The Italian Renaissance

The Renaissance was a name given to period of history. Renaissance means a ‘rebirth’. The Renaissance movement that originated in Italy during the end of the middle Ages, explains "Medieval and Modern History." It served as a rebirth in education, art, and technology .this created a new culture. One must wonder why Italy was the perfect setting for a Renaissance to create a new era of time. Italy was in a great location on the map and easy sea trade routes. In the city-states area had easy water and land access, were prime spots located in Europe, and the people would benefited from a system of roads that remained from the Roman Empire army. Italian city-states conducted their own trade like silk, ships and iron work, collected their own taxes,
Their money in turn help to transform the city they lived in the most beautiful and architectural for its era of this time. Many artists were invited and paid to come to create many lavish buildings and paint art in them, some art would take years to complete. Artists had many factors on the renaissance in Europe because many talented artist lived in Italy at the time such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. There for was an unspoken rivalry between the artists to create the best art or to come up with new creative ideas. Art was a major thing that was developed during the time of the renaissance. Towns competed with each other making their town or city the most talked about or lavish, Italy was massively populated country. Due to the amount of people and the size of the towns there was bigger need for everything such as trade. With the amount of money being brought in from the trade it made many unknown towns more advanced in this era. The attitude towards women, their rights and how they were treated underwent many changes during the renaissance. Women were thought of as property, owned first by their fathers and then their husbands. However during medieval times women were given more rights and enjoyed their freedoms. They could own land and had many of the same rights that men had. This time the church had made major changes, but many women took many steps back for their struggles
Race was not talked about by the color of your skin but more of gender and religious group they were associated with at the time. Slavery was part of the renaissance you can see painting with high ranking white females with their black slave child. Black servants were much sought after, it was consider exotic to have a slave. In Italy slaves could work almost any job they seek after. To own a slave was more for the rich however some blacks were free as well to do as they wish. It wasn’t the same way blacks were treated in America when they were slaves. The slaves were free to participate in music, art and partake in festivals. A famous author Sally McKee wrote, according to Genoa: