Renaissance+architecture,+music,+and+science

​ The Renaissance Architecture Most ideas for art and architecture used during the Renaissance derived from classical architecture from Greece and Rome. Some common features found in buildings during that time include columns, arches, and domes. Also, while building churches, the circle began replacing the cross, because it was believed to represent geometric perfection.

Contraposto- Linear Perspective-**
 * Brunelleschi-** Most of Brunelleschi's works are in Florence, Italy. He also became a goldsmith in 1398. Inspired by Roman author Vitruvius on a book about architecture. Brunelleschi's first arrchitectural commision included arches, columbs, and capitals and became the first distinct reference to classical antiquity. Another commision of Brunelleschi's was to design the Cathedral of Florence.
 * Proportion-

Music Music theorists began studying proportions in music, and how to create different pitches and octaves. Many ideas were gotten from Pythagoras, a Greek Mathematician, who studied proportions, and they studied ancient Greek drama. (Interactives: Renaissance)

Science

ALCHEMY- Paracelsus:Alchemy is the study of reducing elements to a base substance and changing it to a new element. A huge theme in Alchemy during the Renaissance was the attempt to turn lead to gold. Two other comonly used elements were sulphur and mercury, and salt was added later. ASTRONOMY- Galileo, Kepler, CopernicusAstronomy during the Renaissance was focused mostly on Ptolemy's geocentric model, where the Earth was in the center of the universe, the sun and planets orbited around the Earth, and the stars were fixed on spheres that rotated around the Earth. Copernicus later studies a "crazy" idea that the Earth revolves around the sun. This strongly contradicts the church's point of view.