High Renaissance (middle) {Ans: - is a 50-year period from 1475 to 1525. ~This is the period of greatest achievement in the Renaissance, ~the period of Michelangelo, of Leonardo da Vinci, of Raphael, the greatest masters of the Renaissance. -da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" -Michelangelo greatest paintings in Sistine Chapel in the Vatican. (walls of the ceiling)-greatest work of art in the entire history of West}Renaissance {Ans: -period of cultural "rebirth" (portal into modern age) -it was a great historical problem ~A historical problem is a set of circumstances so complex that it defies easy explanation.}Humanism {Ans: -begins with introspection: look inward-self-examination, self-knowledge, self-discovery -ends with projection: project in on the world of what you find inside. ~You figure out who you are, you figure out what man is, and then you measure the world by that (sounds like Greeks, Renaissance, and modern humanism)}"Scientific Revolution" {Ans: ~Scientific revolution points us to the notion of rationalism, the faculty of human reasoning ~This is the belief that the human mind, reason, the critical faculty can comprehend the world, can figure out the mysteries of the universe.}Literary example: Pico della Mirandola. {Ans: humanist writer-wrote essay on "Oration on the