biggest stand against the church and change Christianity forever. But that is the next story in Europe.
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