Causes Of The Renaissance

The Renaissance is a very well known ordeal, often considered to be the birth of the western world, which is why it is called the Renaissance, Renaissance meaning rebirth in french. It began in Europe in places such as Italy before spreading up into northern Europe. However what lead to the Renaissance isn't just everybody waking up one day and finding themselves feeling extraordinarily creative. It began after the Black Death, when work was easier to find and people had more riches to spread around to a smaller population. And with this they had more money to be patrons to the arts. The Renaissance has produced many people with common household names, well known for their turtle counterparts, such as Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo,
1562 and is now located at Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain. This painting depicts skeletons murdering hundreds of people, with no regard to who they are, rich, poor, children, the old, even emaciated animals can be spotted lying dead throughout the painting. This painting is a tribute, one could say, to the Black Death. The Black Death is a well known plague that struck Europe hard in 1347 to about 1353. While it had previously struck countries before it, in Europe it killed around 20 million people, about ⅓ of the population. This suffering of people in the Triumph of Death is similar and a parallel to the victims of the plague. Though unlike this painting, the plague wasn't necessarily a physical embodiment of death taking the form of a skeleton attacking people with weapons while some sit back tooting away on horns. The skeletons in this painting however, do indeed represent death, showing the bigger moral message. This message being, whether you're a king of peasant, a child or elder, you can escape death. If it misses once itś still going to keep trying. Your status, age, or gender can protect you from the icy cold grip of death, especially if it is a physical form in the shape of a
The painting shows a group of 6 blind men literally leading one another, holding on to each other by their canes. The one who was leading the group is seen falling into a creek, with the other men destined to follow. The premise of this painting is to illustrate a line in the bible, Matthew 15:14: Änd if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit.” Rather familiar since the painting does portray them ¨falling into a pit.¨ However in this painting the blind men are shown more as victims than fools that are bringing themselves down. How were they to know better? It isn't their fault they can see where they are heading. Some however choose to interpret it as to not blindly follow church leaders, since the line is indeed from the bible and there is a church in the background. Yet despite the meaning people have said Bruegel must have researched his work because ¨Ophthalmologists (eye doctors) are said to be able to recognize five different eye diseases in this painting.¨ This painting was later re-done” by Pieter Bruegel the Younger, yet the original is more well known in