USA HISTORY

LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861

AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
In which areas were scholars rediscovering the past focuses?
A
Art, science, and philosophy
B
Science, art, and math
C
Math, philosophy, and science
D
Philosophy, math and art
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Renaissance art Artists turned to Greek and Roman sculpture, painting and decorative arts for both inspiration and the fact that the techniques meshed with Renaissance humanist philosophy.

Detailed explanation-2: -In stark contrast to the High Middle Ages, when Latin scholars focused almost entirely on studying Greek and Arabic works of natural science, philosophy and mathematics, Renaissance scholars were most interested in recovering and studying Latin and Greek literary, historical, and oratorical texts.

Detailed explanation-3: -The rebirth of classicism during the Italian Renaissance partially manifested itself in the rediscovery of ancient Latin and Greek texts by authors such as Cicero, Plato and Aristotle.

Detailed explanation-4: -The subjects studied in the Renaissance were largely concerned with humanities such as poetry, moral philosophy, rhetoric, and grammar as well as ancient authors.

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