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 …showed first 75 words of 1144 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1144 total…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).