RENAISSANCE HUMANISM

What needs to be remembered…

The Middle-Ages focused on

religion…

But Humanistic scholars decided

to focus on Man

For them, being educated made

you a good man

Gutemberg’s printing press really helped them

So Humanistic scholars criticized

the Church…

And Luther founded the New Protestant religion

PROTESTANTS ARE THE FUTURE

For them, The Catholic Church was

too obsessed with money

And lied to the ones who could not read the Bible in Latin

Come on ! Buy some tickets to Heaven !

So They translated the Bible in

Vernacular/vulgar language

La Bible The Bible Santa Biblia Die Bibel

The Catholic Church reacted with the Counter-Reformation to improve itself… But It also tracked heretics down with the Inquisition!

Humanistic scholars tried to explain natural phenomena…

NO, the Earth is not the center of

the Universe!

NO! God does not create diseases and does not control the human

body!

The Antiquity was taken as a role

model…

But Humanistic artists found also

new subjects…

The body

Portraits

Feelings

However they never really rejected religion as none of them was

atheistic

Michelangelo’s Sistine chapel

Michelangelo’s piéta