| What did the Renaissance contribute to the modern world? |
| The Renaissance was a time that re-thought all that man had acomplished before it. A time where people looked back on what they had achevied before and what it had overcome. This was the temptation of the humanist. To look back at times of old too solve the times of that day. The Renaissance incorperated great art, classical music, sculptor, literature, pyhilosophy, architecture, painting (in its many forms), poetry and many other liberal arts. All of these things have contributed much to the modern world. We now have a greater understanding for the liberal arts and we now follow there example of devleing into the past for information and cultural richness. Although we dont model ourselves on the past times we are certainly interested in the past and the history of man. Humanist scholar Marsilio Ficino(1433-99) spoke of the Renaissance as "A golden age that had restored to life the liberal arts, which were almost extinct: grammar, poetry, rhetoric, painting, sculpture, architecture, music and the ancient singing of songs to the Orphic lyre." It has done all of these things for the modern world, enriching us in many ways. The Renaissance has also taught us how to think. To think out side the square we live in, in a word. People like giotto, rapheal, donetello, petrarch, michelangelo and da vinci have paved the way for thought and discovery of ourselves. These men and this time have contributed much to the modern world in everyway. Petrarch once said " The Style is the Man", he meant that careless expression reflected careless thought. We must take that into account as we continue to move into the future. We must never forget the acomplishments that were acheived in the times of the Renaissance. |