The Renaissance was a period between the 14th and 16th centuries that began in Italy and later spread to other parts of Europe. It was characterized by a revival of classical learning and interest in humanism after the cultural decline of the Middle Ages. Notable Renaissance artists, writers, and thinkers like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli helped revive interest in art, philosophy, and science through their revolutionary works that celebrated humanity. The Renaissance also saw important innovations in many fields as well as the exploration of new continents.

1. Renaissance
14th to 16th Century

2. Origin
• 1500c-1688c
• The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings
once more in the center of life's stage and infused
thought and art with humanistic values.
• In time the stimulating ideas current in Italy
spread to other areas and combined with
indigenous developments to produce a French
Renaissance, an English Renaissance, and so on.

3. Overview
• The term Renaissance, literally means "rebirth" and is the period
in European civilization immediately following the Middle Ages,
conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of
interest in classical learning and values.
• The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of
new continents, the substitution of the Copernican for the
Ptolemaic system of astronomy, the decline of the feudal system
and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application of
such potentially powerful innovations as paper, printing, the
mariner's compass, and gunpowder.
• To the scholars and thinkers of the day, however, it was primarily a
time of the revival of classical learning and wisdom after a long
period of cultural decline and stagnation.

4. Revival of Art
• The cultural boom of the renaissance period gave birth
to numerous revolutionary artists. Some of which were
painters, sculptors, writers and architects.
• These included Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Titian
(Tiziano Vecellio), Niccolò Machiavelli, Donatello,
Michelangelo, and Dante.
• Some of which are not only artists but are also referred
as philosophers, engineers, or even scientists. (e.g.
Leonardo da Vinci, referred as the ultimate
"Renaissance man," who practiced all the visual arts
and studied a wide range of topics, including anatomy,
geology, botany, hydraulics and flight.

5. Renaissance Artists

6. Renaissance Artworks

7. Form of Planning
• Generally, the form of planning of the
renaissance period is based culturally on
Roman and Greek influence (pre-medievel)
that which is called ‘Classical’ culture.
• It is the revisit of past philosophies and
principles as well as arts, sciences and
architecture.
• The mixture of logic and sciences that was
produced was latter called “Scholasticism.”