Welcome to the Renaissance period! Here you can experience the world when ideas were plenty and science was more interesting than religion. This is when the European explorers discovered the Americas and when inventors invented innovative things. Art was thriving during the Renaissance period, Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, Shakespeare and many others made masterpieces that are still renowned today.
A Brief History on the Renaissance period
Renaissance in french means rebirth, and this period was a cultural rebirth. The Renaissance period started after the black plague, it started around the 1300s - 1600s. The Renaissance period started in Italy where a handful of Italian thinkers declared it to be a new period. It is based on the rediscovery of Greek and Roman literature. The Renaissance period is famous for its inventions and art, which both revolutionized how we live today. In art people started to paint more individual paintings, more paintings of the great outdoors and fewer church paintings. During this period people wanted to learn more about science and the body, this interest was fueled from the black plague (which occurred in the middle ages). During the Renaissance period great explorations were made. For example, Christopher Columbus discovered the New World (America) andJohn Cabot claimed Canada for England. Many inventions were made like the mechanical clock, the printing press, the scale for weighing, oil paints and flush toilets.
What to wear in the Renaissance period:
Women:
If you were to travel to this time period you would wear a long dress which would be high on the waist and the sleeves and shoulders would be puffy. To show wealth the women wore fancy jewelry made of gold, pearls, sapphires... White hair and white skin was popular throughout the period.
Men:
If you were to travel to this time period you would wear colorful tights or stocking, a shirt, a coat (doublet) which should be tight fitting, and maybe a hat. The hairstyles differentiated throughout the Renaissance period, sometimes it was short hair, long hair, a beard, or a clean shaven face.
Renaissance Europe
-renetheman2
The renaissance period is just plain awesome, I saw Leonardo DaVinci painting Mona Lisa and I saw I actually got to meet him too! He is so interesting, it is amazing to see how differently they see the world!
-realythebos45
Everything i the renaissance period was so lame, like why couldn't they have just kept the lord and ladies and all the stuff from the middle ages. I hated how people had more freedom and could earn money at will, I know you might think me as cruel but then the middle ages were a little bit more fun than the renaissance period.
Places to see:
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San Giorgio Maggiore - was built to model a greek temple
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St. Peter's Basilica - Christian Church
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Louvre - it is located in France and is now currently used as a museum
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The Sistine Chapel - used as a residence for the Pope and most famous for Michelangelo painting on it's ceilings
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El Escorial - palce of a King in Spain in the 1500s