how did the middle ages lead to the reinassance?

Answer 1

Well, people who had money like the banks and the Catholic Popes became patrons of the arts and sciences ...during the 14th Century.

It started with one building in Florence, when one sculptor created a piece for the exterior of a new church. It was of St George, and was the forst work to show George as a thinking, human man, rather than just as a warrior...

Then the Medici family (most powerful banking family in Florence) started building new churches all over to please the church and buy their way in heaven... so of course they needed lots of artists... it went on from there...

you could find out a lot more by googling ....and by visiting Florence, Siena, and Verona ... and taking the tours...

look at my links below they will help, and if you go to Florence, make sure you stay at the Ostello D'Allo Goro ...

Answer 2

There was an economic boom in Europe in the centuries preceding the Renaissance,due to various advances in agriculture and manufacturing,especially in the 12th century.Many cities developed and some became very rich.The best example is Bruges in Belgium which is well preserved so you can see for yourself a piece of prosperous medieval Europe.Prosperity was certainly one of the factors but probably not the decisive one.What triggered the Renaissance were the archeological discoveries of Roman and Greek art in Italy.Influenced by these,the Catholic Church tried to educate people through beautiful images.Paintings were supposed to reveal the beauty of Creation and the promise of Paradise.Artists aquired a new social status .Ancient Greek and Roman philosophical and literary texts were also rediscovered and philology became a respected science.
To answer your question,I have to say I don't believe the middle ages lead to the renaissance because these were totally different phenomena.

Answer 3

Terms like "the middle ages" and "Renaissance" are a slippery slope. There were invented pretty recently. The Middle Ages are as we describe and use the term, suggests nothing happened and nothing changed. It simply is not so. Lots of things happened everywhere in the world. And one place, say parts of Italy we might describe as living in Renaissance style, but in another place; say England, the visual style we associate with the rebirth never showed up until the late 17th cen.

No one on the street in Verona in 1500 would have known what you were talking about. I think that you can begin to talk about the period following the supposed Middle Ages, when printing becomes fairly widespread and the intellectualsof Europe become known to one another by their books and by the availability of the authors of the Greek and Roman classics become available in a more modern Latin and finally in Greek. Their exchanges, in print and by letter, became the foundations of Humansim. These were the ideas that allowed the blooming of all the references to Classisism in the visual arts.