Renaissance

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Works Consulted Batterberry, Michael. //Art of the Early Renaissance//. New York: McGRAW-HILL, 1968. Print. Discovering Art Series. Brunelleschi, Filippo. Cathedral of Florence Dome. N.d. //Beyond Books//. Web. 18 May 2010. . Filippo Brunelleschi was one of the most important and well-known architects of the renaissance. The dome in the picture is one of his best known architectural works. It is the dome for the Cathedral of Florence. His greatest contribution to the Renaissance was his idea of linear perspective as the principle of rational distribution of architectual elements in space. Simply, this means that parallel lines never meet, but when receding in space, they appear to. This gave artists a whole new way to create realistic art and it was one of Brunelleschi’s greatest accomplishments. He inspired artists that came after him and played a main role in the Renaissance. Cannon. N.d. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 May 2010. The cannon was invented by the Europeans. This gave them a huge advantage over their opponents and Europe also used it to control the native Europeans. The huge advantage that the Europeans had let them expand their power and land, giving the leader power over more of the world. Also, with more land, the Europeans had access to more resources and had to spend less money trading because it was in their own land now. Europe’s armies could concur almost anywhere they wanted to with their new gun powder and cannons because no other places had that technology yet. More resources caused the economy to go up and Europe to become bigger, richer, and more powerful. Da Vinci, Leonardo. //Mona Lisa//. N.d. //Beyond Books//. Web. 3 May 2010. . Leonardo da Vinci had many talents. He was known as the Renaissance Man and was good at just about everything. This picture, painted by da Vinci of Mona Lisa is arguably one of the best known artworks in history. As well as art, da Vinci invented. His sketches were found of new armor, submarines and flying machines. Leonardo da Vinci contributed knowledge to Italy, creating a better, more advanced society. Da Vinci’s talents made Italy wealthier in culture because they had new art, science, and math. The economy rose because they had da Vinci. Also, da Vinci was one of the first to experiment with shadowing human skin in paintings and experienced first-hand what the inside of a human body looked like. He did that so that he could paint it accurately. He opened up a whole new door to painters. “Filippo Brunelleschi.” //Biography Resource Center//. Gale, n.d. Web. 21 May 2010. . Giotto. N.d. //Beyond Books//. Web. 26 May 2010. . Often called “The Father of Renaissance Painting”, Giotto was one of the first people to create an acurate dpeth perseption in painting. He also worked on frescos. Frescos are wet plaster pieces that get painted on and then harden. From what Giotto created, then other artists such as Brunelleschi and Massiaco developed the laws of linear perspective. These artists developed laws that we still use today in art and they created great works that made a prosperus economy. Without the first idea of perspective in art by Giotto, we might still not have it today. // Lutherstadt Wittenberg //. N.d. //Beyond Books//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Apr. 2010. . This is the door that Martin Luther hung his 95 theses on. These theses or statements were writen by Luther after the church started selling indulgences, which Luther was strongly against. The 95 theses, in the end, caused a series of events that split the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church accused Luther of heresy when he fought indulgences, so the church excommunicated him. Following Luther, many priests broke from the Catholic Church as well. This caused divisions in the Catholic Church and so it lost power. The period that followed this was a time of bloody warfare. That caused less people to work, but the same ammount of people buying goods, which would bring the economy down. // The Mariner’s Astrolabe //. N.d. Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum. //Beyond Books//. Web. 30 Apr. 2010. . The astrolabe allowed sailors to keep track of the ship’s postition by comparing it to the stars. Without this invention, Christopher Columbus might not have made it to America. Christopher Columbus was exploring for Europe and thought he was in Asia, when he came upon America. Before the astrolabe, explorers did not let the coastline out of their sight, but when invented, it allowed more exploration and less fear. It providing more oppurtunity for countries to become rich because new spices and valuables could be found in new land. Also, it opened up new trade routes, which created a thriving economy because they were be able to aquire new goods. The astrolabe created more oppurtunity for kings and emperors to expand their land and get more power. Michelangelo. //The Creation of Adam//. N.d. //Beyond Books//. Web. 5 May 2010. . This is a painting done by Michelangelo. Michelangelo was a very well-known artist in the Renaissance. A supporter of Michelangelo was the Medici family. The Medici Family was a huge supporter of the arts in general. They were patrons. Patrons were people or families who supported artists or inventors when they had works-in-progress and weren’t making any money yet. Patrons such as the Medici Family were a very important contributor to the start of the Renaissance. Without them, artists and inventors would not have been able to create work and no Renaissance art would have been made. With patrons supporting the arts, Italy could make more artworks and inventions and trade more, creating a prosperous economy. Niccolo Machiavelli. N.d. //Beyond Books//. Web. 21 May 2010. . Niccolo Machiavelli, the man in the picture, wrote possibly one of the most read book of the Renaissance, The Prince. The Prince was a practical guide to how a leader should rule to maintain and gather political power. The book expressed Machiavelli’s beliefs that a ruler had to be clever and ruthless and should be feared rather than loved. The Prince was read often by many leaders and influenced their way of ruling. The bookmade some rulers harsher and meaner in the way they ruled, thus causing people to fear and even hate them. This let the leader have better control beacuse he was feared, but also made him less liked. Prince of the Humanists. N.d. //Beyond Books//. Web. 5 May 2010. . This picture is of Desidarius Erasmus, a very famous Christian humanist who believed that in order to reform yourself and society, you should study the ancient classics and the Bible. Since everyone could only rely on priests to tell whatthe bible said,Erasmus translated the Bible into Greek. By doing this, the Bible could be more closely read by Greeks too, therefore allowing Christianity to spread.One of Erasmus’s close friends was Thomas Moore. They had similar ideas, but Moore was trying to spread Christianity to England. He sugested the idea of a “Utopia” or a perfect world. Then, King Henry VIII had Moore beheaded for opposing his religious policies and refusing to compromise his beliefs. Even when Moore was dead, his ideas continued to spread throughout the country Slaves. N.d. //Beyond Books//. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 May 2010. . The exploration that happened in the Renaissance was so bad, that almost no other event could even come close to being as devastating. The native people of anywhere that was “discovered” were enslaved and tortured. Almost no people native to their land in America came out alive.Items and goods were traded for slaves, thus bringing the economy up. Also, during the explorations, the Spanish tried to convert enslaved natives to Christianity. Their attempts were successful and Christianity becamemore widely spread. Owning more slaves could mean more power for the leaders because they had more people in their and, therefore more people to work. Zollner, Frank. //Leonardo//. New York: Barnes and Noble, 2001. Print.

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