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a few centuries deciding the Middle Ages were a typo worth correcting.
means A revival or flourishing of art, learning, and culture — most famously the European one that bridged the medieval and modern worlds, though the word now describes any vigorous rebirth.
from From French renaissance, literally 'rebirth,' built from re- ('again') and naissance ('birth'), which traces back through Old French to Latin nascentia, from nasci, 'to be born' — the same root that gives us native, nascent, and nation. The capital-R Renaissance as a name for the historical period was applied long after the fact by later writers looking back on it.
- name origin
- French for rebirth, coined centuries after the fact
- plague boost
- Black Death's labor shortage raised wages and ideas
- banker fuel
- Medici money bankrolled half the genius
- perspective
- painters mathematically invented vanishing points around 1420
- da vinci
- finished shockingly few of his famous projects
italian renaissance — florence and italy, 14th-17th centuries, revived classical art and humanism
harlem renaissance — 1920s-1930s new york, african american cultural and artistic explosion
northern renaissance — 16th century northern europe, oil painting and printmaking innovation