“It is undoubtedly a golden age,” the humanist Marsilio Ficino wrote five hundred years ago about Renaissance, “which has restored to the light the liberal arts that had almost been destroyed: grammar, poetry, eloquence, painting, sculpture, architecture, music” (Mee Jr., 5). The 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries in Europe were the time of unprecedented changes. In about 1450s, European scholars became more interested in studying the world around them, their art became more true to life, …showed first 75 words of 1804 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1804 total…of Italy, but had a major impact on the rest of Europe’s fate. Humanist ideas undertook the avant-garde minds of Europe and guided its evolution every since. Its artwork and architecture defined reality and influenced artists well into the 21th century. New ideas and views surrounding politics, surfacing out the period of Renaissance, had greatly influenced governments of the centuries to follow. Changed the world around them, Renaissance men had changed the world today.