2007-05-13 14:00:57 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Difficult to choose :
- The scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Vesalius.
- The rise to power of the Medici's in Florence in 1434.
- The revival of ideas of Greek and Roman thinkers by political philosophers such as Niccolò Machiavelli and Thomas More.
- The introduction of perspective in art by Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) and Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472).
- The arrival of Michelangelo's "David" at the Piazza della Signoria in Florence in 1504.
- Luther nailing his "95 Theses" to the Wittenberg church door in October 1517, and Erasmus publishing "The Praise of Folly" in 1511 and his "Polyglot Bible" in 1522.
2007-05-13 14:50:04 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The beginning. Without it, the Italian Renaissance would never have begun.
2007-05-13 14:49:22 · answer #2 · answered by Nihl_of_Brae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