Renaissance

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• A "rebirth" of western culture.  

1. Florence, Italy

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   • Italy was the place where Renaissance birth and growth.  Time: 1300s
   1. New Economy

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      • The growth of trading and commerce is the start of Renaissance. New economy brought in new thoughts.  
      1. Changes

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         • There are lots of new changes during the Renaissance. People had lots of new ideas and thoughts.
         1. Art

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            • Art is a big changes in the renaissance. It had a new style on most of the art work. Base on classical art,
            1. Michelangelo

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               • A amazing painter and sculptor. He was a serious and had a bad temper, which he is also famous for that.
            2. Donatello

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               • Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, a famous sculptor from Florence. His works were all realistic and lifelike. 
            3. Raphael

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               • Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael), was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. 
            4. Perspective

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               • Renaissance art had three perspective used. It was different than middle age, which was in front of Renaissance.
         2. Humanism

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            • A new kind of thoughts that came in Eurpoe d
            1. Petrarch

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               • He was a person who loved reading books and enjoyed collecting old books. 
            2. independent Thinking

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               • A
         3. Architecture

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            • Many great architectures were built during the Renaissance. Building these times development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
            1. Brunelleschi

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               • Brunelleschi learned math for building and ancient Greece ruins. He was famous of his building works and fantastic architecture design.
         4. Science

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            • After the spread of Humanism, sciencentest became more and more popular because they would question the world and reaserch about it.  
            1. Medicine

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               • Medicine are important to people's health. Scientist worked hard to reaserch medicine to help people. 
               1. Vesalius

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                  • A scientist and studied about the anatomy. The best achievement was that he discovered lots of medicines.
            2. Copernicus

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               • Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician and astronomer. He brought forward the idea that the Earth orbits the sun.
            3. Leonardo da Vinci

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               • He's a genius who knows lots of things. Da Vinci was a painter, engineer, musician, astronomer and mathematicians etc. He is a important person of the growth of Renaissance.
            4. Galileo

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               • Galileo Galilei, an Italian mathematician. astronomer, physicist, and engineer, philosopher. He played a major role in the scientific revolution. 
         5. literature

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            • Same as art, writings are more popular and more style.
            1. Shakespeare

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               • A poet and writes play too. Especially his plays, they were world-famous and still popular now days.  
      2. Patrons

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         • Partons are important for a culture to growth, especially to Art and Music. 
         1. Medici Family

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            • During this period, the wealthy families showed that they are powerful by supporting arts  
      3. Printing

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         • After the printing skill became popular, more and more people could learn to read.
         1. Gutenberg

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            • He made printing more easier and improved the printing speed. By 
            1. Famous Printed Bible

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               • After the improve of printing skill. books were printed out more than writing because that makes it more popular.
   2. Politics

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      • In Italy city states, wealthy family controls the whole state. For example, the Medici Family.
      1. Machiavelli

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         • Machiavelli wrote a book names "The prince". In the book, it showed that how governments really work.
2. Ancient Greece and Rome

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   • Lots of Renaissance's culture used knowledge from Greece and Rome. For example. the idea of Humanism.
3. Power of the Church and Kings Challenged

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   • King Henry broke out from the catholic church, and had tension between the pope.
4. Rebirth of Classical Ideas

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   • Renaissance is like a rebirth of Classical ideas. For example, art works are changes of classical style.
   1. Non Religious Themes

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      • Non religious theme had become very common after the changes of Renaissance.