Renaissance

Renaissance The Renaissance, or "rebirth" in italy began in the late 14th century and lasted until the early 16th century. Many acient ideas were rediscovered in areas such as philosophy, literature, and science. People became became increasinly aware of classical knowledge and therefore resolved to learn by direct observation and study of the natural world. As a result, religious themes became increasingly important to artists, and with the revived interest in ancient ideas came a new variety of subjects which came from Greek and Roman history and mythology. The examples provided by acient buildings and works of art also inspired the development of new techniques in art and the desire to re-create the forms and styles of art that had existed in the classical age. There were many artists in this time and the work they did was genius. Leonardo who is considered the ideal Renaissance thinker, engaged as he was in experiments of all kinds and having brought to his art a spirit of restless inquiry that sought to discover the laws governing diverse natural art, nature, natural, laws, ideal, became, artists, world, works, renaissance, phenomena, new, made, last, genius, forms, discover, direct, development, classical, chapel, came, beauty, work, word, very, variety, universal, translation, tomb, time, thinker, therefore, themes, tended