1. He criticized abuse of the Catholic Church and
promoted the value of humanist learning
He defended the pacifism and the good ruler
He was a good teacher for Carlos I & V
Erasmo de Rotterdam
He wrote Utopia, a book proposing a society with
religious tolerance and no private property
• He defend the pacifism and the good ruler
• He was behead by Henry VIII
Thomas More
He emphasized the need to base human Knowledge
on reason and nature.
• He belonged to a conversed family.His father was burned at stake ,.
He went out Spain
• He was a big friend of Tomas Moro and Queen Catalina , he taught
Latin the Queen Mary Tudor. He was a teacher in Lovaina , Bolonia
and the best Universities of Europe.
Luis Vives

2. THE SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT
Nicolaus Copernicus developed Church rejected Copernicus´
the Heliocentric theory. This theory for religious reasons. It
maintained that the Sun was supported the Ptolemaic
the centre of the Universe, theory, which maintained the
and that the Earth and other earth was the centre of the
planets revolved around it. Universe

3. Other scientists
Miguel Servet
• He studied blood circulation and he
was burned at the stake in Switzerland
. He was persecuted in all Europe
Andrea Vesalius
• He studied anatomy

4. A New Artistic Style : RENAISSANCE ART
RENAISSANCE ART WAS INSPIRED BY ARTISTIC MODELS
OF ANTIQUITY. Renaissance artists wanted to revive the
simple , harmonious forms of the Greeks and Romans
and they rejected the ornamentation of the Gothic style
The Quinquecento
They tried to capture the The Quattrocento was the term used to
ideal beauty of human beings was the term applied describe 16th century art ,
. It began in Italy in the 14th to 15th century to the which flourished in Rome .
Italian Art ,which During this period , this
century but it spread after flourished in Florence style spread throughout
Europe

5. Artists and patrons
1-During the Middle
ages , artists were 2-In the Renaissance
considered ordinary , artist began to sign
artisans who worked their works and
in workshops and tried to achieve
didn´t sign their fame and recognition
creations
4- Mecenas were rich
3-Artists counted people , such as The
Medici family of
on the support of
Florence, who
art patrons financed works of
(mecenas) art and protected
their creations