er the Crusades and split of the Roman Catholic church. A rebirth ofideas was their outcome. The most drastic change took place in art. Newperspectives were created by such people as Giotto, Tommaso Masaccio, andFilippo Brunelleschi. With these new perspectives came a new age of artwithin the Renaissance. Many new painters learned about using shades oflight and dark to create the illusion of depth, along with new techniques tomake paintings more realistic. The Renaissance was truly the "rebirth" oflost ideas along with the birth of new ideas. The Split of the Church and theeight Crusades to recapture Jerusalem are two of the many reasons for the"birth" of the Renaissance, yet both are important to the birth of theRenaissance. Without the Crusades, which brought back lost works from theRoman Empire and opened trade with the far east, and the split of theRoman Catholic Church, which brought about the reformation of the church,there wouldnt have been enough of a basis for the Renaissance to occur....
