Creativity And Influence During The Renaissance

After years of close-mindedness and forced ignorance, people revived creativity. These people were in a lower class who wanted to learn more, expand their understanding of the world and accomplish many great feats. Little did they know that these ideas would become popular and used throughout the world hundreds of years after its inception. As they developed they began to create new technologies people decided to question their beliefs and form new ones. Creativity and self-achievement became the main goal to get to. This as a whole revolutionized and changed how humans think. People questioned what they were taught before and wondered why everything was like it was. These modern views of people and the places they hold in this world have been …show more content…
During the Renaissance people interest in the arts started to increase and led to artists trying to perfect their craft the best they can. The concept of perspective was an example of the efforts that artists made in order to make their art as best as they possibly could. This practice was used in art works by Renaissance men like The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and The School of Athens by Raphael to express architectural perspective with a central vanishing point to make it look like it is live in front of you. Artists also came up with the idea of making their paintings realistic which was called realism. Realism was developed and created by northern Renaissance men and was their way of expressing the struggles of their everyday life with very intricate details. This was used by Pieter Bruegel in his painting, Winter Landscape With Skaters and a Bird Trap and The David by Michelangelo to show how life and belief were like. The David leaned towards a more religious side and shows that artists retained their faith even though the Renaissance men questioned religion. Making these were examples of their love of self-accomplishment. They also felt that being a polite, kind gentleman was necessary and needed to excel in their work with finesse. This intelligence has influenced our society and could be held responsible for the …show more content…
But when the scientific revolution came people finally had a reliable source to trust and believe. After discovering facts about the earth some of these men began to take these new answers over their religions that weren’t explained as well as science. During the scientific revolution many things were found out about humans, for example Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man showed his interest in the human body and its movement. Da Vinci studied the human anatomy rigorously and had written and sketched his findings which perfectly modeled the skeletal parts. This educated people about their bodies and helped them know what was going on with their bodies. Scientists like Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Johannes Kepler who helped human learn about astronomy. They also taught basic ideas of the movements of our universe and the forces that happen to keep this universe stable. Copernicus made the discovery that the Earth was not in the center of the world but is the center of gravity and the sun was actually the center of the world. He also developed the idea that Earth has the movements of rotation, revolution, and the tilting of the axis. Galileo Galilei adopted some of Copernicus’ ideas but added in in-depth ideas about the worlds outside of Earth. These ideas were rejected by the church so they ordered that Galilei stay in house