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The Renaissance
1300s – 1600s
Basic Timeline of Western Europe
Hundred Years’ War
(1337-1453
Fall of Rome
Black Death
(1347-1352)
Reign of
Charlemagne
(800-824)
Europe is “reborn”
• Fall of Rome
Dark Ages
Black Death…
• Death + Destruction + Disease = Bad
• But culture & the arts are revived …starting in
Italy
• Let the Golden Age Begin
Political
Popes vs. Kings
End of feudalism
**Turning Point**
Age of
Transition
&
Change
Economic
New middle class
More trade and $
Social
Renaissance &
Reformation
Medieval Concerns
vs.
(Gives way to)
Renaissance
Faith
1. Reason
Authority (acceptance)
2. Questioning
Tradition
3.Experiment/Inquire
Afterlife
4. Here and now
Spiritual
5. Human beings
(mind & body)
Why Italy?
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Location! Location! Location!
Cities survived the Middle Ages
Renaissance starts in Florence
Ports on the Mediterranean Sea allowed for trade
Money from the merchant class spent loads of
money supporting the arts
– Like the Medicis!!
– Lorenzo de Medici aka Lorenzo the Magnificent was
a huge patron of the arts
• Very powerful family…freakishly powerful!
The Renaissance
1. Location of Venice between Western
Europe and Middle East and Asian
markets
2. Renaissance means REBIRTH
3. People interested in a wide variety of
things (secular = worldly, not religious)
4. Humanism = importance of the
INDIVIDUAL
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What Was the Renaissance?
• The Renaissance was a time of creativity and
change in many areas –political, social,
economic, and cultural. Perhaps most important,
however, were the changes that took place in the
way people viewed themselves and their world.
• Renaissance thinkers explored the human
experience in the here and now. They
emphasized individual achievement.
• The Renaissance ideal was the person with talent
in many fields.
• Leonardo DaVinci IS CONSIDERED BY
MANY TO BE THE RENAISSANCE MAN!
______ism
• Words that end in “ism” can often be broken
down and understood by replacing the “ism”
with the following:
A belief in (or emphasis on ) ________ (the
remaining word)
Example = materialism – “a belief in” or
emphasis on material objects, comforts and/or
considerations. Along with a disinterest or
rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural
values
Global 9 -The RENAISSANCE
Consider:
What is your “world view”?
In other words, how do you
see the world today in
terms of an “…ism”
(a belief in …)
Global 9 –Introduction to the RENAISSANCE
Write some thoughts down on paper and be
prepared to present and defend them!
Individualism?
Secularism? (a.k.a materialism)
Classicism? (“old school” is cool)
HUMANISM?
An “___ism” can be defined as “a
belief in___________:
Individualism = belief in the power of the
individual mind and body
Secularism (a.k.a materialism) = pertaining to
worldly or non-religious matters
Classicism? (“old school” is cool) = belief or
admiration of Greco-Roman culture
HUMANISM = philosophical movement
during the Renaissance that stressed life on
Earth, and the quality of being human.
Rejected living only for the afterlife of
Christianity (Middle Ages view).
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Humanism
At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was an
intellectual movement known as humanism.
Humanism was based on the study of classical
culture and focused on worldly subjects rather than
on religious issues.
Humanists studied the humanities, the subjects
taught in ancient Greece and Rome. They believed
that education should stimulate creativity.
Paleolithic art from the cave of
Lascaux, France
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Renaissance Artists and Writers Explored
New Themes and Techniques
WRITERS
PAINTERS
Wrote self-help books to
help ambitious men and
women rise in the
Renaissance world
Developed realistic style
Learned rules of perspective
Used shading to make objects
look round and real
Studied human anatomy
Used live models
ARCHITECTS
Rejected Gothic style
Adopted columns, domes,
and arches that had been
favored by the Greeks and
Romans
Italy WAS
once
“Glorious”
Roman
Empire
Italian citystates
(Venice)
survived the
Middle
Ages
Italian
merchants
became
PATRONS
of the arts
HUMANISM
•Study of classics
(Greco-Roman)
•Study of WORLDY
subjects
•Petrarch =
Influential writer
Golden Age of the Arts
•Learned from classical
arts
•Use of perspective
•Artists = Michelangelo,
DaVinci, Botticelli
•Writers = Dante,
Machiavelli
Spreads NORTH in
Europe
•Humanists = More
•Artists = Dürer,
Breugal
•Writers = Chaucer.
Shakespeare,
Cervantes
The Renaissance in Western Europe
Renaissance
figure
Dante
Sir Thomas More
Machiavelli
DaVinci
Michelangelo
Botticelli
Chaucer
Copernicus
Galileo
Cervantes
Petrarch
Raphael
Castiglione
Durer
Van Eyck
Bruegal
Shakespeare
Discipline
(area of work)
Examples / Subject matter
(titles and/or names)
Renaissance IDEALS
Classicism
The Birth of Venus
(c. 1485-86)
School of Athens
Albrecht Dürer
– self-portrait
Individualism
The Death of Orpheus
(son of the God Apollo)
Classicism
Secularism
Individualism
& Secularism
The Italian Renaissance
The Renaissance: Was it a Thing?
- Crash Course World History
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