... Petrarca (or Petrarch) endorsing the idea of a reawakening of the literature and learning of ancient Greece and Rome. The word 'renaissance' means rebirth. Seen as a bridge between the Middle Ages and the modern era, The Renaissance also marked a cognitive shift from a religious perspective to a more intellectual and social focus. Classical texts previously lost to European scholars became readily available ... humanist artist as evidenced by the following. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Fillipepi better known as Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), was an Italian Renaissance artist and paint...

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... Renaissance painting. It is famous for her haunting, inexplicable smile. The Renaissance/Early Modern Period is distinguished from other periods in European history almost entirely in intellectual or cultural terms. The period is more or less considered as playing out what had been set up in the later Middle Ages. European historians overwhelmingly tend to place Europe's major break with its medieval and ... ultimately took many forms, it was expressed earliest by the intellectual movement called Humanism. Of all the practices of Renaissance Europe, nothing is used to distinguish the Ren...

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... artists, and intellectuals. There were four social classes in the Renaissance. The lowest class were the workers. Workers had no job protection. The middle class consisted of shopkeepers and professionals. Then the merchants. The merchants were below the highest class people. They were often craftsmen; blacksmiths, ... language used in the Renaissance was Latin. The written language was vernacular or the common language. People started to speak Italian by the early 1700's. ("Italy." Britannica School. Encyclopedia Britannica.) The Renaissance was known for many advances in politics and m...

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... under the Pope, ruling out of Rome, although he had no real political control over the divided Italy. During the mid-1300's and early 1400's, many large Italian cities came under the control of one family, such as the Visconti and later the Sforza families in Milan. ... that every person has respect and worth and therefore should command the respect of every other person. The humanistic movement began during the early Italian Renaissance with the rediscovery of the writings of classical Greeks and Romans, which were not only models of literary style, but considered ... . Perhaps the mos...

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... with years and years of admiration of wonderful artwork, sculptures, and marvelous structures. "In order for Western Civilization to recover from the great decline, crisis and near collapse during the middle ages, it had to re-affirm its parentage in Hellenic Civilization during the era of Renaissance: politically, economicaly, religiously, socially, intellectually, artistically and militarily" The renaissance was all about learning, expanding ... these words: "God, by sudden conversion, subdued and brought my mind to a teachable frame, which was more hardend in such matters than might ...

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