Rebirth

The Renaissance was the period in European history from the fifteenth through to the seventeenth century, viewed as a rebirth after the supposedly “dark” medieval times, and as a revival of Classical Greek and Roman art and philosophy. The Greek philosopher Protagoras made the famous claim that “man is the measure of all things,” thus affirming the central importance of man, and his statement was widely appreciated in the Renaissance, pointing out as it did a radical change from medieval thinking, in which God was always placed at the center of everything.