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Renaissance, Art and Society
10 The Renaissance
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
At the end of this chapter you should understand ...
• What was the Renaissance?
• The reasons why the Renaissance began in Italy.
• The main features of art, architecture, painting and learning.
• The lives of important Renaissance artists, scientists and
writers.
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How do we know about the Renaissance?
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Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
Milan
Mantua
Ruins of
ancient Rome
Lucca
Siena
Wealth of
Italian cities
Why did the
Renaissance
begin in
Italy?
The printing
press
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Venice
Florence
Papal
States
Rome
City-states
Fall of
Constantinople
Naples
Kingdom
of Naples
Differences between Medieval and Renaissance Art
Features
Themes and Subjects
People
Materials
Perspective
Frescoes
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Differences between Medieval and Renaissance Art
– Architecture
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Differences between Medieval and Renaissance Art
– Sculpture
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Lorenzo de Medici and Patronage
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Lorenzo de Medici and Patronage
What does Botticelli’s Adoration of the Magi tell you about patronage?
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Gutenberg and the Printing Press
How did Gutenberg print books?
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Gutenberg and the Printing Press
Effects of the printing press
•
Plentiful supply of books; more
difficult to censor ideas; lessened
the control of the Catholic Church
over ideas.
•
Books were cheaper.
•
Spread of literacy (reading and
writing).
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More education.
•
The decline of Latin as books were
now printed in the language of the
people (vernacular).
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Spread of new ideas, which led to
the Age of Exploration and the
Reformation.
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Leonardo da Vinci – Painter, Sculptor, Scientist
What are the features of The Virgin of the Rocks?
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Leonardo da Vinci – Painter, Sculptor, Scientist
What are the features of The Last Supper?
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Leonardo da Vinci – Painter, Sculptor, Scientist
What did Leonardo write about in his notebooks?
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Leonardo da Vinci – Painter, Sculptor, Scientist
What are the features of Mona Lisa?
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Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Poet and
Architect
How do these sculptures show Michelangelo’s skill as
a sculptor?
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Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Poet and Architect
What are the main features of this painting
on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?
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Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Poet and Architect
What are the main features of The Last Judgement?
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Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Poet and Architect
Are these features of classical architecture?
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Michelangelo – Sculptor, Painter, Poet and Architect
Historical debate:
Do you agree with Vasari that
Michelangelo was the ‘artist
who surpasses them all’.
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Dürer – Artist of the Northern Renaissance
Patronage
Visits by artists to
Italy
Spread of the
Renaissance to
Northern Europe
Renaissance ideas
along trade routes
Other Artists of the Northern
Renaissance
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Wedding
Pieter Bruegel
Children’s Games
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The printing press
Dürer – Artist of the Northern Renaissance
Dürer as an engraver
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Dürer – Artist of the Northern Renaissance
What do these paintings tell
you about Dürer as a painter?
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Galileo – Scientist, Astronomer,
‘Father of Modern Science’
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Galileo – Scientist, Astronomer,
‘Father of Modern Science’
What were Galileo’s discoveries?
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Galileo – Scientist, Astronomer,
‘Father of Modern Science’
Jupiter
Jupiter
Sun
Earth
Earth
Sun
Ancient Greek and Roman
view of the universe
Copernicus’ view of
the universe
Why did Galileo come into conflict with the Catholic Church?
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Renaissance Medicine
Surgery
William Harvey –
circulation of
blood
Medical
Advances
Vesalius, On the
Structure of the
Human Body
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The printing
press
Observation
experimentation
William Shakespeare – Dramatist and Poet
Why is Shakespeare so famous?
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William Shakespeare – Dramatist and Poet
How were Shakespeare’s plays performed?
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The Influence of the Renaissance
Old ideas questioned in
all aspects of knowledge
Printing press spreads
education and literacy
New ideas led to the Age of
Exploration and the
Reformation (see Year 2)
Influence of the
Renaissance
Developments in
painting, sculpture
and architecture:
perspective, sfumato,
classical architecture
New knowledge discovered in
science, medicine and geography
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