| The Renaissance is widely considered by many to | | | | and much has collected throughout the years to |
| have been a historic age, this period of time came | | | | show the validity within this age of progression in all |
| after the Middle Ages but before the Reformation in | | | | avenues of interest. It is the Renaissance thathas |
| historic hindsight, but the Italian Renaissance of the | | | | propelled the many ages to follow into their current |
| 15th century is connected with the absorption of | | | | state, with much praise being accrued to the many |
| knowledge by Western influences. | | | | pioneers which pushed this age to a close,but their |
| Especially the various realms of mathematics from | | | | impact is felt in the architecture and artwork of our |
| the origins of Hindu India, the importance of living well | | | | time through the striking ways in which they moved |
| in the present through humanism, and the explosion | | | | everything forward by leaps andbounds. |
| of knowledge brought about by the invention of | | | | Much to come from the years within the |
| printing that allowed many to understand the world | | | | Renaissance, whether it would be philosophically or in |
| around them. | | | | the aesthetics that claim to hold sway in the |
| As for the art of the time, the Renaissance boasted | | | | multitude of artistic pursuits to have arisen, but from |
| many of the most important artists to have been | | | | there it has only been elaborated upon. Creating an |
| culled from the public consciousness; such as | | | | established amount of history from which to draw |
| Leonardo da Vinci, Donatello, and Michelangelo, and | | | | upon, and it is these things which man claims to call |
| has come to represent a golden era of time in which | | | | art which seems to have truly revolutionized the |
| many people found themselves enlightened as to the | | | | world in which we live and strive every day. |
| state of world affairs and their own internal issues as | | | | There are many things out there today that we |
| well. Much of the art to come out of the | | | | have come acknowledge as fitting into the categories |
| Renaissance has been described as being the turning | | | | encompassing the realm of art, these areas in |
| point for a large amount changes in the way things | | | | particular range the gamut from paintings and |
| worked, and much of this is due to the previously | | | | sketches to sculpture and architecture, but all these |
| mentioned artists and their now pricelessworks. | | | | things have the common central idea of expressing |
| The Renaissance has seemed to donate quite a bit | | | | an artists interpretations of the world both within and |
| to our culture as it now stands, even though a new | | | | without. |
| age of Renaissance has yet to be really hinted at, | | | | |