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1500 BCE
Education (Daily Life)
During the early Renaissance, education was mainly based around reading, writing, and math. Education was usually only for middle-upper class boys, but sometimes talented poor boys would able to attend. As the boys grew older, they would possibly get a job such as apprentices for merchants or traders while the others would continue their education.
Notes: Life During the Renaissance -
1500 BCE
Cosimo de' Medici (Patrons of the Arts)
He was the leader of the banking Medici family. One of the first to embrace artistic patronage. That was his way to guarantee his legacy to honor the church.
http://study.com/academy/lesson/patrons-of-renaissance-art-roles-influence-famous-works.html -
1500 BCE
Florence (Patrons of the Arts)
Around the 15th century, the town of Florence become members of the Medici family. The Medici family ruled as princes even though the city was in name as republic.
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/slideshows/patrons-and-artists-in-late-15th-century-florence.html -
1500 BCE
High Renaissance Artist - Raphael (Renaissance Artist)
Raphael was a high Renaissance artist. He was born on April 6, 1483. He was admired for his numerous paintings of Madonnas. He had achieved the idea of what beauty was and nobody else was able to imitate it. He died April 6, 1520.
Notes: Artistic Movements of the Renaissance
http://www.biography.com/people/raphael-41051 -
1500 BCE
Northern Artistic Renaissance - Albrecht Durer (Renaissance Artist)
Albrecht Durer was born May 21, 1471. He studied a lot of Italian works and artists. He had eventually learned how to use perspective in his paintings and like Leonardo, he studied the human form to be able to understand how it worked. Albrecht died April 6, 1528.
Notes: Artistic Movements of the Renaissance -
1450 BCE
Fashion & Clothing (Daily Life)
Around the 1450s was when clothing and fashion started to become a more popular thing. Men would normally wear tights or stockings with a shirt and coat over top, along with hat. Women would wear long, high-waisted dresses with big sleeves, along with gold jewelry.
Notes: Life During the Renaissance
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1400 BCE
Music & Dance (Daily Life)
During the Renaissance time, music and dance was a popular thing. Choirs, which were usually in the churches, also were very popular. Polyphony, a new form of music was used. Madrigals, which were smaller groups of people also used the form of Polyphony. They usually sung poetry or romantic songs.
Notes: Life During the Renaissance -
1400 BCE
Northern Artistic Renaissance - Jan Van Eyck (Renaissance Artist)
The date of Jan Van Eyck's birth is unknown. He was one of the first artists to use and perfect oil painting techniques. Jan Van Eyck used linseed and but oils mixed with resin. He gave his paintings more depth, which would make them look more real. He worry less about the perspective and more about the detail in the paintings subject.
Notes: Artistic Movements of the Renaissance
http://www.jan-van-eyck.org/biography.html -
1400 BCE
High Renaissance Artist - Leonardo (Renaissance Artist)
Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452. He was known was the master of realistic paintings. Leonardo had dissected human bodies to get a better understanding of how they worked. He was advanced in a lot of different things and he set the new beauty standard.
Notes: Artistic Movements of the Renaissance -
1400 BCE
Earliest Renaissance Literature (Literary Works)
The earliest Renaissance literature had started being used around the 14th century. Some examples of Italian Renaissance writers are Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli and Ariosto. The influence of the Renaissance had spread to different countries around Europe throughout the 17th century.
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1400 BCE
Decline in the Catholic Church (The Catholic Church)
In the early 14th century, the papal court was disgraced when the French king forced them into Avignon. That movement had resulted in making the highest leaders to appear as pawns of France. Instead of the church providing spiritual leadership & direction for the quick change in society & class, it'd became preoccupied with the administration staff. Problems with the church had grown worse during the Great Schism.
all-about-renaissance-faires.com /renaissance/catholic_church_in_the_renaissance/ -
1400 BCE
European Literature (Literary Works)
European literature was controlled by intellectual and cultural tendencies that were associated with the Renaissance. The literature was written around the general movements of the Renaissance time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_literature -
1400 BCE
Renaissance Literature (Literary Works)
Renaissance literature is the works in which are characterized by a likelihood toward humanist or nonreligious topics. During that time period, it made a dramatic shift away from strict bonding.
https://www.reference.com/art-literature/characteristics-renaissance-literature-745be8612256ac47# -
1300 BCE
Alchemy (Scientific Discovery)
Alchemy is the studies of transmutation of materials through unclear processes. Sometimes it's defined as an early form of chemistry. One of the main aims of this job was finding a method in which gold could be made with other substances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_in_the_Renaissance -
400 BCE
Religious Growth (The Catholic Church)
In the Catholic Church religion began to change. People started to call on sinners to repent. Movements, along with different beliefs created a threat to traditional religion. Some popular heretical beliefs movements had started growing and also continued to challenge the papal authority.
http://all-about-renaissance-faires.com/renaissance/catholic_church_in_the_renaissance/ -
400
Founding of the Church (The Catholic Church)
From 33 AD to the 4th century, Christianity religion was prohibited. The ban went across the Roman Empire in 337 AD when Constantine II & his brother were in power. By the time of 394 AD, it became the official language of Rome. A year later, the Roman Empire divided to two parts, Eastern Rome & Western Rome. Christianity spread West.
http://www.skwirk.com/p-c_s-56_u-422_t-1108_c-4278/the-catholic-church-in-europe/qld/the-catholic-church-in-europe/renaissance-and-reformation/the-reformation -
Jan 1, 1300
Mechanical Clock (Inventions)
The invention of a mechanical clock had replaced the old water clocks. Before the clock was invented and made, the water clock was a tank that when the water rose, that indicated what time of the day it was. The balance wheel on a watch or a pendulum on a grandfather clock is what makes the clock a mechanical clock.
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Feb 23, 1450
Astronomy (Scientific Discoveries)
In the late Middle Ages, astronomy was based around the geocentric model. Centuries after the fall of Rome, astronomy had been weakened. A lot of astronomy knowledge had been lost by the ancient Greeks.
http://net.lib.byu.edu/scm/astronomy/
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Jan 1, 1456
Printing Press (Inventions)
Sometime during the middle 13th century, paper money and playing cards had spread from China to the West. They were then block-printed, which means that characters or pictures were carved into a block of wood. After they were carved, they were inked and lastly they were transferred to paper. This process was expensive and time-consuming because each picture, word or phrase was printed on a different block.
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Period: Feb 10, 1483 to Feb 18, 1546
Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a man who was known to have forever changed Christianity after he began the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century. Martin was born on November 10, 1483. He had survived a violent storm and then later vowed to become a monk. Martin died February 18, 1546.
Notes: Martin Luther and Reformation -
Jan 1, 1503
Mona Lisa (Renaissance Arts)
Leonardo da Vinci created the Mona Lisa painting. It is believed to be painted between the years of 1503 and 1506. Leonardo da Vinci is also believed to have worked on this painting as late as 1517.
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Jan 3, 1521
Luther's Excommunication (Martin Luther)
In January 3, 1521, Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. The trouble that occurred before Luther's excommunication was when he decided to send his 95 Theses, which were protesting a majority of the Churches practices and doctrines. On June 15, 1520, Pope Leo X had issued the bull Exsurge Domine, which had stated that 41 of Luther's postings of the 95 Theses were heresy.
https://blog.oup.com/2012/01/luther/ -
Jan 1, 1534
Luther's Bible (Martin Luther)
Martin Luther recreated the Bible and wrote it in German so everyone was able to read it by themselves. He believed that the Bible was the only source of truth. Luther also believed that salvation only would come through faith in Christ.
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Medicine (Scientific Discoveries)
The development of modern neurology had began around the 16th century. During anatomy, the brain and other organs were described by Vesalius. He had little knowledge about the brains function.
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Gunpowder (Inventions)
Gunpowder was invented by the Chinese around the time period of 850. It was mostly used for fireworks in the 1200s. The was gunpowder spread to Europe is unknown. During the Battle of Crecy in 1246 A.D., gunpowder was thought to be first used. After it was invented, it changed how war was played.
http://codyreynolds82.weebly.com/gunpowder.html
