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History - The Renaissance
Painting (Art) Italy
Leonardo Da Vinci
Donatello
Michaelangelo
Raphael
Philosophy
Search for 'lost' books and texts from antiquity
Importance of kindness
Used to ensure good leadership in society
'On the nature of things" Epicurus
Successful societies + wise poeple = learned from anceint texts
At the centre of everything
Art + Architecture
Styles were rediscovered and changed
Rationality, order + harmony influenced new buildings + cities e.g. Venice, Rome
Cities should be beautiful
We are shaped by the building around us - it can make us happy
Art was invested in properly because it had a purpose - sell beauty, wisdom, kindness
Medici family, Florence, Italy dunded many Renaissance artists/architecture e.g. Michaelangelo
Artists made their work much more realistic by using new methods and techniques
Importance of being realistic (Titian, Donatello etc.)
Interest in techonology
Leonardo da Vinci designed technologically advanced machines
Education
Some univerities like the University of Padua in Italy, became more indeoendent from the chuch
Medical students could carry out dissections of human bodies even though the church did not like this
Scientific thinking
Scinetists like Nicholas Copernicus and Galileo used telescopes to find out more about the universe
Copernicus came to the conclusion that the Sun, not the Earth, was the centre of the solar system
Research in human body
Artists were able to draw incredibly accurate pictures of the human body
In England, William Harvey carried out medical experiments
Harvey realised that blood circulated aound the human body, pumped by the heart