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Renaissance Influence On Religion

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Renaissance was the time during the fourteenth and sixteenth century where different changes to culture appeared in like art and literature, this was called rebirth. Churches would often sponsor artist lots of money to make art in the name of God. One artist was Michelangelo, who made the statue of the naked body of David which celebrated the human body. It was praised for its realism and the attention to details as well as with the Sistine chapel, where he had laid on his back on planks of hardwood where paint would drip on his face in order to finish the piece of art. Leonardo Da Vinci was an artist, scholar, scientist, and Innovator and he was referred to as the ideal Greek, well rounded man. He had many creative ideas as shown in his sketchbooks where he had sketches of flying creations and tank like vehicles. …show more content…

Soon a man named Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press which allowed for more books to be published so people wouldn’t have to write by hand, which also led to more people becoming more fluent in literature because it was printed in their own language. The church at the time acted like a worldly prince rather than a holy man and they would say that you need to donate some money to the church to increase your chance of not getting into purgatory. Once people started reading their bibles they began questioning their religious figures and some started splitting from the church and it didn’t help when a German monk named Martin Luther who wrote a book called the Ninety-Five Thesis, which called out the catholic church for being corrupt, and the people acknowledged that he had good points but the church didn’t like what he had to say but eventually a lot of people split from the church and Luther thought that the bible was the path to salvation, thus creating

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