After the Black Death, a plague that killed about 50% of Europe, and ended in Italy, in about 1350, the Renaissance started to begin. The Renaissance is called rebirth because it flourished in the arts. Also, it was the shift from religious to secular. It was also the isolation to Great Sharing of Ideas. Another idea it lead to was that their curiosity overcame their fear and people started to venture out and explore new places. We now move on to one of the famous people who lived during the Renaissance and who wrote in the vernacular, Leonardo da Vinci.Art before Vinci was very boring and not to broad. It made Vinci and his art look bad, so he and another group of artists and came up wit ...view middle of the document...
Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452 and was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist, probably the supreme example of Renaissance genius. Born in Vinci, Tuscany, he was the illegitimate son of a Florentine notary and a peasant girl. His precocious artistic talent brought him to Verrocchio's workshop in 1466, where he met Botticelli and Ghirlandaio. The culmination of his art in this first period in Florence is seen in the magnificent, unfinished Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi), with its characteristic dramatic movement and chiaroscuro. In c.1482 Leonardo went to the court of Ludovico Sforza in Milan and there composed most of his Trattato della pittura and the notebooks that demonstrate his versa tile genius.The Renaissance was a period of European history, considered by modern scholars as that between 1300 and 1600. Many dramatic changes happened during the Renaissance. The Renaissance was a period of new inventions and beliefs.The Renaissance was drastically different from the Middle Ages. During the Middle Ages the church held most of the power and its economy were agriculturally based. Exploration and learning was almost put to a stop. During the Renaissance, society was transformed into a society increasingly dominated by central political institutions with an urban commercial attitude. Also, people's curiosity overcame their fear and many people started to venture out and explore.Bibliography:- Discovering Our Past: Medieval and Early Modern Times
