Jessica Nguyen

Health Team Relations

THE RENAISSANCE
AD 1350- AD 1650

DISCOVERIES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Dissection -This process helped people comprehend the human anatomy more.
The Printing Press - Allowed people to spread news and medical information quicker.

INTRODUCTION:
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that went through the time period of the 14th and 17th
century. It started in Italy around the late middle ages and then expanded throughout Europe.
This was the time of enlightenment. There were many new founded artists around this time.
It was a huge change from the Middle and Dark Ages. It was period of awakening. Greek and
Roman mythology inspired many people.

RANDOM FACT:
Renaissance means rebirth in English.

IMPORTANT PEOPLE:

Leonardo Da Vinci - Artist.

Michelangelo - Sculptor.
Shakespeare - Poet.
Johannes Gutenberg - Invented the printing press.
Andres Vesalius - Published a book about dissection.
Paracelsus - Wrote sickness and other diseases of minors.

Michelangelo and Da Vinci studied the human body to

create more realistic art.
BELIEFS OR THEORIES:
Medicine in Europe were mostly constructed upon theories but were not researched thoroughly,
and most people did not know how much of the theories work. But the Islamic worlds

contribution of knowledge helped. Then again there were false assumptions made by Pliny the
Elder and Aristotle.
QUOTE:
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.
Vesalius.
POEM:
What is our life? A play of passion,
Our mirth the music of division,
Our mother's wombs the tiring-houses be,
Where we are dressed for this short comedy.
Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is,
That sits and marks still who doth act amiss.
Our graves that hide us from the setting sun
Are like drawn curtains when the play is done.
Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest,
Only we die in earnest, that's no jest.
-Sir Walter Raleigh
Patronage - The support given by the wealthy to artists, writers and musicians. Renaissance
patrons included the royal family and powerful Italian nobles such as the Medicis, the Borgias
and the Sforzas.