Renaissance

• Features of Renaissance art:

  1. Perspective: The painting in Source 2 uses perspective, so things in the background are smaller and the flooring becomes diminutive in the distance. This makes the painting more realistic.
  2. sfumato blending and smudging of colours to make the skin of a person appear soft in painting.
  3. Anatomy: The artist of Source 2 is familiar with anatomy as the proportions and faces of the figures in the painting look a lot more realistic than the figures in Source 1.
• First area of learning: Science

  Change: Circulation of the blood — William Harvey discovered that blood is pumped around the body by the heart instead of being used up by the organs.

  Second area of learning: Literature

  Change: Vernacular — writers in the Renaissance, such as William Shakespeare, started to write in the language of the common people instead of writing in Latin.
• Leonardo da Vinci has many achievements. He was a skill painter many of his paintings are known worldwide e.g. the Mona Lisa and the last supper. Leonardo da Vinci has many achievements. Millions of people go and see the Monalisa in the Louvre in France. He invented aeroplanes,cars,tanks and submarines centuries before they were invented. He also wrote in mirror writing so that no one can read it and it won’t be copied. He is considered the “renaissance man“.
• Patrons were important because they commissioned artists to produce art work for them,this provided them with an income. They were so important as they helped Renaissance art flourish - De Medici of Florence.
• renaissnace architecture features - round arches and Domes
• Effects of the development of the printing press

  • More people learned to read and write
  • It led to peop.e challenging the ideas of the church as the Catholic Churches area over learning declined. (Fiction - source of entertainment)
• Andreas Vesalius studied anatomy and discerned bodies and made a book called on the fabric of the human body,which gave insightful information on the human bones,muscles,veins and organs.
• Renaissance cause:

  • The ruins of the Roman Empire: Italy was the centre of the ancient Roman Empire. This meant that the remains of Roman buildings and art were everywhere. As Italian towns and cities expanded, they dug up Roman statues.All these things inspired Italians and many of them wanted to copy the achievements oftheir ancestors.
• The second course of the renaissance was the fall of Constantinople in 1453

  • It was the capital of the eastern Roman Empire and it was captured by the Ottoman Turks. Resulted in Greek scholars fleeing to Italy They brought manuscripts, books and new ideas
• The third course was that Italy was located beside the Mediterranean Sea this was a major source of food and trade/It made Italy a gateway for ideas and trade It increased the wealth of people.
• The competition between Italian state was also another cause of the renaissance. Italy was made up of independent states, competition arose between themselves and they wanted to show their wealth and power so they hired artist to produce are an architect to design buildings.
• First of all the printing press helped with health medical advancements as people learn how to blood pumped around the body and a human bones muscles veins and organs were understood through Andrea’s Vesaluis’ Book on the fabric of the human body. This book widely spread as a result of the printing press as the books were accessible and cheaper.
• The English writer Shakespeare had his work influenced by the printing press, as his plays and poems were produced in large amounts and they were distributed widely
• The printing press contributed to historical change because the printing press revolutionised education It made books cheaper and accessible so it let to more people learning how to read and write . Prior to the Renaissance a lot of people were illiterate people relied solely on the Catholic Church for information and ideas, the printing press change the history of education of people.
• 3. The printing press also led to change in religion as Martin Luthers theses were mass-produced and his idea of religious outlook widely spread