The
term
?
Renaissance
?
literally
means
?
rebirth
?
.
It
is
used
to
refer
to
the
time
period
when
there
was
a
____________________
of
the
arts
and
a
renewed
interest
in
the
Classical
____________________
of
Ancient
Greece
and
Rome
.
The
Renaissance
lasted
just
over
one
hundred
years
,
beginning
around
the
early
fifteenth
century
,
and
was
almost
entirely
centred
on
____________________
before
____________________
out
into
the
rest
of
Europe
.
Although
the
Renaissance
was
traditionally
supposed
to
mark
the
end
of
the
____________________
period
and
the
beginning
of
the
modern
age
,
historians
now
think
that
this
is
too
simplistic
a
way
of
looking
at
the
____________________
.
The
rise
of
the
concept
of
____________________
during
this
period
led
to
a
reassessment
of
the
way
a
____________________
life
should
be
lived
.
For
humanists
,
it
was
important
to
spend
one
?
s
life
in
____________________
,
giving
a
greater
emphasis
to
the
individual
?
s
____________________
and
nature
,
rather
than
the
more
medieval
____________________
of
an
existence
spent
in
penance
,
preparing
for
the
next
world
after
____________________
.
The
great
____________________
of
the
Renaissance
,
like
Leonardo
da
Vinci
,
Raphael
,
Michelangelo
and
Botticelli
,
used
new
techniques
such
as
____________________
to
render
their
work
in
painting
and
____________________
more
naturalistic
.
Rather
than
focusing
on
____________________
in
their
work
,
they
used
the
science
of
____________________
to
render
their
figures
more
____________________
.
