Renaissance

                 Renaissance

1.Renaissance was the great cultural movement. It began in Italy and later spread all over Europe.

2.The changes that were brought by the Renaissance were gradual and hardly affected the people.

3.Renaissance influenced art, literature, education, and history.

4. The word "Renaissance" is derived from the Latin word "rinascere", which means the act of being reborn.

5. Renaissance represented a rebirth of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures.

6. The Renaissance marked the end of the Middle Ages. The concepts and ideas of the Middle Ages were abandoned by the leaders of the Renaissance.

7. Renaissance thinkers believed that people owed a responsibility to the society in which they lived. Society was not seen as an evil temptation but as a civilising agency.

8. The study of theology was replaced by the study of humanity during the Renaissance period.

9. A revolution took place in the field of art.

Medieval artists painted human figures that looked stiff and artificial, while Renaissance artists' paintings and sculptures were lifelike and focused upon the beauty of the human body.

10. The first Renaissance humanists, Petrarch and Boccaccio, recovered many ancient manuscripts during the 1300s. They studied and imitated the ancient writings. They gave much importance to style.

11. Petrarch, through his poetry, and Boccaccio, through his stories, tried to describe human feelings.

12. Italy was the pioneer in the field of art.

During the early 1300s, the Florentine painter Giotto became the first artist to portray nature realistically.

13.Art during the late 1400s and early 1500s was dominated by three great men: Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo da Vinci.

Renaissance art focused on realism.

14.Michelangelo's statue of Moses, his paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, Raphael's portraits of the Madonna, and Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper and Mona Lisa rank among the greatest achievements of Renaissance art.

15. During the 1400s, the Renaissance spread from Italy to the rest of Europe.

16. By the late 1400s, England was being united into a nation under the monarchs of the House of Tudors.

17. The Tudors, who ruled from 1485 to 1603, were the most important patrons of the Renaissance.

18. The first Tudor monarch, Henry VII, invited many Italian humanists to his court, and they influenced English scholars.

19. The study of ancient Greek and Roman literature became fashionable in England during this period.

20. Some of the other well-known British mariners were Sir John Hawkins, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleigh.

21. The new learning of the Renaissance inspired people to question old ideas. This resulted in the religious revolution in Europe, known as the Reformation.

22. Society during the Renaissance was chiefly distinguished into two classes—the very wealthy and the very poor.

23. The men of the Renaissance lived life to the fullest. They enjoyed several outdoor activities and sports.

24. Their favourite hobbies were hunting, shooting, and trapping. The poaching of deer was very common.

25. Theatre-going was another fashion of the Renaissance age.

26. Thus, the impact of the Renaissance has been remarkable among artists, sculptors, writers, and others.

27. Renaissance figures like Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci were remarkable during this time.

28.  In almost every sphere of life—intellectual, scientific, and artistic—the Renaissance was a period of tremendous achievement.

29. Thus, the motto of the Renaissance men was "to drink life to the lees."