Inventions During The Renaissance

The Renaissance was a time period that began in the fourteen hundreds up to the seventeen hundreds following the Middle Ages. This new period regenerated interests in the classical past, as well as gave rebirth to a new creative era. A new era that brought forth the ideas of humanism and Neo-Platonism, as well as new techniques in the fields of art and literature. However, the question is, how did all these new ideas and inventions spread throughout the world? First off, unlike the middle Ages, which was the Age of Faith, where the point of human existence was to find salvation, the Renaissance was secular and man-centered . Starting in Italian city-states that had prospered in the Middle Ages through trade, with the Renaissance began the

These techniques expanded what had once been the flat lifeless sculptures into more humanistic structures that could now portray emotion. However these new techniques were not limited to sculptures alone, they also effectively expanded to the fields of painting and architecture. Artist again found a resurged fascination for the human body and naturalism, as well as, nature’s beauty with the discovery of three-dimensional art and the laws of linear perspective. Artist began to again explore the human body, using the nude body as one of the main focuses of the time in resemblance to that of the Greeks. Also during this time period came the invention of oil paint, which gave artists the ability to create shadows and to blend colors, artists such as Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael, and Leonardo Da Vinci, whose works were the best of its time, who until this day have not been able to be replaced as

People began to wonder what was on the other side of the Atlantic and pacific oceans. Soon discovering new worlds that expanded trade of not only resources but of also arts, ideas, inventions and clothes, new resources as well as materials that had never been used on the European continent, or vise versa in the Asian continent or what later was known as the Americas. Also with the discovery of new lands across oceans, astronomers and mathematicians also discovered a whole new universe in the sky. They discovered that the Earth was indeed not the center of the universe but that instead it was the sun and that with the earth many other planets revolved around