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What triggered the Renaissance?
The Black Death helped set the stage for the Renaissance, wrote Robert S. Gottfried in “The Black Death.” Deaths of many prominent officials caused social and political upheaval in Florence, where the Renaissance is considered to have begun. The Medici family moved to Florence in the wake of the plague.
What were some of the factors that contributed to improving life during the Renaissance?
These social factors included ‘new rulers’, social mobility, trade, and a society that was not bound by traditional values. Above all, the increasing secularism of the times allowed people in the Renaissance to conceive a new way of living and even a new world.
Why did the ideas of the Renaissance spread slowly?
Feudalism was much more present in European society outside of Italy which caused the ideas of the Renaissance to spread slowly. This was because Feudal society was not as open to new ideas as the city-states that existed in Italy at the time.
How did Florence become the center of the Renaissance?
Florence was the initial epicenter of Renaissance art but by the end of the 15thcentury, Rome had overtaken it. Pope Leo X (a Medici) ambitiously filled the city with religious buildings and art. This period, from the 1490s to the 1520s, is known as the High Renaissance.
How did the Medici influence the High Renaissance?
Pope Leo X (a Medici) ambitiously filled the city with religious buildings and art. This period, from the 1490s to the 1520s, is known as the High Renaissance. As with art, musical innovations in the Renaissance were partly made possible because patronage expanded beyond the Catholic Church.
How does the Renaissance begin from darkness to light?
From Darkness to Light: The Renaissance Begins. During the Middle Ages, a period that took place between the fall of ancient Rome in 476 A.D. and the beginning of the 14th century, Europeans made few advances in science and art. Also known as the “Dark Ages,” the era is often branded as a time of war, ignorance,…