Renaissance is one of the important movements or events in the world history. It is said that the beginning of Renaissance movement marked the end of medieval period of history in Europe and the modern era of European history ushered in.
The
Renaissance movement originated in Italy, a southern European country in
fourteenth century. Gradually, the Renaissance spread to other parts of Europe
during subsequent centuries i. e. fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.
The Renaissance
brought revolutionary changes in the areas of politics (central political
institutions), education, arts, music, science, architecture, etc.
The features
of Renaissance can be summed up as the Revival of Ancient Learning, Rejection
of the Ideas of Middle Ages, Emphasis on Humanism, Sense of Curiosity and
Spirit of Inquiry, Original Thinking, Transition of Europe from Medieval to
Modern Age and A Gradual Movement.
The
Renaissance resulted into the revival and re-study of the ancient knowledge of
Greeks and Romans in different areas.
Before
Renaissance, during Middle Ages the religion was given more importance, now the
reason, intellectual freedom and greater interest of the society and one's
responsibility towards the society became the main focus.
At the centre
of the Renaissance movement was the human being rather religion, as was the
case in Middle Ages. During Renaissance human tastes and interests played
important role in the development of various arts and literature.
Earlier people
used to accept the traditions, customs and various principles existing in
society in other different areas including the nature around them as a matter
of faith. The Renaissance movement taught them to question it and if they could
get appropriate and satisfactory answers then only to accept it. Now people
were interested in knowing the causes (scientific) behind many events.
The
Renaissance led to the original thinking. It means that the scholars started
thinking clearly, logically, rationally and scientifically. The principles of
logic came to be applied for studying various areas or branches of knowledge
and arriving at conclusions in a systematic way.
The
Renaissance brought an end to the medieval age and caused the beginning of the
modern age. The modernisation was reflected in the political and economic life,
literature and different forms of Arts.
The
Renaissance was the slow and steady movement. It started around fourteenth
century and was going on till sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It
originated in Italy and gradually spread to other parts of Europe.
The names of some of these great
personalities are as following:
Giotto (Painter- Italy), Fabriano
(Painter-Italy), Masaccio (Painter-Italy), Fra Angelico (Painter-Italy), Sandro
Botticelli (Painter-Italy), Leonardo da Vinci (Painter, Musician, Philosopher,
Writer-Italy), Raphael (Painter-Italy), Michelangelo (Painter, Architect,
Sculptor and Poet-Italy), Brunelleschi (Architect-Italy), Alberti
(ArchitectItaly), Palladio (Architect-Italy), Rembrandt (Painter-the
Netherlands), El Graco (Painter-Spain), Donatello (Sculptor-Italy), Roger Bacon
(ScienceExperimental Science-Britain), Copernicus (ScienceAstronomer-Poland),
Kepler (Science-AstronomerGermany), Vesalius (Science-Anotomy-Belgium), Galileo
(Science-Astronomy-Italy), Newton (Scirnce-Physics-Britain), Dante
(Literarure-Italy), Petratch (Literarure-Italy), Boccaccio (LiteratureItaly),
Machiavelli (Literature-Polirical Science-Italy),
Thomas More (Literature-Britain),
Shakespeare (Literature-Britain), Rabelais (Literature-France), Michel de
Montaigne (Literature-France), Migul de Cervantes (Literature-Spain), Lope de
Vega (Literature-Spain), Luis de Camoes (LiteraturePortugal), Martin Luther
(Literature-Germany), Desiderius Erasmus (Literature-the Netherlands).
(ArchitectItaly), Palladio (Architect-Italy),
Rembrandt (Painter-the Netherlands), El Graco (Painter-Spain), Donatello
(Sculptor-Italy), Roger Bacon (ScienceExperimental Science-Britain), Copernicus
(ScienceAstronomer-Poland), Kepler (Science-AstronomerGermany), Vesalius
(Science-Anotomy-Belgium), Galileo (Science-Astronomy-Italy), Newton
(Scirnce-Physics-Britain), Dante (Literarure-Italy), Petratch (Literarure-Italy),
Boccaccio (LiteratureItaly), Machiavelli (Literature-Polirical Science-Italy),
Thomas More (Literature-Britain),
Shakespeare (Literature-Britain), Rabelais (Literature-France), Michel de
Montaigne (Literature-France), Migul de Cervantes (Literature-Spain), Lope de
Vega (Literature-Spain), Luis de Camoes (LiteraturePortugal), Martin Luther
(Literature-Germany), Desiderius Erasmus (Literature-the Netherlands).
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