Question

Developments during Renaissance
Relation importance
Monalisa
2.
The Last Supper
3
Printing machine by Guttenberg
School of Athens
Galileo's Telescope
Depiction of man's
aesthetic sense​

Answer 1

The term 'Renaissance' is derived from old French word renaistre meaning 'to be born again'.

Renaissance in European history refers to the period of great social and cultural change that took place between the 14th and 17th centuries ago.

Causes of Renaissance

• the capture of constantinople
• decline of feudalism
• impact of crusades
• decline of church
• New trades routes
• spirit of enquiry
• progress in science
• invention of printing press

${ \rm{ \large{1. \: \: Arts}}}$

Monalisa and The last supper is a world famous painting painted by Leonardo da Vinci in the time of High Renaissance. This period was characterized by a rising interest in perspective and space which gave arts more realism.

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After the invention of printing press invented in Germany, by Gutenberg, books became available to more readers. In order to reach out to a lager readership. Writers started to translet Latin and Greek to vernucular languages.

During the middle ages, superstition, misery and prejudice were prevalent. The church controlled education. The knowledge imaprted by it was accepted, without questions the authority.

A number of scholars however started to discard the medieval beliefs and develop a spirit of enquiry among the people. They pleaded against the supremacy of church, which till then had played an important role in the lives of common people.