HISTORICAL EVENTS

The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution

The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution

Introduction

The Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution are three of the most important events in the history. All the three have changed the way people think and have helped in the development of the world in a positive way. In this paper these three events are discussed.

The Renaissance and the Circumstances That Led To It

Renaissance is the name given to a broad cultural movement that occurred in Western Europe in the centuries XV and XVI. Its leading exponents are in the arts field, although there was a renewal of the sciences, both natural and human. Italy was the birthplace of this movement and development. The Renaissance is the result of the dissemination of ideas of humanism, which led to a new conception of man (Brotton, 2006). The name "Renaissance" was used because it incorporated the elements of classical culture. The term symbolizes the revival of knowledge and progress after centuries of domination of one type of mentality dogmatic established in Europe during the Middle Ages. This new phase proposed a new way of seeing the world and human beings, interest in the arts, the politics and science, replacing the theocentrism medieval certain anthropocentrism.

In cultural terms, it means a revival of classical ideals in literature, philosophy, science, and particularly in painting and architecture. Takes its origin, the Renaissance in Italy, where there were already well developed urban communities and a self-conscious commercial bourgeoisie. The art-historical epoch of the Renaissance is subdivided into early renaissance (from 1420), Renaissance (from 1500) and Late Renaissance (from 1520/30). Main clients and patrons of Renaissance art were the papal church, and various royal courts (especially that of the Medicis in Florence). In the literature are the works of Dante Alighieri (La Divina Commedia, 1307-21), Francesco Petrarch (Canzoniere, 1470) and Giovanni Boccaccio (Decameron, 1353) as groundbreaking (Brotton, 2006).

Among the most important works of fine art including sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti David (1501-04) and his frescoes in the Sistine Chapel (1508-12), the Mona Lisa (1503-06) the Italian painter, sculptor, architect and scientist Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael's Sistine Madonna (c. 1513). Examples of the rich Renaissance architecture, offering St. Peter's in Rome (designed by Donato Bramante, as a construction manager and later Raphael and Michelangelo were involved) and the Venetian church of San Giorgio Maggiore (1566-79) by Andrea Palladio.

How the Renaissance Changed Europe

Renaissance brands the time span of European annals at the close of the middle Ages and the increase of the Modern world. It comprises a heritage rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries. Early Renaissance, mostly in Italy, connections the art time span throughout the fifteenth 100 years, between the middle Ages and the High Renaissance in Italy. It is usually renowned that Renaissance matured in Northern Europe subsequent, in 16th century. During this creative time span two districts of Western Europe were especially active: Flanders and Italy. Most of the Early Renaissance works in to the ...