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The origins of Renaissance art can be traced to Italy in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
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through its definitive break with Roman Catholicism, arose to take its place on the Christian map.
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later in the 14th century, the proto Renaissance was stifled by plague and the war, and its influences did not emerge again until the first years of the next century.
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Much of the art made in the early Renaissance was commissioned by the wealthy merchant families of Florence.
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During the Middle Ages, individuals were expected to devote their lives to the church above all else.
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The printing press allowed for information to be distributed to a wide audience.
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the Protestant Reformation arose within Roman Catholicism; there both its positive accomplishments and its negative effects had their roots.
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Many Renaissance works were painted as altarpieces for incorporation into rituals associated with Catholic Mass and donated by patrons who sponsored the Mass itself.
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Women were generally subordinated to male authority and their property taken into men's hands. both gendered theory and its practical instrument.
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Rome had displaced Florence as the principal center of Renaissance art, reaching a high point under the powerful and ambitious Pope Leo X.
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Van Eyck was one of the most important artists of the Northern Renaissance.
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Gun powder was invented during this time perod
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the clock was invented in this time period too
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silk was another thing that was invented in this time period that changed the middle ages.
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Luther and the other reformers became the first to skillfully use the power of the printing press to give their ideas a wide audience.
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Northern Europe’s new religious and political freedoms came at a great cost, with decades of rebellions, wars and bloody persecutions.
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This was a time of great strides in science and mathematics.
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The discoveries of astronomers and explorers were redrawing the cosmos in a way that was profoundly disturbing.
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These years produced a gallery of authors of genius, some of whom have never been surpassed, and conferred on scores of lesser talents the enviable ability to write with fluency.
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The Catholic Church was slow to respond systematically to the theological and publicity innovations of Luther and the other reformers.
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Science and art were very closely related during this time.
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In this period England’s population doubled prices rocketed, rents followed, and old social loyalties dissolved.
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The poplar panel shows evidence of warping and was stabilized in 1951 with the addition of an oak frame and in 1970 with four vertical braces.
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Around 1450, German citizen Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, and with it came an increasingly informed society.
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The most traumatic era in the entire history of Roman Catholicism, some have argued, was the period from the middle of the 14th century to the middle of the 16th.
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The Tudors needed to create a class of educated diplomats, statesmen, and officials and to dignify their court by making it a fount of cultural as well as political patronage.
