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The Renaissance Period
Perhaps one of the most famous Renaissance paintings is the Mona Lisa, painted by Italian artist, Leonardo da Vinci. It is a typical Renaissance painting. ...
The Renaissance/Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. The period is more or less considered as playing out what had been set up in the later Middle Ages. ...
The Renaissance is defined as the revival or rebirth of the arts; the period in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages; conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. ...
The Renaissance is also characterized by a surge of interest in classical learning and values. The Renaissance witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the substitution of the Copernican for the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the decline of the feudal system and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application of significant innovations as paper, printing, the mariners compass, and gunpowder. To the scholars and thinkers of the day, however, it was primarily a time of the revival of classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural decline and stagnation. ... These three interests found representation in the three dominant strands of Renaissance philosophy: (1) political theory, (2) humanism and (3) the philosophy of nature.
There were several phases or periods of the Renaissance. The period from 1420 to 1500 is most often referred to as the Early Renaissance whereas the term High Renaissance is used to describe anything that happened from 1500 through 1530--involving pure, classical balanced harmony. ... Beyond that, a period known as Mannerism came into play--although still technically part of the Renaissance, Mannerism marked a time when elegance was key.
Generally speaking--the main elements of the Renaissance were:
Oil paint was used for the first time--prior to this point, egg tempera was the medium of choice. ...
While the essence of the Renaissance ultimately took many forms, it was expressed earliest by the intellectual movement called Humanism. Of all the practices of Renaissance Europe, nothing is used to distinguish the Renaissance from the Middle Ages more than humanism as both a program and a philosophy. The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the dignity of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of theology and logic to specifically human studies.
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