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The purpose of this Google Doc is for all students/classes to collaborate to create the notes for
the Renaissance unit. Mr. Klingman started the notes, so you MUST follow the formatting
for the notes when you add information. Each student should add note related to the person
they are assigned for their presentation. A podcast review of the notes will be created by Mr.
Klingman as soon as the notes are finished. The main ideas are already included along with
parts of the notes Mr. Klingman created.
Main Idea
I. Italian Renaissance-Beginning
Details
A. Florence
1. City-State
a. A city with its surrounding
territory forms an independent
state with different laws and ways
of life.
b. There were numerous Italian
City-states.
2. Known as the birthplace of the Italian
Renaissance.
a. renaissance is a French word
meaning rebirth- new beginning
b. Renaissance: The revival of art
and literature under the influence
of classical models in the
14th–16th centuries (1300s-1500s).
c. It was a rebirth of culture
1. Culture is a way of life for people
in an area.
2. Includes religion, education,
food, clothing, and all parts of
living in an area.
3. Produced most of the major artists of
the Renaissance.
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Michelangelo
4. In the 1400s many wealthy bankers
and traders called Florence home.
5. The city-state was controlled by the
Medici family who were patrons of the
arts.
a. Patrons are people who financially
support the arts.
B. Medici Family
C. Humanism
II Art
A. Leonardo da Vinci
1. Professions
2. Art
3. Inventions
B. Michelangelo
1. Early Years
2. Art
3. Sculpture:
4. Architecture
C. Raphael
1. Early Years
2. Famous For
D. Donatello
1. Early Years
2. Famous For
III Architecture
A. Filippo Brunelleschi
B. Leon Alberti
IV. Writing
A. Niccolo Machiavelli
B. Baldassare Castiglione
V. Northern European Renaissance
(Beginning)
A. The Great Plague
1. The plague wiped out about one-third
of the population of Europe.
2. Also knows as the Black Death
3. Was a reason for the late start of
Renaissance in the rest of Europe
compared to Italy.
B. Art
1. Albrecht Durer
a. Early Years
b. Art
c. Engravings
2. Jan Van Eyck
C. Printing Press
1. Johann Gutenberg-German
D. Humanism
1. Difference with Italian
a. Emphasis on religious reform
2. Humanities vs. Humanism vs. Humanists
a. Humanism- an intellectual movement
at the heart of the Renaissance that
focused on education and the classics.
b. Humanities- the subjects of grammar,
rhetoric, poetry, and history
1. Humanities were important to
humanists.
c. Humanists- people who believed in
humanism and the humanities.
3. Desiderius Erasmus
4. Sir Thomas More
5. Francois Rabelais
E. Writers
1. William Shakespeare
2. Miguel de Cervantes
a. Spanish
b. Wrote Don Quixote
1. Pokes fun at knights, and their code
of chivalry.
a. Code of behavior for knights.