Hello everyone it’s Jackson back again with another blog post. Today we’re talking about the Renaissance. This was a awesome unit because we got to learn about the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci and other greats that lived in this time period. We started this project with a driving question. Which means a question that we need to answer by the end of the unit. The driving question was, How did the Renaissance influence the western worldview? This is the secound post about worldview so I guess it pretty important.

Introduction:

What is the Renaissance? The renaissance was a time period ranging from the fourteenth century to the seventeenth century. The renaissance was a very wierd and cool time period for many reasons, there was many new inventions and lots of new technology. There wasn’t just new technology, religions had changed, politics had changed and so did the people. During the renaissance there were four different groups of people. One of the groups were the thinkers, a person who would fall into the thinkers section would be leanardo da Vinci. There are three other groups, the artists and the mathematicianas/scientists. The groups took a huge part in the renaissance.

Thinkers:

The first group we are going to talk about is the thinkers. What is a thinker? Thinkers are the people that influence people to believe in differnt thing. For example they taught people about humanism which means you do not have to rely on god for everything.  Without these thinkers many Christians would just sit back and try to get god to do everything for them. This is why thinkers were crucial to the improvement of the renaissance.

Artist: 

Art before the renaissance was very boring and plain it lacked contrast and color, until the renaissance came around they painted pictures of everything from naked people to mermaids and god, or just a girl with no eyebrows (Mona Lisa). Most of the artist were just drawing what was going on around them or what was going on in there brains.

Sculpting is also a form of art, although back then they were not considered artist and they only sculpted for curchs and rarely signed there work. Until the renaissance, during the renaissance the sculptures became artists and greatly appreciated.

This statue by Michelangelo was attacked be a man with a hammer and the police said the guy was sent by another sculpture to destroy it.

Michelangelo’s David:

The scientists/mathematicians

The next group is the scientist/mathematicians. The only was to learn about science or math before  in the renaissance, it was by reading books that people had already written you could not ask questions or do new experiments. Once the renaissance everyone did but not until the scientific method which was not created by Italians but by an Islamic scholar named Ibn Al-Haytham. There was obviously science before the scientific but not to the same extent.

THE PROJECT: 

 

Conclusion:  This was one of the most interesting units, because it talks about all different subjects and all different kinds of people, from the artists to the thinkers, and the mathematicians and scienctists. It was just all really fascinating, and eye opening. Thank you reading. Jackson floe signing off.