Topic 4 Renassaince and Humanism
WHO WERE THE HUMANISTS AND WHAT DID THEY PROPOSE?
ITALIAN HUMANISTS
THE CREATIVE TALENT OF THE RENAISSANCE
DISSEMINATION OF HUMANISM IN EUROPE
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At that time, the "humanists" were called teachers of language, literature, history and art, and "Humanities" to the studies of those subjects. Now, became a way of thinking and living. Humanism surpassed the academic world and that revolved around a main idea: IN THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE IS MAN, image of God, privileged creature, more worthy than all things in Land.
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), tradujo del griego lenguaje de algunos libros de Homero y Eurípides. RENACIMIENTO Y HUMANISMO Foto tomada de: Los escritores de la pre-renacimiento Imagen tomada de: Historia.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473- 1543): Polish scientist who developed the heliocenter Theory
François Rabelais (1494-1553), who composed one of the first novels (Gargantua and Pantagruel).
Humanism remains in force in any doctrine whose fundamental principle is respect the human being and the consciousness of his dignity. The human being and must be the
center of all concerns. Humanism seeks to awaken the consciousness of powerful, because health, employment, education and housing problems in various regions of the planet could be solved with very little of the wealth of the First World.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti: architect, sculptor and painter of the Italian Renaissance he created a sculpture in called marble "David". He is a exaltation of the human being perfection.
3.Johannes Gutenberg: a German blacksmith with care he saw a press come out to extract the juice from the grapes indelible marks on fabrics. He used this principle to build a printing press. Using woodcut plates (high and low reliefs carved in wood), he managed to print his drawings on paper. In 1449 he perfected his invention and with the help of lead types he printed a copy of the Bible.
- Leonardo Da Vinci: is considered one of the
the greatest geniuses of all time. He was dedicated a lot
time and drawings to the knowledge of the
human anatomy and proposed in universal
canon of body proportions, captured
in a representative drawing "The Vitruvian Man" (1490)
(Image taken from: Medical X press
