The Renaissance’s revival of art came along with new influences on the world. Art was greatly encouraged and thus artists were very influential, they are hired by powerful and wealthy patrons to do artistic work everywhere. A flowering of art has taken on throughout the entire Europe. There was also a new artistic event occurred that artists now intended to make their work more realistic. Leonardo da Vinci, one of the most famous artists in the world, experimented with the laws of linear perspective and variations of light and shade to perfect his work. Also different approaches like studying anatomy and proportions of a human body, using oil, and overall making corrections on the canvas helped to improve the importance that painting eventually made throughout the world. His two famous painting, “Mona Lisa” and “Last Supper” are still very worthful today and was admired and studied throughout centuries. In addition, the greatest sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Michelangelo, has expressively showed the beauty of human body and elaborated on the stylistic manners of the human. He was also important because he set a standard to which all other sculptures to this day are compared. It is evident that with the help of these great artists, the lasting impressions that their work had put on the world will never be forgotten nor put to rest. Besides the revival of art, anther influential change in the Renaissance was an epistemological transformation, or “Scientific Revolution”.
The Scientific Revolution, begun in 1543, was not just a revolution in natural science and technology, but also was a modification in world’s view. The scientific advances challenged traditional concepts of God and the universe, leaving a profound effect on the rest of western civilization. One of the important revolutionary thinkers during this time was Galileo Galilei. Galileo through his invention of the telescope in 1609 was the first man to see craters on the moon, sunspots and the rings of Saturn. The Book Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of World that he published in 1632 had showed new discoveries in astronomy and physics, which was an extremely important achievement in science. Perhaps the most influential in the Scientific Revolution was the Englishman Isaac Newton. It was him who took the observations of the stars and planets and made them a measurable and undeniable fact. And it was also him who invented calculus to explain the laws of gravity. In doing so, he showed that nature had order and meaning that was not based on the faith in religion but on human reason, which gave the people something to believe in besides faith in an invisible God. Proof was found through science and experiment rather than Scripture and prayer. Therefore the scientific revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself. Within a century and a half, man's conception of himself and the universe he inhabited was altered, and the scholastic method of reasoning was replaced by scientific method.
Renaissance is the French word meaning rebirth. And for its time in history, this meant a blossoming in civilization. In breaking a way from the Middle Ages, people brought revivals in printing industry, in artistic field and in the region of science. These revivals had made great achievement and impact on world in one way or another, but all had greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life. During the era known by this name, Europe emerged from the stagnation of the Middle Ages and experienced a time growth. It was an age in which industrial, economic, intellectual, artistic, and scientific thought turned in new directions.