Question

Define'Renaissance'.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Renaissance means The Renaissance was the period in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries when there was a surge of interest in and production of art and literature. "Renaissance art" describes the style of art that came out of this period. ... In Old French renaissance means "rebirth."

Answer 2

Answer:

• The word Renaissance literally means 'rebirth'.

• It was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the fourteenth century and seventeenth century.

• The movement began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe.

• It aimed to revive classical Glory, learning and culture of ancient Greece and Rome.

• Art, articulture, literature, philosophy and science of this period were influenced by the Renaissance.

• The Renaissance thinkers were rationalists.

• They asked people to not blindly accept whatever the church told them.

• They questioned beliefs founded on blind faith and superstition.

• People were asked to judge and accept things in the light of reason.

• People began to observe, experiment and use their reasoning to arrive at conclusions.

• Human became the centre of study during the Renaissance.

• Secular themes and the depiction of the human form became the focus of paintings and sculptures.

• The true Spirit of the Renaissance represented by the sculptors, writers, painters and scientists of this period - Michelangelo Buonarroti, William Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton, to name a few