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Renaissance
Art
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Characteristics of the
Renaissance
• Humanism
• Individualism
• Questioning Attitude / Critical thinking
• Interest in Secular, or non-religious,
worldly matters
• Rise of the middle class (merchants)
• Great achievements in the arts
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Medieval Art
• Artists depicted
subjects in an
unrealistic 2D style
• Some of the great art
work was in the stain
glass windows, but
again, 2D.
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Characteristics of Renaissance
Art
• Three Dimensional (3-D)
• Realistic & Lifelike
• Influenced by Greco-Roman culture; its forms
and its themes (i.e. beauty of the human body)
• New mediums: Oil on canvas
• And old: Frescos
• The importance of religion in art
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Leonardo Da Vinci
• One of the greatest
artists and inventors
• The Last Supper,
Mona Lisa
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Michelangelo
• The Last Judgment
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Michelangelo
• David
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Donatello
• David
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Raphael
• Madonnas
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Raphael
• School of Athens
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Albretch Durer
• Adoration of the Magi
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Jan van Eyck
• Giovanni Arnolfini and
Bride
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St. Peter’s Cathedral in the
Vatican
• Michelangelo
(also painted the
ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel and Moses)
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The Renaissance Moves North
• Because of the plague, it was not until 1450 that
northern Europe enjoyed the economic growth
that helped support the Renaissance in Italy.
• Northern artists and writers imitated Italian
styles while adding new methods and ideas of
their own.
• As a result of the printing press, books became
more available and people became more
literate.
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Renaissance Writers
•Began to use the vernacular
instead of classical Latin.
– (vernacular = the native language)
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Humanism
• Humanism is the idea that is focused on human
achievements and potential rather than religious
themes.
• Focused on the man and his world.
(The importance of man)
• Concentrated on everyday human problems and
relationships.
• Humanists focus on reality and the world
around them (How man relates, pleasure,
passion) rather than morality.)
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Humanism Cont.
• The secular nature of humanism, as well
as it’s questioning attitude, often brought
it into conflict with the traditional
teachings of the Catholic Church and
Medieval thinking.
• It revolves around the study of the Liberal
Arts: Grammar and Rhetoric, Poetry,
History, and Ethics.
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Humanism in Northern Europe
• Northern Humanists stressed education
and classical learning, however, unlike the
Italian humanists, they emphasized
religious themes.
• They believed that the revival should be
used to bring about religious and moral
reform.
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Petrarch
• Considered the Father of Humanism.
• Believed God had given man his intellect
and potential to be used to the fullest.
• Wrote poetry in Italian and enumerable
works in Latin on different subjects, but is
best known for his Letters, which fill two
volumes.
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William Shakespeare
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew
A Midsummer’s Night
Dream
Romeo and Juliet
MacBeth
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Shakespeare
• The best known Renaissance writer
was William Shakespeare.
• Between 1590 and 1613 he wrote 37
plays that are still performed
around the world.
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Dante
The Divine Comedy
• tells the story of a
man’s journey
through heaven and
hell.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
• Series of stories
depicting the lives of
whole social spectrum
on a pilgrimage to the
shrine of Beckett at
the Canterbury
Cathedral in England
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Boccaccio
Decameron
– Written in 1353, it
is a collection of
novellas (stories)
that demonstrate
life in the time and
portrays many of
the Renaissance
attitudes.
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Erasmus
The Handbook of the
Christian Knight
– A work of a Christian
Humanist, The
Handbook speaks
clearly and logically to
Christian concerning
how their secular lives
should reflect their
spiritual life
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Erasmus
In Praise of Folly
– Book in which Erasmus
criticizes the areas of
society that were in most
need of reform, such as
monasteries and church
corruption.
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Machiavelli
The Prince
– First work of political
science, instruction
manual for the Prince
to do what is
necessary to stay in
power and stability.
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Machiavelli
• Machiavelli was a political
philosopher.
• The Prince advised kings how to
rule.
• In Machiavelli way of thinking: The
end justifies the means.
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Thomas More
Utopia
• a work of fiction, tells
the story of a land
that is almost perfect
in every way and
serves as an example
of what the world
should be.
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The Printing Revolution
• In 1456, Johann Gutenberg printed the Bible
using movable metal type on a machine called a
printing press.
• Printed books became cheap and easier to
produce that hand copies.
• Now, readers gained access to broad range of
knowledge. (Medicine to Religion)
• The printing press would greatly contribute to
the Protestant Reformation.
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