Category: Renaissance

Renaissance or rebirth is an artistic movement that started in Italy during the late 14th century and expanded to the early 17th century. It resulted in many impacts, but the greatest impact of the Renaissance is technological advancements. Advancements such as the steam engine, the printing press, telescope, mechanical cloth, rocket launching tubes, magnetic compass,…

What made the people of the Renaissance? When you hear the term ‘Renaissance Man’, the first name that usually appears in a person’s mind is Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo is the epitome of humanistic ideals during the Renaissance. He is not only a prominent painter, but also an engineer, inventor, scientist, and philosopher. Leonardo is…

Birth of Venus is one of the most famous paintings around the world. Botticelli was born in 1444 in Florence, Italy, and was an early Renaissance artist (Kleiner 239-240). Even though he was a goldsmith at 14, he preferred to paint so he became an apprentice under Fra Filippo Lippi, and later to Antonio del…

Though only nine works of art are signed to be his, the most famous of which he is even secretly drawn into, Jan van Eyck captures the hearts of his audiences with his creation of superb pieces of art that inspire all. Jan van Eyck, a prominent artist in the Renaissance, altered the course of…

In the early modern period, poets William Shakespeare and Richard Barnfield utilized erotic and homoerotic language to subvert English Petrarchan conventions and explore the transformative effects of love and desire on the mind and body. Coppelia Kahn confirms as such by suggesting that by means of echoing Ovids tales of Metamorphoses, Shakespeares poetry captures the…

1. Nature and character of the Renaissance era. Nature Renaissance which means rebirth in the French language took place in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It started in Italy whereby statues, buildings, and works of art from the Roman Empire survived. It started in Italian cities such as Florence. The Renaissance promoted the…

Leonardo da Vinci Influenced by the Renaissance Born in the Renaissance period, which spanned the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, Leonardo da Vinci became one of the smartest men ever to live (Renaissance). He was trained through primary education and went on to many accomplishments with his knowledge of math, science, and art. The Renaissance…

The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, is one of the most important and influential landmarks in Florence, being the third-largest church in the world (after St. Peter’s in Rome and St. Paul’s in London) its influence on not only Italian architecture but western Europe cannot be denied. Taking nearly…

The Renaissance had an influence on many famous works of art and literature. Modernity and the Renaissance caused a rebirth and increase of individualism alongside an intellectual movement. Two literature pieces that were influenced include the work of Niccolò Machiavellis The Prince and Martin Luthers, Address to The Nobility of the German Nation; as well…

Architecture and art have embraced the application of proportions within the natural world for years. These elements marked the Italian Renaissance period (1400-1600) that represented the classical culture in architecture. During this time, the measurements of musical intervals and the human body expressed harmony within the architectural models. Andrea Palladio, a Renaissance architect (1508-1580), pioneered…