Renaissance Learning

Women in European art in the late Middle Ages Nicholas Soares Southern States University  Abstract The women’s role in the Middle ages art is a fascinating and controversial topic for many reasons. Most of what happens remained in the darkness, due to the lack of sources and understanding of the women social, economic and religious position during that time. In this paper we are going to try to connect dots to trace a profile of the women impact in the arts during the Middle Age era. Keywords:

merchants and returning crusaders told of cultures in Asia, the Middle East and Africa that had advanced learning of the earth and the human body. Middle Age food found new flavor courtesy of rare spices that were imported from the East. Schools and universities were forming across Western Europe that would help medieval society evolve from the Dark Ages on its way to a Renaissance of art and learning. Medieval

Over the course of various historical eras, people have examined and analyzed certain periods that have given significant influence to our modern world. In Europe, the fifth century to the fifteenth century is known as the Middle Ages and to this day is questioned whether to refer it as a dark time or not. Many may say these ages were dark due to barbarian invasions that eventually led to the fall of the Roman Empire. On the other hand what those individuals lacked to take notice of was the significant

improved technology over the years. But there is one specific part of history, I thoroughly enjoy. The Middle Ages, you, might be wondering, Why the Middle Ages? There are tones of different parts of history you could do; Egypt, Qin dynasty of China, Renaissance, Inca, Aztec’s, or you could have done the Mayans. But why did you choose The Middle Ages? The Reason I enjoy The Middle Age, time period, so much is it goes over interesting topics. Such as Constantinople is founded as the capital of the Roman

this age had a good will to bring progress into the areas of religion, science, and social behavior. One of the most important features in the sixteen century was to analyze the past actions and behaviors of the humans. The Renaissance and the humanism of the age exalted the learning of the classical civilization and the encouragement of the study of the primary sources of the human history. Nevertheless, we can observe that the outcomes of this attempt of progress had a severe cost to pay. The constant

goddesses with specialized functions, they regarded certain mountains, lakes, rivers, or groves, of trees as scared because they were link ked to deities (Mackay et al., 2012). They were the only one who worshipped gods from the nature. Renaissance The Renaissance was the era were people started to rediscover everything from the past. The Italians were living in a new era; they were mostly interested in the ancient Latin and Greek Literature and philosophy (Mackay et al., 2012). In other words,

Supernatural - Are Ghosts Real? Ever since the mankind has expanded its senses of curiosity, the unnatural and mythical stories began to rise. These stories contained supernatural or celestial creatures. Since the stories were told many times, every time something new or entertaining would be added to draw people’s attention. In these vast numbers of stories were some of Shakespeare's best literature such as “Hamlet” and “Macbeth”. The reason artists such as Shakespeare liked writing about supernatural

Known as one of the greatest artist of all time that came out of the Renaissance, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6, 1475 in Caprese Italy. Michelangelo’s father worked for the Florentine government and when Michelangelo was only a few weeks old he moved his family back to Florence Italy and this would become the place where Michelangelo would fall in love and learn about art. As Michelangelo grew he became more interested with art and became fascinated with the painters

Humanism and Renaissance Humanism brought MAN to the forefront causing a veritable cultural revolution. Reason and the will to better understand the world fomented progress in the scientific fields. Intellectuals throughout Europe came under the influence of humanism which was disseminated with the invention of the printing press and the guidance of princes. Finally, humanism had a religious impact as well with the protestant reformation and bringing religious pluralism

of tens and thousands more blows, for two more years. When the chiseling was finally put to a halt, unveiled was what would have become one of the most famous and valuable contribution in the history of arts by the greatest leader of the Italian Renaissance period – Michelangelo’s “Pieta”. I strongly believe that through leadership, I can utilize my own