文档介绍：Renaissance
overview
origins
characteristics
The three geniuses of Renaissance
Overview
14th–17th centuries
cultural movement
European
Beginning in Italy
literature, philosophy
art, music, politics,
science, religion,
Origins
13th century
Italy
Florence
People lost their faith in the church and began to put more focus on human beings and material possessions
Social and political structures in Italy
The unique political structures of late Middle Ages Italy have led some to theorize that its unusual social climate allowed the emergence of a rare cultural efflorescence. Italy did not exist as a political entity in the early modern period. Instead, it was divided into smaller city states and territories
Beginning of the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of life's stage and infused thought and art with humanistic values. In time the stimulating ideas current in Italy spread to other areas bined with indigenous developments to produce a French Renaissance, an English Renaissance, and so on.
Why the Renaissance emerged in Italy ?
It’s prosperous trade and production of handicraft .
It’s rich variety of urban social life coinciding with the emergence of more cities .
The wealth of culture passed down from the artistic and architectural heritage of Rome and the fourth was the use of Latin as mon language in the Italian society .
Cultural conditions in Florence
It has long been a matter of debate why the Renaissance began in Florence, and not elsewhere in Italy. Scholars have noted several features unique to Florentine cultural life which may have caused such a cultural movement.
Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence and patron of arts
Characteristics
Humanism
Art
Science
Why the Renaissance began in Florence
Many have emphasized the role played by the Medici, a banking family and later ducal ruling house, in patronizing and stimulating the arts.
Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492) was the catalyst for an enorm