THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | By: DENYS HAY | | | 5/13/2009 | | European History to the 1500 THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE IN ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND By: DENYS HAY Professor of Medieval History University of Edinburgh The Italian Renaissance took place in Europe around 1600 AD between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. The word renaissance (Rinascimento in Italian) means
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| Renaissance Humanism | Humanism is the term generally applied to the predominant social philosophy and intellectual and literary currents of the period from 1400 to 1650. The return to favor of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism‚ the appreciation of worldly pleasures‚ and above all intensified the assertion of personal independence and individual expression. Zeal for the classics was a result as well as a cause of the growing secular view of life. Expansion of trade
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Roles of Individuals and Societies The early twentieth century marked a period of rapid industrial and technological change in a society which began to redefine the roles of the individual and society. Max Weber and Sigmund Freud were two revolutionary thinkers of the time who recognized the importance of this relationship and tried to determine whether the power balance between society and the individual was tilted in one particular direction or the other. A world becoming an increasingly complex
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Renaissance period was considered a revival time in Europe with a rise in Classical learning and values. The scholars and thinkers consider it to be a new birthing of Classical learning and wisdom after a long period of cultural standstill. At the beginning of the Renaissance‚ ideas were expressed by the logical movement called humanism. The movement involved the failures in the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire to provide a stable and uniting structure for the society of spiritual
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Essay on Humanism The Renaissance is the label we put upon the emergence of a new perspective and set of ideals in Europe. This does not mean that it was sudden‚ neat and clean. It was gradual‚ inconsistent‚ and variable from place to place. The Renaissance had its origins in Italy because a powerful merchant class arose in its cities that replaced the landed aristocracy and clergy as the leaders of society. This new class‚ along with many aristocrats and clergy‚ embraced humanist
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From the Medieval times and into the High Renaissance period‚ art went through a long progressive transformation. As art progressed over time‚ it reflected the transformation of societal and cultural values that went along with it. One of the major transformations that can be seen is the social status and perception of the Artist‚ going from mere craftsmen to artistic genius. Evidently‚ this is shown in Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists where he goes into various in-depth descriptions on the
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Humanism and philosophy: a variety of ethical theory and practice that emphasizes reason‚ scientific inquiry‚ and human fulfillment in the natural world and often rejects the importance of belief in God (Dictionary.com‚ 2017). From this definition the values of the individual and realistic reason can be seen. These two factors are the biggest influences on the Humanistic movement in the Italian Renaissance. Humanism can be simply described as an intellectual movement but to leave it at that would
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The Italian Renaissance was a time when people prospered‚ in which artists‚ Inventors‚ and scientists founded the concepts that helped create the modern world as we know it. Although‚ behind the great minds of the Renaissance were powerful families‚ in Florence‚ and Rome. One family helped fuel the Renaissance with their power and wealth‚ and another corrupt and power hungry. The Medici’s were one of the most powerful and wealthiest family in Florence due to the Medici Bank. They would lend money
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During the Renaissance‚ religion and humanism shaped the content and qualities of the art produced in Florence and the surrounding areas. Humanism was the idea that human beings have greater importance than divine beings such as God. Prior to the Renaissance‚ art was mainly concerned with religious themes. Renaissance artists used pencil‚ oil‚ and stone to express their ideas of religion‚ gratitude‚ and perfection. Perspective was not widely used‚ and realism was still not common. Artists frequently
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Jacob Seifert AP Euro 9 September 2012 The Italian renaissance‚ the first of two renaissances‚ brought in new ideas to the western world along with the commonly thought of art. The ideas are presented in the art and it’s often from the artists who were leading the charge in the new ways of thinking. Humanism and Secularism were both heavily present in the art of Michelangelo‚ Masaccio‚ Raphael‚ Botticelli‚ and Brunelleschi. Their art was reflective of the influx of new thinkers and the decline
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