The period of European history
known as the Renaissance was a period of great social and cultural change
in europe in general terms the rebirth span from the 14th to the 16th centuries
spreading throughout Europe from its place of birth in Italy, which
origin of the renaissance be Italian is because Italy is fundamental for its
historical past that is now wanted recover in boosting in addition there is another
relevant factor and that is that in italy there was never a total and strong rootedness of what
medieval as it happened in the rest of Europe precisely because one was
latent the classic spirit. The crusades had intensified the
commercial traffic between east and the West enriching especially
The Italian cities of Venice Genoa treads and floats within its walls a
group of bankers, merchants industrialists and artisans got the
security and freedom for deployment of your personal abilities
these bourgeois learned through the personal and collective experience that the
success of their economic enterprises it depended on the ability to calculate and
anticipate the circumstances through timely decisions your
individual position in society not depended on the divine will but on
themselves, why was there a renaissance in Europe? the average age of the story
European was an era characterized by conformism the people who
they showed creativity or they moved away from the established methods of thinking and
behave themselves were often punished or marginalized from society the
high middle age was a time of fear in Europe it was thought that the world was
formed only by three continents and that the earth and not the sun was considered
the center of the solar system many of these medieval beliefs
they turned out to be false during rebirth, until the Renaissance the
most Europeans followed the teachings of Catholicism because they had
little exposure to any form of education beyond this one,
science was not a good concept understood and very little of what the
church taught people about life was challenged those who spoke in
against the church they were accused of heresy and labeled as heretics the
heretics were often punished extremely severe as
tortured or burned at the stake in front of the townspeople, the
rebirth was a period in which I was leaving behind the middle age to give
beginning to what was known then as the modern era without a doubt this was a change
very deep and complex that transcended all the orders of life so that
it meant much more than a movement artistic or cultural as sometimes
believe. This was not a sudden break but a
gradual step of a feudal society based on agricultural activity to a
mercantile society supported the value of the nation also meant the revival of the
scientific research the heyday of the universities and on the ground
scientist tried to delve into the applications and fundamentals of
science, the chairs of surgery and anatomy at the universities were
developed by doctors that are they were directing more and more for the
practical way like miguel servet besides the separation of the concepts
of art and artist regarding crafts and craftsman
the rebirth is situated chronologically in the middle or end
of the 15th century in coincidence with the Turkish conquest of Constantinople in
1453 for that time there were other two very important milestones the invention
of the printing press by guttenberg and the development of the heliocentric theory of
Copernicus that explained more effective astronomical phenomena
observed, they are also produced extraordinary inventions in the field of
navigation driven by the discovery of america appear in the
astrolabe and the nocturne the letter nautical or portulano inventions that
facilitated navigation and the desire to adventure and conquest of new
territories these were propitiating elements of
a scientific and social revolution of a magnitude unthinkable until then. Humanism is the term that best
defines rebirth for the first time the figure of man as a creator
occupies a central place after years and years of teocentrism that is to say of god as
source of all creation other theories they proposed that the government was a
earthly institution but of origin divine then new thinkers arise
that renew the political theory demanding the separation of powers
government is an earthly institution of human invention that has nothing to
see with the divinity, one of the first theoreticians in affirming this theory was
dante that in his work of monarchy defends the civil authority on the
ecclesiastical so many thinkers they also propose this division,
the political theory of this period arrives to its apogee with nicolás Machiavelli
thinker who would subsequently influence the thought of the baroque like
secretary of the Florentine chancellery fulfills numerous missions to the service
of the government of your city is a excellent observer and in his writings
reflects the exciting political world of his time. factors that promote
economically reborn the commercial revival revived the
cultural exchange between East and the west becoming the principal
factor of cultural rebirth in the social plane prior to the Renaissance the
people lived in fiefs and each of these had everything within its properties
what I needed to be self-sufficient now this kind of life is changed and
they began to develop properly what cities and towns are or
populations little by little the domain of the
community to the merchants and Manufacturers of all types of goods
the urbanization conditions had generated a new culture the
secularization of society was the process by which the sectors
civilians of society were winning greater political and economic influence
especially cultural with respect to power held until then by the
on the intellectual level the resumption of studies of works
Graeco-Roman classics was great importance to characterize the type of
art this was possible thanks to the Medieval monasteries that preserved
in his bookstores many of these works protected from destruction by
barbarian invasions of the period rationalism and scientism the
Renaissance people were convinced that everything can be explained through the
reason and science why they bloomed the sciences and scientists stood out
as nicolás copérnico galileo galilei alonso de santa cruz miguel servet and the
own leonardo da vinci in the arts the Renaissance art had
the following influences of the works of art Greek and Roman antiquity
the architects used columns and classic pediments while the
sculptors and painters were interested for representing the nakedness of man and
the woman there was the discovery of the third
dimension ie from the perspective the interest in observation and
representation of nature introduction of new topics as
portraits and mythological themes, the most important exponents were artists
like botticelli tiziano rafael or da vinci and writers like alighieri
Petrarch, Bocachio, Shakespeare Rebelais
Y Garcilaso de la Vega
in the sculpture here an effort is made important in developing the vision
classic, what was most accomplished were the portraits, busts, mythological themes and
religious and once again the study of anatomy led to the great sculptors
to perform perfect nudes were very realistic and human despite that in
many times they were goddesses or gods that some of the works were portrayed
most important of the Renaissance were there was more than one renaissance in europe
many parts of europe experienced a period of rebirth between
end of the middle ages and the beginning of the modern age considered as a whole these
movements constitute a period global renaissance in europe
rebirths of different areas were however, very different from each other
all happened at exactly the same time and in the same way.