Important People Of The Reinassance

William Shakespeare William Shakespare was born on April 23, 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. He traveled to London to work on becoming an actor. He was apart of the Globe, which was the most famous theatre. He beacome the most popular dramitist, but he looked mainly to poetry not playwriting.He wrote The Sonnets of Shakespeare which consisted of 154 sonnets. He also wrote 30 plays mainly in the four categories: histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances. Wrote Romeo and Juliet, in 1596. Wrote for plays such as: Julius Ceaser, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Anthony and Cleopatra. Only 18 plays were actually publised. He died on April 23, 1616. Albert Durer Albert was born in the city of Nuremberg on May 21, 1471. His family were Hungarian goldsmiths. During his lifetime he made three long trips: in 1494 and from 1505-1507 to Italy, and from 1520-1521 to Antwerp and the Netherlands. He was an author and he painted and engraved. He did engravings that showed Holy scenes following the Reformation of the Bible. Inigo Jones The time of Inigo Jones was known as the Inigo Jones Period.Inigo Jones and his followers we known for building and desigining masions built during the early Renaissance.He raised English architecture from its decline after the failure under the rule of James I. He also created an elevated and purified school. His art helped other artists perfect their techniques. Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo was an important person of art during the Renaissance. He left an amazing legacy in his paintings and in his engineering also. He had works such as the Mona Lisa and Sto John the Baptist. His work influenced the Renaissance movement and influenced two artists in particular Michaelangelo and Rapahel. His ideas as well as extraordinary techniques he showed his paintings and sculptures ensured his reputation.

The Characteristics Of The Reinassance

Renaissance means rebirth. It refers especially to the rebirth of learning that began in Italy in the fourteenth century spread to the north including England by the sixteenth century and ended in the north in the mid-seventeenth.During this period there was an enormous renewal of interest in and study of classical antiquity.

But it was not just a rebirth of the old to the new it was also an age of new discoveries (in land) and intellectually. Both of the discoveries offered a tremendous change for the western civilization. In science Copernicus attempted to prove that the sun was the center of the universe not the earth. In religion Martin Luther challenge and ultimately caused a division in one of the most important and major institution of times the church.

 Study of the Renaissance might well center on five interrelated issues.First although Renaissance thinkers often tried to associate themselves with classical antiquity and to dissociate themselves from the Middle Ages important continuities with their recent past such as belief in the Great Chain of Being were still much in evidence.Second during this period certain significant political changes were taking place. Third some of the noblest ideals of the period were best expressed by the movement known as Humanism.Fourth and connected to Humanist ideals, was the literary doctrine of imitation important for its ideas about how literary works should be created.Finally what later probably became an even more far-reaching influence both on literary creation and on modern life in general, was the religious movement known as the Reformation.