Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance

Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?

- Italy had cities where ideas were
exchanged
- Wealthy merchant class that could
patronize the arts
- Artists and scholars were inspired by
the ruins of classical Rome
Secular ideas focus on things of this world,
as opposed to the spiritual world
!uring the Renaissance, artists began using
perspecti"e to ma#e secular sub$ects loo#
more realistic
Renaissance writers wrote about secular
sub$ects in the "ernacular