The historical period preceding the Renaissance in Europe was the Middle Ages, which had a very strong focus on God and everything related to Jesus and soul salvation. This focus was central to the lives of every Christian. Art, as an indication of the taste, times and concerns of the people who produce it was thus almost exclusively created around religious themes.
As an unexpected consequence of the Crusades (eleventh to thirteenth centuries A.D.), the expeditions organized by western Europeans to reconquer the Holy Land from the infidel Muslims, many Europeans got in contact with books, of all sorts of subjects, produced by the ancient Greeks and Romans which had been translated and even commented (enhanced) by the Arabs. A taste for the "classics" (ancient Greek and Roman works) gradually emerged among the Europeans in the Middle East and some even brought it back to Western Europe, especially the Genoese and the Venetian merchants. The focus of these works was mainly centered on man and all of its aspects: physical, mental, spiritual, etc. Whereas the medieval art was always solemn and excessively serious, always focused on religious themes, the art and thinking of the Renaissance took many of the values of the ancient Greek and Roman societies and granted a lot of importance to man again. The Renaissance began as an attempt to replicate (faithfully copy) the works of the Classic Antiquity in science, politics, philosophy, art (painting, sculpture, architecture), etc.
The invention of the printing press in Germany in the mid 1400s made books cheaper and easier to acquire, and contributed to the rapid spread of the forgotten ideas of the Greeks and Romans and a radical change of thinking somewhat less centered in God.
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Benjamin franklin:
Benjamin franklin was born in 1706. The street he was born on was Milkstreen, Boston.His father had 17 children and Benjiman was just one of them. He went to school at Boston latin school. Sadly though he did not graduate. After that he wen to work for his father. But at the age of twelve he went and worked for his older brother, James. He was a printer and taught Benjiman all about the career of painting.After a few years passed by he went and made The New-England Courant. He was the founder of this newspaper.
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james wilson:James wilson was bon on September 26, 1742. He was born in scotland! He went to school and learned about Scottish Enlightenment. One of his hobbies growing up was golf.Leter on in life he moved to philidelphia. When he grew up he published Considerations on The Nature and Extent of the Legislatice Authority of the Brittish Parluament.
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Roger sherman:
Roger Sherman was born on June 13,1721. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Close by to Boston. His fathers name was WIlliam and his mothers name was Mehetable Sherman. When Roger got older he married Eizabeth on November 17th 1749.They had 7 children but, sadly, Elizabeth died on October 19th 1760. But Sherman remarried Rebecca Prescot in May of 1763.
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