The Renaissance The "rebirth" of art, religion, and education in Europe is known as the Renaissance. During this time of rebirth, Renaissance thinkers dismissed the medieval period as a dark age of worthlessness. Instead, a style of classical age inspired a respect for order, perspective, proportion, and principles to the artist’s work. The Renaissance also had a time of rebirth in people’s religion and beliefs. The people became closer to God and began …
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…The Renaissance is hard to define, it will be remembered because it set Europe off to its modern day aspects which can be viewed today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited Bowman, B’Ann, ed. World History Patterns of Civilization. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hal Inc., 1990. Murray, Lindy, and Peter Murray. The Art of the Renaissance. New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1963. “Renaissance.” The New Book of Knowledge. 1989 ed. “Renaissance.” http://www.vimi.edu/~english/medrama.html(20 September 1999).