Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci, widely known as a great artist, was also a philosopher and had one of the greatest minds of his time, designing many inventions and blueprinting ideas way before his time. Leonardo Da Vinci made many contributions to society through not only his artistic, but th...

The Period of Rebirth The Renaissance has always been interesting and fascinating historical period that means rebirth and represents a change in thinking. People were waking up from a deep sleep, which lasted during the Middle Ages. Urgent to learn and know, they started to experiment, put the ...

In August of 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. This is a clever rhyme that people use to remember when Columbus set off and discovered the New World. But what if he didn't get permission from Queen Isabella to go off into the unknown to do this? It might have been another hundred years b...

Leonardo da Vinci, one of the great artists of the High Renaissance, was a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His paintings influenced the Italian art style for more that a century after his death. His innovations in science lead to many developments of modern science. Leonardo w...

The Early Renaissance or the Florentine Renaissance all started when the Italian artists and intellectual minds felt an urge to return to their Classical roots. Having felt that they had broken radically with the past they began to speak of a rebirth of civilization. They rejected the more recent, ...