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Where: Florence, Italy

Who: Medici Family

When: 14th to 17th century

The Spirit of

RENAISSANCE

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Where: Florence, ItalyWho: Medici FamilyWhen: 14th to 17th century

The Spirit of

RENAISSANCE

England: around 1520- Henry VIII
"rebirth"

Middle agesModern times

A new change in art, knowledge, and culture.
The "Revival of learning"

RENAISSANCE

Gutenberg Caxton

The printing press

01

The most important technical achievementIt transformed societyThe rapid spread of ideas concerning religion, history, science, poetry, art, and daily life

The printing press

The revival of learning

02

Enlightenment of the human mind
“Rebirth” after the "Dark Ages"

The revival of learning

The reformation

03

The creation of Protestantism
It meant the braking away from the Roman Catholic Church
Religious movement lead by Martin Luther

The reformation

The rice of humanist science

04

Man as the center of his own universe

knowledge resulting from experimentation and empirical observation
aspects of the human condition as the products of humans rather than of God
Science in its modern sense emerged

The scientific revolution

The defeat of the Spanish Armada

05

On August 8th, 1588, the Great Armada sent by King Philip II of Spain to conquer England was defeated in the English Channel

1588

The exploration of america

06

The whole colonial experience in the New World had a dramatic effect on the English language

the new world

william shakespeare

07

  • updating the simplistic, two-dimensional writing style of pre-Renaissance drama
  • exploring the complexity and humanity of every character
  • including themes like human agency, life's non-religious meanings and the true nature of man

Shakespeare embraced the Renaissance in the following ways

Italian philosopher, poet, writer and political thinker who authored “The Divine Comedy.”

Dante

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Mathematician and astronomer who made first modern scientific argument for the concept of a heliocentric solar system

Copernicus

Italian sculptor, painter and architect who carved “David” and painted The Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Michelangelo

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(1564-1642): Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer

Galileo

Renaissance Geniuses

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Scholar from Holland who defined the humanist movement in Northern Europe

Erasmus

Italian painter, architect, inventor and “Renaissance man” responsible for painting “The Mona Lisa”

Da Vinci

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England’s “national poet” and the most famous playwright of all time, celebrated for his sonnets and plays like “Romeo and Juliet.”

Shakespeare

Renaissance Geniuses

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