Renaissance Humanism rise after the collapse of the Middle Ages, thus ending its feudalism. ... In the Middle Ages, people grew up thinking nothing but hard work and war. ... They studied the Greeks and Romans and saw that they had a different life than the life in the Middle Ages. ... The Sistine Chapel ceiling made by Michelangelo, God is not golden colored. ...
However, in the 19th century, Jules Michelet and Jakob Burckhardt popularized the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct historical period heralding the modern age, characterized by the rise of the individual, scientific inquiry, geographical exploration, and the growth of secular values. ... The classical poets and mythologys were well known throughout the Middle Ages. ... In the middle forground, long golden haired Venus covers her breast with her right hand and stands upon giant shells. ... Soft golden tones highlighting the figure also resound with the backgournd landscape. ...
Originally the mausoleum was a decorated cylinder, with a garden top and golden quadriga. ... The Renaissance was a golden age of church building. ... Much of this money went to sponsor the great architects and artists of the age. ...
In 1368 Petrarch wrote De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia (On his own ignorance and that of many others), which became a significant example of the contrast of humanism of the Renaissance to scholasticism of the Middle Ages. ... Petrarch urged others to awaken from the darkness "of the Middle Ages and move forward out of "the slumber of forgetfulness into the pure radiance of the past" (Humanism 1). ... They thought of themselves as "apostles of a new golden age that would usher in the rinascita " or rebirth of all societies with the resurgence of classical literature and art (Humanism" 1). ...
But he conceded, and Michelangelo began his formal training as an artist at the age of 13. ... A French Cardinal named Jean de Villiers de la Groslaye commissioned the Pieta in 1498. " The historic contract for the Pieta, dated August 26, 1498, says: Let it be known that the most Reverend Cardinal of San Donigi [the name of his titular church] has thus agreed with the master Michelangelo, sculptor of Florence, to wit, that the said master shall make a pieta of marble at his own cost; that is to say, a Virgin Mary clothed, with the dead Christ in her arms, of the size of a proper man, for th...
