Youre watching news coming up next doc film the renaissance factor part two theyll be more at the top of the hour thanks for joining us. Europe ill be going to. Put whats become of it. What will it look like tomorrow. Evening for a Better Future isnt enough. Requires work which is sufficient. You know actions twenty nineteen may twenty sixth on g. W. The renaissance was when people started keeping track of time. Locksmith peterhead life invented the pocket watch in fifteen ten it soon became a profit tool merchants and a fortune with it. And it is out seafarers to navigate the distant oceans. Shortly before Christopher Columbus had arrived in the americas and the known world triple up inside. People began to understand our planets in new ways and an empire rose on which the sun never sets. This was all thanks to the new portable timepieces scholars could measure and calculate the paths of the heavenly bodies more accurately discovering the mechanisms of Planetary Motion and ultimately
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was always revered but never more than after its notorious theft from the Louvre. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, worked as a handyman at the museum. On Aug. 21, 1911, he wrapped the painting in a blanket and walked out of the museum during the early morning. It's hard to believe, but the theft wasn't discovered for several hours. The painting was missing for two years before its return to the museum.
renaissance helped transform europe and the world. needs. florence in fifteen zero four you noted of him she was a towering figure in an era that became known as the renaissance when the best known painting of all time was created. the mona lisa the mysterious beauty with the inscrutable smile. it s probably a portrait of lisa del gioconda the wife of a cloth and soap merchant from florence. apparently leonardo took years to finish it the artist always struggled with his works he was never satisfied with them and was always trying to perfect them.