Learn About the Renaissance

The Renaissance emerged in northern Italy in the 1300’s. When not content with the abstract and highly subjective thinking of the Middle Ages, scholars turned for inspiration to the ancient Greeks and Romans with their love of earthly life.

Italian architects rediscovered ancient construction techniques and incorporated Greek and Roman columns, arches and domes into their public buildings. Instead of the flat, steep figures of the Middle Ages Renaissance artists’ portrayed rounded, flesh and blood people, people filled with emotions.

To depict the world they lived in realistically Renaissance artists developed linear perspective which creates on a flat surface the illusion of depth. Renaissance scholars explored their world through mathematics, science and engineering. Probably the most famous of the Renaissance times are Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.


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