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THE
RENAISSANCE
The word "Renaissance" comes from a French
word meaning "rebirth". The Renaissance is a
rebirth or revival of learning after the middle
ages. It lasted about two hundred years and
was inspired by classical Age Greek and
Roman archaeological finds, statues,
literature etc.
The Renaissance era encompasses Western
music history from 1400 to the beginning of
the 1600’s. This period in time marked the
rebirth of humanism, and the revival of
cultural achievements for their own sake in all
forms of art, including music. The Italian
Renaissance of the 15th century, spread
through the rest of Europe, represented a
reconnection of the west with classical
antiquity, the absorption of knowledge,
particularly mathematics, from old Arabic
texts and the return of experimentalism. A
focus on the importance of living well in the
present began to develop.
The reason that the period is called by
this name is that, at that time, people
started taking an interest in the learning
of ancient times, in particular the learning
of ancient Greece and Roman culture and
was the start of the "modern age".
During the Renaissance, there were many
famous artists, many writers and many
philosophers. Many people studied
mathematics and different sciences. A
person who is clever at a great number of
things is sometimes called a
"Renaissance man".
Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2,
1519) was a painter, a scientist, a
musician and a philosopher and is one of
the most famous Renaissance men.
Born the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da
Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci
in the region of Florence. Leonardo was and is
renowned primarily as a painter. Among his
works, the Mona Lisa is most famous and most
parodied portrait and The Last Supper the
most reproduced religious painting of all time.
Much of his earlier working life was spent in
the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan.
Leonardo is revered for his technological
ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a
tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator,
the double hull and outlined a rudimentary
theory of plate tectonics.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6
March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly
known as Michelangelo, was an Italian
Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect,
poet, and engineer.
Two of his best-known works, the Pietà
and David, were sculpted before he
turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of
painting, Michelangelo also created two of
the most influential works in fresco in the
history of Western art: the scenes from
Genesis on the ceiling and The Last
Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine
Chapel in Rome. As an architect,
Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist
style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he
succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the
Younger as the architect of Saint Peter's
Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the
plan, the western end being finished to
Michelangelo's design, the dome being
completed after his death with some
modification.
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8
January 1642), commonly known as
Galileo, was an Italian physicist,
mathematician, astronomer and
philosopher who played a major role in
the scientific revolution.
His achievements include improvements
to the telescope and consequent
astronomical observations, and support
for Copernicanism. Galileo has been
called the "father of modern observational
astronomy", the "father of modern
physics", the "father of science", and "the
Father of Modern Science".
By Ben Nolan