How Did Art Change In The 1300s

The arts, religion, math and science, astronomy, and the way people thought about the world experienced great changes during the time from the 1300s to the 1700s or a period known as the Renaissance. From the Renaissance came new ideas that would lead to things such as perspective and realism in painting, the religious Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and the Scientific Revolution which included the decline of superstition and magic, the use of the scientific method, new laws of math and science, and the heliocentric theory. The arts began to change in the areas of art and literature. Artists such as Sofonisba Anguissola, Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raphael, and Titian used new techniques such as perspective

These men made huge contributions to astrology through the proposal and the proving of the heliocentric theory. People had always believed that the Earth was the center of the universe because of Ptolemy’s geocentric theory. Copernicus believed that this was not true and proposed the heliocentric theory which said that the Sun was the center of the universe. His work was brushed aside because he could not prove his theory with what was available at the time and no one believed him. That is except for a mathematician by the name of Johannes Kepler who decided to mathematically test the heliocentric theory. After many calculations, Kepler eventually found that the heliocentric theory could be supported mathematically, although this only means that mathematicians could truly understand it and many people still disregarded his work. Once again, it took a mathematician to finally prove the validity of the heliocentric theory. Galileo created a telescope and used it see things that no one had ever seen before. He used his telescope to prove that the Earth did rotate on it axis. His observations of Jupiter’s moons really helped to discredit the geocentric theory. His work, unlike Copernicus and Kepler, gained a lot of publicity and caused a lot of controversy in the church and between scholars (pg. 346-348). The work of these three men was very important because it began to show how math and science were beginning to be applied in order to solve the mysteries of the universe. Their work is still very important because the heliocentric theory is the widely accepted theory today and has stood the test of