Middle Ages were a period of war and
hard labor throughout Europe
The fall of Rome that happened
then all throughout the Europe music and
art had been at a standstill
however in the early 14th century a new
movement of art music and science focusing
on the humanistic elements of life is
called the Renaissance
the Renaissance helped
spark the advancement of human and
cultural evolution for all of mankind
the Renaissance began in Florence Italy
between the years 1350 and 1400
Italian artists studied the works of the ancient
Greeks and had realized how different
their cultures were the Greeks had
focused on a style of art called
humanism which was vastly different from
all the hard times that war caused
throughout Europe for centuries they
adopted this humanistic style to their
artworks and it changed how people in
Italy and eventually Europe would see
the world
one of the first humanists of the
Renaissance was Francisco Petrasche
a scholar and poet who was often called
the father of humanism his ideas and
poetry became an inspiration for other
writers and poets during the Renaissance
one of the first artists of the
Renaissance was Giotto D' Bondon he
was the first artist to break away from
the middle-age painting styles and
started painting how people and objects
actually looked in nature his style of
painting gave art a new sense of realism
this advancement of art was also applied
to science and music as well
there were many advancements in the area
of science during the Renaissance in
1440 Germany a man named Johannes
Gutenberg created the printing press
this reduced the time it would take to
create books that would take weeks or
months to copy and distribute to just a
few days by 1500 every major city
throughout Europe had a printing press
the scientist Galileo created the
scientific method he used this process
to collect data and analyze his
experiments to help prove or disprove
his theories the microscope telescope
and reading glasses were also invented
during this time by refining glass to
create lenses this helped us discover
and explore the Stars and discover other
planets and outer space alchemy was also
refined during this era although they
weren't able to turn lead into gold they
were able to help advance modern-day
chemistry Sir Isaac Newton had
discovered gravity by Apple falling on
his head and the clock was invented
allowing us to better measure time
artists during the Renaissance could
almost double as scientists by combining
realism and art we were able to see
things differently
Donatello D Niccolo was an Italian
sculptor who created statues out of
stone bronze wood clay and wax and
helped develop new types of architecture
Michelangelo D Ludovico was a famous
sculptor painter and architect who
famously painted the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel Raphael Sanzio was a
famous painter who was widely known for
his style of art called printmaking this
style of art engraves works on two other
canvases such as paper or wood the most
famous artists of the Renaissance was
Leonardo da Vinci da Vinci was an artist
inventor and worked in other subjects
such as science works by da Vinci
include his drawings of the human body
and the painting of the Last Supper he
also had drawings of scientific
inventions and other great ideas that
were radical for his time
da Vinci helped influence many great
advancements in art and science that are
still used today
music of the Middle Ages were mainly
folk songs music for the royal court or
plainchant heard in church by monks a
small advancement in music was made with
Gregorian chant before the Renaissance
the next advancement before the
Renaissance in music was made by a monk
named Guido Alvarezo where he created
the line and eventually solfege that
helped evolve music and allowed it to be
written down
however the Renaissance changed
everything a style of music called
polyphony making multiple sounds at once
was becoming more common in music during
the Renaissance
an innovative composer of the
Renaissance was Josquin de Prez and he
was one of the first famous Renaissance
composers he changed hymns by using
polyphony to add multiple voice parts
which was later applied to other vocal
works in England the poet and writer
William Shakespeare while not a musician
created different theatre genres that
helped expand the imagination towards
the end of the Renaissance a new style
of theatre called opera became very
popular opera combined Theatre with
singing and the greatest innovator of
early opera was Claudio Monteverdi
who is able to make stories come to life
through music and theater
the Renaissance was seen as a cultural
rebirth in European history what made
this so unique was that music art and
science were not viewed as separate
subjects but as one common subject it is
because of the Renaissance that we also
have so many advancements in modern
technology it is safe to say that the
Renaissance was seen as the turning
point in developing modern civilization
