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    The beginning of the 1350s sparked a new, yet controversial era in northern Italy known as the Renaissance, which influenced a change in intellectual, artistic, and cultural life. People achieved time and money through the thriving trade routes of the great Mediterranean, enabling many to focus on living a simple, comfortable lifestyle with materialistic pleasures and develop a deep appreciation of the arts, rather than solely focusing on survival. Excess time also provoked educated Italians to contemplate

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    Humanism was a huge part of the renaissance period. They based everything around humanism and inquiring it in there everyday things. The cultural movement of the Renaissance expressed the human potential to exceed excellence and promoted direct study of the literature, art, and music of classical Greek. Humanism was expressed in the Renaissance through the works of Architecture, Art, and Music. Humanism is shown in The Virgin of the Rocks by expressing through art a depiction on the rebirth of

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    The word humanism has a lot of meanings, and trying to explain sometimes can create some confusion. But sometimes, each word means a different type of humanism. In the Middle Ages, art and learning were focus on the church and religion. By the 14th century, people became careless interested in belief about God, heaven, the saints, and more interested in thoughts about themselves, their setting and their daily lives. Most of the transform was influenced by the study of ancient Greek and Roman about

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    brought about by the forward thinkers of the Renaissance was humanism. Humanism was a cultural and intellectual movement that emphasized the human potential to attain excellence through direct study of the literature, art, and civilization of the classical Greek and Roman societies (Merriam-Webster). The scholars and believers in humanism sought to change the course of society away from the narrow pedantry of medieval scholasticism and utilitarianism. Humanism was a basic desire for every citizen to be

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    Europeans emerging into the new era of the Renaissance came upon the deep interest in Latin and Greek literature, whom later took the name “humanists”. Humanism was a new education plan that valued evidence and reason and was influenced by ancient literature from a time when scholars like Plato and Socrates based their teachings with scientific evidence rather than religious teaching. In the effect of the Bubonic plague, many Europeans lost faith when they were battered with the epidemic that drastically

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    Humanism, an enlightening and theoretical viewpoint that emphasize the special value of the entity, as well as the fundamental meaning of human standards while conflicting to spiritual principle, that was urbanized within Europe in the new beginning. This was predisposed through the lessons of early Greek along with Latin literature in addition to philosophy (“Humanism” 1). Humanism became a learning agenda, which was called “The Humanities”; this program had Christian teachings and secular values

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    Many diverse ideas flourished during the European Renaissance which had a lasting impact on the world. Humanism is a worldview and a moral philosophy that considers humans to be of primary importance. The aspect of humanism first thrived in 14th century Italy, and later spread north in the 15th century. Initially humanistic ideas about education were quickly adopted by the Italian upper class. The Italian ideas and attitudes towards life and learning impacted nobility in other parts of Europe. They

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    The Renaissance is a period that emerged in Europe after the middle Ages between the 14th and 17th century. It was a historical period initiating rebirth to society and so named because it signaled the re-emergence of humanism, which was the belief in the intellectual potential and overall experience of humankind. This renewal was witnessed particularly in the arts, with painters and sculptors seeking greater naturalism along with the revival of both mythological narratives and ancient figural proportions

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    Humanism Through Works of Art During the Renaissance Wishing for a rebirth is wishing for an opportunity to achieve perfection, through rebirth one can not only correct previous mistakes, but also contemplate aspects of the world that went unnoticed in previous times. Literally meaning “rebirth” the Renaissance is a time period of discovery and reason, where the perspective of the masses went from a concern for one’s existence beyond death back down to earth to the study and the idealism of the

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    Rhiana Bishop CHY4U Mrs.Ritsma September 15th, 2017 Humanism and the Italian Renaissance Many people today do not know what humanism is. Even if they don't what it is, many people in this world are humanist. Humanism is the idea behind humanism is the life on earth can be filled with the value not just items, but abilities and individual worth, as well as that humans, can achieve great things. The humanist movement started with a man named Martin Luther. Luther was a German monk who posted what is

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