The two features of Renaissance art include: 1- Revivant revival of Classical Greek/ Roman art forms and styles. 2- The naturalistic realism of it’s faces. Hope this helps!!!2018年1月13日

French word meaning rebirth, now used in English to describe the great revival of art that took place in Italy from about 1400 under the influence of the rediscovery of classical art and culture.

Fun Facts about the Renaissance

• One of the most popular Greek philosophers was Plato.
• Venice was famous for its glass work, while Milan was famous for its iron smiths.
• Francis I, King of France, was patron of the arts and helped Renaissance art spread from Italy to France.
• Artists were initially thought of as craftsmen.

Renaissance architecture had some distinct features that were fairly common to major construction: Square – Many buildings were built as square or rectangle symmetrical shapes. Front – The front or “façade” of the buildings were generally symmetrical around the vertical axis. Columns – They used Roman type columns.

How did the Renaissance art shape Europe? The art and literature from the medieval times was focused on the church and salvation. The Renaissance’s art and literature was focused on the worldly matters along with the Christianity religion.

Renaissance people had certain common values, too. Among them were humanism, individualism, skepticism, well-roundedness, secularism, and classicism (all defined below). These values were reflected in buildings, writing, painting and sculpture, science, every aspect of their lives.

The five major themes of the Renaissance were humanism, secularism, individualism, rationalism, and virtu. It was based on arts and humanities, religion, individuals trying to stand out, science, the church’s authority, and being the best at things.

Individualism, Personal Religion, intense interest in past, anti-aristotle. 4 major themes that characterized Renaissance humanism.

Shakespeare, the Renaissance Man Shakespeare was born toward the end of the broader Europe-wide Renaissance period, just as it was peaking in England. He was one of the first playwrights to bring the Renaissance’s core values to the theater

Shakespeare influenced the Renaissance by standardizing the English language and expanding its vocabulary, deepening the humanity of the characters in his plays through emotional complexity and using elaborate references to Greek and Roman mythology in his writing.

Renaissance in England was called the Elizabethan era

Romeo and Juliet is one of seven plays Shakespeare set in Renaissance Italy, a setting he used to present a freer society than Elizabethan England. At the same time, the play shows that this situation ends in disaster, which serves as a warning to English aristocrats who might try to undermine the Queen’s power.

Shakespeare’s principal source for the plot of Romeo and Juliet was The Tragicall Historye of Romeus and Juliet, a long narrative poem written in 1562 by the English poet Arthur Brooke, who had based his poem on a French translation of a tale by the Italian writer Matteo Bandello.