h.” Martin Luther’s beliefs were deemed to be heretic in nature and he was hidden away by a German Prince.The word Renaissance means a “rebirth”. This is exactly what happened after the crusades and the split of the Roman Catholic Church. A rebirth of ideas was their outcome. The most drastic change took place in art. New perspectives were created by such people as Giotto, Tommaso, Masaccio, and Filippo Brunelleschi. With these new perspectives came a new age of art within the Renaissance. Many new painters learned about using shades of light and dark to create the illusion of depth, along with new techniques top make paintings more realistic.The Renaissance was truly the “rebirth” of lost ideas along with the birth of new ideas. The split of the church and the eight crusades to recapture Jerusalem are two of the many reasons for the “birth” of the Renaissance, yet both are important to the virth of the Renaissance. Without the crusades, which brought back lost works from the Roman Empire and opened trade with the far east, and the split of the Roman Catholic Church, which brought about the Reformation of the church, there would now have been enough of a basis for the Renaissance to ...
