Early Renaissance

It is the age of change. In medieval time, people were so obsess with religion and that somehow make some people take advantages of Christianity’s faith. This issue led to the misunderstanding in the core of religion. Therefore, one clergy, Martin Luther decided to make the whole thing right again by posting his 95 theses and decided to translate the Bible that back then has only in Latin version in to German so other than clergy commoner can study bible and they don’t have to study the bible by listening to the priest only but the can just read it. This is the breaking point of the Christianity. It is a big change in society.

This event made a big change in society. The role of religion to the society is not as important as in middle age. Philosophe had gained a lot of role in the society. People became more intellectual that they did. People started to do everything by themselves and not relying on God’s good grace all the time. Without the power of the church controlling people to believe in everything they want them to, many scientists came up with a lot of theory and the world is no longer flat. This doesn’t mean that people were atheist but the church has less important role in their life.

As I have mentioned that people are still have faith in God, people brought the idea of God is sacred into architecture of this period. They believe that people are perfect in term of the way they look because God has created them according to the way he looks. Human body is symmetrical. So one characteristic of Renaissance architecture is symmetry. Then, Leonardo Da Vinci made a sketch of Vitruvian man. Human body can be fitted within the circle and square. So it made these two shapes become perfect and sacred.  In Renaissance architecture, people always put the shape of circle and square into it. For example, the arches have the combination of square and circle. This becomes the most important part of renaissance architecture. 

Vitruvian man by Leonardo Da Vinci 

Renaissance arch