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A timeline of the Renaissance and the impact on Europe.
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The Papacy, having been located in Avignon since 1305, returns to Rome, bringing with it the prestige and wealth necessary to rebuild the city.
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When Giovanni De Medici Moves To Florence it was very important because the Medici family was very upper class and the banking family. Florence was not the Trading or banking city-state and that is why they moved there.
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During the late 1400 year the Renaissance idea Spread Northward to other Countries. This helped fix many other countries after they were also hit with the bubonic plague.
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Ghiberti is commissioned and takes 28 years to sculpt the bronze doors of the Florentine church. The doors remain one of the most valued treasures of the Renaissance
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Brunelleschi made a vanishing point to a canvas and discovered a method for calculating depth. He did an experiment using mirrors to sketch the Florence baptistry in a perfect perspective. The first known painting to show true linear perspective is Masaccio's “The Holy Trinity”.
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Fosari assumes the position of doge and attempts to usurp great political power, to the distaste of the Great Council, Venice's oligarchic ruling body, which asserts its power over the doge and torments him until his resignation.
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Michelangelo structured a balance, harmony, and the ideal form statue. David showcases these artistic sensibilities through his lifelike, asymmetrical posture—known as contrapposto or “counterpose”—and his realistic and highly detailed anatomy. This was one of Michelangelo's best pieces of work.
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Cosimo de Medici becomes head of the bank after his father dies, using his economic power to consolidate political power. Within five years he runs the city without question. This was a very big deal and the Medic family was the best banking family ever in this time period
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Joan of Arc's first military victory and was the turning point in the 100 years war between England and France. This was an important time during history.
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When Francesco Sforza Seizes Control Of Milan it was a big deal. He was very important, but getting control was a little much for him as well.
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The center of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks, provoking an exodus of Greek people and works of art and literature into the Italian city-states.
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Gutenberg is credited with the invention of the printing press in Europe, and ushers in the age of printed books, making literature more accessible to all Europeans.
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Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press so it would be easier and more efficient to make books or newspapers. AS a result of making the first copy of the bible many people were able to get a copy and the church could have them as well. The printing press, helped publish books more quickly and less expensively.
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The Arras Witch Trials was located in France. The accused people were brutally tortured and promised their lives, then burned at the stake
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After Cosimo's death in 1464, his son Piero rules until his death in 1469, when power falls into the hands of Lorenzo, who rules until 1491, raising Florence to its greatest heights of the Renaissance. This was exciting towards the city-state of Florence.
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Sixtus IV becomes pope, undertaking many successful projects in Rome, but disgracing the Church through his corruption and practice of nepotism.
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The Spanish Inquisition was used for both political and religious reasons. Following the Crusades and the Reconquest of Spain by the Christian Spaniards, the leaders of Spain needed a way to unify the country into a strong nation. This Inquisition helped build a strong nation.
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Pico's philosophy often conflicts with that of the Catholic Church and he is declared a heretic. He is saved from demise by the intervention of Lorenzo de Medici.
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Painting Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (which is related to the Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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Queen Elizabeth was one of Henery VIII, three kids. She was the most loyal and more liked children that were queen. She did the most and did the best when she was queen. It was very important for her to become queen.
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Alexander VI is widely known as a corrupt and manipulative pope, scheming for his family's benefit. Many claims that the Papacy reaches its greatest moral decline of the Renaissance during his pontificate. This is very important as he is now the new Pope.
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Columbuses' first stop on his voyage was the Bahamas. He landed they're on October 12, 1492. Christopher Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan Taino people called Guanahani, which is now the Bahamas.
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A sailor that was on the Pinta ship yelled, “Tierra! Tierra!” This stated that he saw land. This could have got the sailor fired and had a yearly pension because Columbus did not see it himself. When Columbus came up he could not believe that he was seeing America and that he was one of the first people to discover it as well.
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In an attempt to weaken his enemy, the King of Naples, Ludovico invites the French to invade Italy, granting them free passage through Milan. Though this invasion fails, the French return in 1499, turning on Ludovico and taking Milan, and opening an era of foreign competition for Italian land.
