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Jun 15, 1440
Printing Press (Inventions One)
This was the most important invention of the time period it had a big impact on the way things are today. It was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, and by the 1500s there were so many printing presses throughout Europe, it allowed information to be distributed by a wide range of people. It helped spread other new scientific discoveries and it also helped scientist share their works with one another so they could learn more.
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Sep 23, 1456
Leonardo da Vinci (Renaissance Artist)
Leonardo was a painter, and a sculptor. His most famous work includes the Mona Lisa, Leonard started working on Mona Lisa in 1503, it had become the most famous painting in world at one point. The women in the painting is thought to be Lisa del Giocondo, who is the wife of a wealthy Florentine silk merchant. The painting actual Italian name is “La Gioconda” which helps the theory but that doesn’t mean it’s correct. https://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396 -
Sep 5, 1486
Birth of Venus: (Renaissance Art)
Sandro Botticelli created the Birth of Venus and the myths of Venus being born by rising above the sea, seems to be true through the painting. Venus, who is the goddess of love, is born out of a seashell and arriving on the shore and she is already a grown women.
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Jan 1, 1492
The New World (Scientific Discoveries Three)
Christopher Columbus discovered the New World and land in 1492 and Ferdinand Magellan was the first to travel the globe (successfully) in the early 1500s and that’s when we learned that the earth wasn’t flat. https://www.livescience.com/55230-renaissance.html -
Period: 1500 to
Daily Life/Culture of the Renaissance (Two)
In the early part of the Renaissance, education was based on reading, writing and math and they were all centered around their religion. That’s not it though, education was mostly for the middle and upper class boys, but sometimes if you were poor, but talented you’d get a spot in the school. Girls weren’t offered school, it wasn’t common for them to go it was usually just the men.
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Period: 1500 to
Daily Life/Culture of the Renaissance
Your wardrobe showed everyone else if you had power. Peasants would only have one or two outfits, clothes would be dirty and very rugged. The upper class had many outfits, and they were always clean. The wealthy men would wear a combination of tights or stockings in many different colors, with a shirt and a doublet, which is kind of like a coat/cardigan with a hat. Women wore long, high waisted dressed that had big, long and poofy sleeves with a bunch of gold (expensive) jewelry.
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Period: Sep 5, 1500 to
Daily Life/Culture of the Renaissance (one)
The man, (father/husband) was in charge of everything. The wife had no share or control over their money. The father was even in charge of his children until the father died or he had signed their own rights over to them. Where now, and in America, when children are eighteen, sometimes parents don’t have rights to their children.
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Apr 15, 1503
Mona Lisa: (Renaissance Artist)
Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, and a sculptor. His most famous work includes the Mona Lisa, Leonardo started working on Mona Lisa in 1503, it had become the most famous painting in world at one point. The women in the painting is thought to be Lisa del Giocondo, who is the wife of a wealthy Florentine silk merchant. The painting actual Italian name is “La Gioconda” which helps the theory but that doesn’t mean it’s correct. https://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396 -
Oct 31, 1517
Nailing of the 95 Theses (Martin Luther & the Protestant Reformation one)
The 95 Theses nailed on the wall of Wittenberg. Martin Luther wrote his 95 theses in protest against the selling of indulgences. A little piece of paper that people would buy for themselves or a love one that would help them skip purgatory after they died, and they would go to Heaven quicker. Luther believed that you didn’t need an indulgence to promise your way into heaven. The only way to do so would be to repent for your sins every day, rather than just having a piece of paper do it for you. -
Aug 15, 1518
Assumption of the Virgin: (Renaissance Art)
Titian was the painter of Assumption of the Virgin and the painting is now located on the high altar in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. The painting is celebrated every year on August 15 and shows respect for the rising of Mary on her way up to heaven, before her body decayed. As she is rising to the heavens, beautiful looking children, also known as cherubim, raise her to the heavens as she is floating on a cloud.https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-renaissance-paintings -
Jun 8, 1519
Leipzig debate (Martin Luther & the Protestant Reformation three)
Leipzig Debate is the event where Martin Luther and Johann Eck, had their differences on the indulgences, and did a private debate on them. Luther had to publicly announce his commitment to the orthodoxy and he only did that because he was only debating papal authority because Johann had pressured him too, not because Luther just wanted too.
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Aug 28, 1522
Martin Luther & the Protestant Reformation (two)
While Martin Luther is at the Wartburg castle, he works on the translation of the Bible, to German. After doing that, the New Testament translation is published
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Nov 30, 1541
The Last Judgment: (Renaissance Art)
Michelangelo Buonarroti is the creator of The Last Judgement, it is one of the most powerful works in fresco. The Last Judgment is painted on the wall of Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. It shows a future return of Jesus to earth, and the judgment by God of all humanity. As you can see in the picture Jesus is in the middle, and is surrounded by saints, while at the bottom the Resurrection of the Dead and Descent of the Damned into Hell.
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Feb 18, 1564
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni: (Renaissance Artist)
Michelangelo was a painter, poet, and a sculptor and was known as one of the most famous artist of the Italian Renaissance. Some of his most famous work includes statues called “David” and “Pieta” and the ceiling painting that is in Rome’s Sistine Chapel, called “Last Judgement”.
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Feb 28, 1581
Clock (Inventions two)
Something that has a big impact on everyone around the world, that was discovered/made during the Renaissance, was the Clock, the first mechanical clock was invented during the earlier part of the Renaissance, improvements were made by Galileo who invented the pendulum in 1581, and it was easier for people to tell the time, and later in the Renaissance the pocket watch was made so that people could tell the time wherever they went. http://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance_science.php -
Scientific Method: (Scientific Discoveries One)
The Scientific Method was developed during the Renaissance. Galileo used controlled experiments and analyzed data to prove, or disprove his theories. The process was later improved by scientists such as Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton
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Hamlet: (Literary works one)
William Shakespeare, who wrote, and made, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet and many others. Hamlet is one of William Shakespeare’s famous plays, all of his literary works are famous, but this one is something else. Hamlet is about a young man who found out that his father, King Hamlet, was murdered by his brother Claudius, who is now the King. Prince Hamlet was seeking revenge on Claudius. Hamlet isn’t just a book either, it is also a play. http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/hamlet/summary/ -
Telescope (inventions three)
Eyeglasses, microscope, and telescope were discovered and made during the Renaissance as well, and it was all due to making improvements on lenses. As they were improving them, the scientist realized that they should make eyeglasses, so people could read the printing press and see clearly.
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Astronomy: (Scientific Discoveries Two)
Astronomy, most of the scientific discoveries that were made in the Renaissances were around or in the area of Astronomy, many great scientist such as Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler all had a major part in discovering things about the Astronomy. http://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance_science.php -
On My First Son: (Literary Works two)
Ben Jonson was much like Shakespeare, he wrote books and plays, too. ‘On My First Son’ was a famous poem of his, it was a heartbreaking story. It was based around Ben Jonson’s son, who had died in 1603 the poem dealt with all the loss, grief and sadness that Jonson was in. Though his son had passed away in 1603, the poem wasn't published until 1616, in Ben Jonson's, epigram which is a book full of short poems.
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Paradise Lost: (Literary Work Three)
John Milton, wrote a poem called Paradise Lost. Paradise Lost is about Adam and Eve, how they were created and how they got lost in the Garden of Eden. It is the same story you could find in the beginning pages of Genesis, but John Milton took it upon himself to make it into a more detailed poem. The poem also includes where Satan has come from, who was originally called Lucifer, but caused a war with God.
https://www.shmoop.com/english-renaissance-literature/milton-author.html
