renaissance.?

Question

who what when where why.

Answer 1

A fashion statement.

The party line of the "Enlightenment" philosophers (like Voltaire and Hume) casts the period beginning in 1600 as the "Renaissance" (meaning "re-birth"), but this is as inappropriate as calling the period that preceeded it the "Dark Ages."

The end of Roman hegemony in Europe and the Mediterranian was not a "fall" despite what Edward Gibbons chose to call it. It did not plunge Europe into a backward era. Instead, discovery and technology continued and actually accelerated, unencumbered from the bureacracy of Empire. By the 13th century, European technology was far ahead of the rest of the world.

Likewise, the learning of Greece and Rome as not "lost" - the scholastics continued to study and debate it. Of course, philosophy and technology advanced along an exponential curve: slowly at first and then with increasing pace. Along this curve, science was born. China, India, Arabia all had alchemy, mathematics, medicine, but *science* only arose once, in Europe. A "rediscovery" of classical learning is not what made Europe seem to leap forward in the early modern era: it was, rather, the culmination of centuries of work during the Middle Ages.

Therefore, I have heard it said (and liked the summation so much I quoted it at the beginning), the sudden interest in Classical Greek and Roman statuary in the early 15th century in northern Italy that is often called "The Renaissance" did not signal some sea-change in thinking, it was really little more than a fashion statement on the part of rich and bored nobility.

Answer 2

Who: The French
What: The Renaissance
When: During the Renaissance
Where: In France
Why: For the French Toast.

Answer 3

About 1450, European scholars became more interested in studying the world around them. Their art became more true to life. They began to explore new lands. The new age in Europe was eventually called “the Renaissance.” Renaissance is a French word that means “rebirth.” Historians consider the Renaissance to be the beginning of modern history.
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Answer 4

The word Renaissance (rebirth in French), was first used to define the historical age in Italy – and Europe - that followed the Middle Ages, spanning (+-) the 14th through the 16th century.

Basically, an exit of the dark ages and a movement towards reclaiming the classical values of ancient Greece and Rome, philosophy, art, cultural refinements and scientific curiosity.

The principal features were the revival of learning based on classical sources and advancements of science.

The age is usually divided into phases: the first phase contains artists Cimabue, Giotto and Arnolfo di Cambio; the second phase contains Masaccio, Brunelleschi and Donatello; the third centers on Leonardo da Vinci, culminating with Michelangelo. Also defined by the desire to study and imitate nature.

Instead of drawing flat shapes as was done in the middle ages, perspective and depth was reclaimed from ancient Rome and Greece, and the ability to draw humans, objects and nature as they appear to the eye, with volume, shading and depth.

Answer 5

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