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It was painted as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The School of Athens the second painting to be finished there, after La Disputa, on the opposite wall. The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance."T This is a very high honor for him.
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The Sicilian Chapel was very important in Italy. When Michelangelo painted it, it became an important part of town.
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The book, The Prince was often considered the most influential political book of all time, The Prince outlines the argument that it is better for a ruler to be feared than loved. It was a very influential book and many people loved it when it came out till today.
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This book was written in Latin by Thomas More. It is a narrative that pictures a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. A 'Utopia"' refers to a perfect society or world.
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The Mona Lisa was a famous painting that was known for in Italy. It was made by Leonardo De Vince.
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Martin Luther challenges the traditional practices of the church and Pope Leo X. Luther beilved that a persons wealth should not impact there status in the afterlife.
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The Protestant Reformation begun by Martin Luther, as it was a series of events that led a new form of Christianity. He wanted and did start Protestant Reformation and that helped make a justification by faith.
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Leonardo, perhaps the most remarkable individual of the Renaissance, dies in France, having established himself as a painter, sculptor, engineer, and scientist.
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Pope Clement VI comes to power in difficult times, following Pope Leo X. He soon proves himself an incompetent politician, and his poor decisions lead to the sack of Rome.
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The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe from ca. 1524 to 1648, following the onset of the Protestant Reformation in Western and Northern Europe. There very many different religions in this time period and they were all fightings with one and another. This war finished the fighting between the different religions.
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The sack of Rome symbolizes the downfall of Renaissance Italy, much of which is subjugated to Imperial-Spanish rule by the settlement of Bologna in 1530.
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Ivan was the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death. His long reign saw the conquest of the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Siberia, Ivan managed countless changes in the progression from a medieval state to an empire and emerging regional power, and became the first ruler to be crowned as Tsar of All Russia. He was known to be a very smart ruler but had a very bad mental illness and man attitude.
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Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style. He wrote ma y famous pieces in the renaissance ime period that people will never forget.
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Edward was born on October 12, 1537. This was Henry's son and that meant that when he died that Edward would become King.
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The chateaux was a castle that was invented by the French people. King Francis I and his nobles wanted and needed a castle so they built the first one for them. This was then the biggest building in France.
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After Henry VIII died his son Edward became kIng. He was only 9 years old when he became king. This was a big deal for a little kid but also a lot of work.
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Henry VIII had a very long life and annoyed lo0ts of people. He got divorced many times and made three children which would soon become kings and queens.
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This was a temporary settlement for people within the Roman Empire because of the religious conflict that was coming in the Reformation. Princes had to make the desition if whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands
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Mary was Henry VIII's daughter and she was not known to be the best queen of them all. He hurt people and was known for "Bloody Mary".
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Queen Elizabeth was the 5th and last monarch in the Tudor family. King Henry VIII was her father. She is remembered for establishing the English Protestant church and the defeat of the Spanish Armada.
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Gilles Coppens de Diest at Antwerp published 53 maps written by Abraham Ortelius. The title was Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, considered the "first modern atlas".
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This was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots, during the French Wars of Religion. The Massacre is unknown to exactly how many deaths it caused, but the guess is anywhere between 5,000 and 30,000. This was a terrible decrease in building and the population
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The Last supper was a very important painting in the Itain renaissance that was painted by Leonardo De Vince. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of John 13:21 when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him.
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This was issued by King Henry the IV of France, it gave non-Catholics in France civil rights. This marked the end of the religious wars in France during the second half of the 16th century
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Martin Luther did not agree with the catholic church rules and the way that it ran. So he made a new religion called Lutheranism, that did not speak in Latin and gave people the bible as the only form as religious truth. This made it much easier for people to understand.
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The renaissance ended in the 1600s as the city-states in Italy were fixed from the bubonic plague. This was a very successful time as the old times were once bad they regained themselves and made them all better again.
