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Virtual Museum of Renaissance Humanism By: Shazeen ** Intro: ** This **Virtual Museum talks about the four main aspects of Humanism which are:** **The** **Importance Of The Individual, Modeling Themselves On The Ancient Past, The Importance Of Learning and Contributing To Society. After you will read this you will understand the importance of each of the aspects. Also there will be photo's to support each paragraph. I hope you enjoy this Virtual Museum, and learn something from it.

Importance of the Individual: ** Its said, that humanists believed in individual achievements and importance of history and arts. Every Renaissance thought that each individual had dignity and potential. They also believed you could shape their lives through there own efforts and talents. They believed to develops one mind was to serve god. You could achieve exceptional things from knowledge and learning. Humans could achieve the power of reason, which is thinking to find the truth for themselves. Individuals should be skilled in different ways, by developing their mind, body and soul. Individualism was very important when it came to arts.  

**Modeling Themselves On The Ancient Past** 

 Greek and the Romans civilization during the middle ages, had yet not been forgotten. And of course the language latin, which was a language belonging to romans; still remained the language of scholars and the churches. During the middles ages, art was very admired. During the Renaissance time, the educated people began looking back at the ancient works and look at it in a variety of ways. They began to admire the eloquent writings of the ancient writers, and became fascinated of their ideas of society, politics, history, and of course the arts. Democracy started from Greece, since then we have made a greater society today. We acknowledged Olympic games from Greek as well. And they still go on and on today. We got Drama from Greece, when they performed plays for entertainment. We gained architecture, when they painted and drew phenomenal drawings. We got comedian shows from greece plays as well, we also gained a jury system. And Romans happened to be the ones that created cement, and churches. We gained individualism, meaning we can't always have someone over our heads telling us what to do. We need to learn something on our own. And most importantly we gained education. The past is the reason to our education today. And the reason its very important, because without acknowledging education we will get nowhere in life. We have modeled more then a lot from the ancient past, and thats what wraps up this paragraph about Modeling Themselves to the Ancient past.



The Importance of Learning

 One of the most important ways the humanist influenced the Renaissance was the society and how much emphasis they put in education. Cause we live in a world that changes all the time, and we need to knowledge something from that. It was very important to be educated cause it helped your mind, and body. You could acknowledge anything from learning. They really gave importance in learning because they all believed you could achieve better things through learning. Many Humanist believed it was important to train young people's characters and bodies as well as their minds. They also encouraged the kids to have a curious, questioning mind. In order to be truly cultured, a person should read good books and look at great works of arts. Education was and still is really important.




** Contributing To Society

**Paintings, architecture, sculptures, and literature was a huge thing in society. It was important to help your society in any way that was possible. Patrons (people who payed artist to produce arts) buying and making arts for the society, for the government. Whole patrons system. Civic humanism, Renaissance humanism would be very interested in what the classical authors had written about the good of the government. Cicero's idea was that public service was the duty of everyone in society was very influential. The civic humanism believed to be a good responsible citizen, meant educating yourself about the history and political issues and the working to improve society. And making a better society today.