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
a man take out the commission and started work in fifteen zero six. forty years were to pass before the sculptor painter poet and scientist michelangelo be in russia he became the architect and site manager of st peter s. he was seventy two when he took over the supervision of europe s largest building sites in fifteen forty seven. the dome of st. he says is the tallest freestanding masonry structure in the world. in an area not having it in the river dome was michelangelo s idea and its construction was the pinnacle of his artistic career. his creative life lasted seventy years he saw himself as a sculptor but he also created a popular works as a painter and architect. he spent years inquiries constantly searching for
p. we wouldn t have st peter s we wouldn t have all this wonderful art in rome we wouldn t have many pieces of music if these renaissance popes hadn t existed. renaissance folks are ambivalent like the whole of modernity they have admirably good traits and they also behave like princes like machiavelli unrestrained and confident and sometimes they put their responsibilities to the church on the back burner or even forgot about them altogether. is the second. as. the romans called him. the architect and his side was done out of the mounting he was known as maestro robin until the master of destruction. the two men put their stamp on rome. truly as had buildings torn down squares and notched and roads rebuilt. manti had gained his status as a leading architect with the cloister at some time earlier del apache. in rome
or the tenth one set of him this man will never accomplish anything how wrong he was. not it was a polarizing figure charming and erudite he was also described as for bush and vain a man who was openly homosexual at a time when gay men were persecuted even burned at the stake. united of inchy is considered one of the most versatile geniuses of all time. the star of the renaissance was much more than just an artist he was also an architect anatomist sculptor mathematician iconoclast inventor. for the brilliant creator of the mona lisa painting was perhaps just a necessary evil. i mean a thirteen paintings are attributed to leonardo today most have been lost because