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Renaissance: The Rebirth of
Europe
Warm-Up
Renaissance Map Quiz – Bodies of Water
1. Check Map.
2. Complete Map Quiz
Vocabulary
• 1. Crusades – military expeditions (big moving
armies) to the Holy Land.
• 2. Black Death – a deadly disease killing 1/3rd of
Europeans.
• 3. Aristocrats – wealthy people who gained
money and power by owning businesses.
• 4. Patrons – wealthy people who supported
artists of the Renaissance.
• 5. Medici – the wealthiest and most power ruling
family of Florence and patrons of the arts.
Essential Questions
• 1. What key historical events lead to the
Renaissance? How?
• 2. How did the Italian Peninsula’s
geography (land and or location) lead to
the Renaissance originating there?
• 3. How did the Renaissance Aristocrats’
lives differ with the Medieval Feudal
Lords?
• 4. How impactful were Patrons for the
Renaissance movement?
Europeans Encounter new Cultures
• The Crusades – military
expeditions to the Holy
Land - had great influence
on life in Western Europe.
• The long distances
traveled by the Crusaders
opened up trade routes,
connecting Western
Europeans with people of
southwestern Asia and
North Africa.
• This increased contact
helped Europeans
rediscover the ideas and
achievements of the
ancient Greeks and
Romans preserved by the
Church and Muslim
scholars.
The Rebirth of Europe
• Over time, this interest in
the ancient world sparked
a new era of creativity
and learning in Western
Europe.
• This cultural era, which
lasted from about 1350 –
early 1600s A.D., is called
the Renaissance or the
rebirth of Greek and
Roman ideas.
The Italian City-States
• The Renaissance began on
the Italian Peninsula in the
mid 1300s.
• When the Black Death
slowly decreased in the 15th
century, the population in
Europe began to grow. A
new middle class emerged
—bankers, merchants and
tradespeople had a new
market for their services.
• Northern city-states were
centers of banking, trade,
and manufacturing.
– Trade – Venice and Genoa
– Banking – Florence
Italian Aristocrats – A changing
view of the world
•
The wealthy businesspeople who lived in
these city-states were members of a new
class of aristocrats.
•
Unlike the nobles of the feudal system, these
aristocrats lived in cities, and their wealth
came from money and goods rather than
from the lands they owned.
•
Wealthy Europeans began to turn their
attention to material comforts of life. People
became wealthier and had more than enough
money to spend. They began to build larger
houses; buy more expensive clothes, food,
and jewelry; and get interested in art and
literature.
•
The middle class population also had more
free time, which they spent learning foreign
languages, reading, playing musical
instruments and studying other things of
interest.
Learning and the
arts flourish
Wealthy citizens were
proud of their city-states
and often became
generous patrons.
A patron gave artists and
scholars money and places
to live and work.
They hired architects and
designers to improve local
churches, to design grand
new buildings, and to
create public sculptures
and fountains.
As one Italian city-state
made additions and
improvements, others
competed to outdo it.
Patrons compete for their city-state
• As part of the
competition to improve
the appearance and
status of their individual
city-states, patrons
wanted to attract the
brightest and bestknown scholars and
poets of the time.
• Patrons believed that
the contributions of
these individuals would,
in turn, add to the
greatness of their citystates and attract more
wealth.
Patrons – The Medici Family
Many powerful people, Popes, Kings, Queens, and other Nobles and Aristocrats were Patrons of the
Arts. Among the most famous patrons of the Renaissance were the Medici. They were a wealthy
family of bankers and merchants. In fact, they were the most powerful leaders of Florence from the
early 1400s until the 1700s.
The Medici family became so powerful that the family included famous princes and dukes, two queens,
and four popes. Throughout the 1400s and 1500s, the Medici supported many famous artists including
Botticelli, Michelangelo and Raphael. Today. Florence is still filled with important works of art made
possible by the Medici.
New Subject Matters
• Most medieval art was
based on religious
subjects.
• Painters and sculptors of
the early Renaissance
created religious art too,
but they also began to
depict other subjects.
• Some made portraits for
wealthy patrons – others
created works showing
historical scenes or
mythological stories.
New Methods
• During the Renaissance,
artists began to use a
technique called linear
perspective.
• Linear perspective is a
system of using lines to
create the illusion of
depth and distance.
• Perspective lines move
toward a single point in
the distance, giving a
picture depth.
The Renaissance Spreads
• As the Renaissance
moved into the 1500s, it
began to spread
throughout Western
Europe.
• France, England, and the
Netherlands became
centers for these new
ideas.
• Many kings and queens
also supported
Renaissance artists ideas,
and new beliefs.
Review
• 1. What key historical events lead to the
Renaissance? How?
• 2. How did the Italian Peninsula’s geography
(land and or location) lead to the
Renaissance originating there?
• 3. How did the Renaissance Aristocrats’ lives
differ with the Medieval Feudal Lords?
• 4. How impactful were Patrons for the
Renaissance movement?
Review
• Who? – any important individuals involved
• What? – what are some of the new ideas,
techniques, etc.
• When? - timeframe
• Where? – places involved
• Why? – what was going on that allowed for the
Crusades to begin?
• How? – what people, events,etc., allowed for the
Renaissance to be what it was?
• 1. Get out one piece of loose-leaf notebook
paper. Fold in half long way. Left side title –
what I know. Right side title – Most
important.
• 2. Close notebook and place all materials
under your desk out of the way.
• 3. List 5 items you learned from today’s
lesson.
• 1. Rotate around the class. When I tell you to
stop, discuss with your neighbors what you all
have learned.
• 2. Add additional information to your list on
the left side. Circle of underline common
knowledge.
• 3. Repeat.
• 1. ON the other side of your paper – right side
– list the three most important
vocabulary/facts/phrases from today’s lesson.
• 2. Rotate around the room again. Stop.
Share your ideas with a neighbor. Add any
additional facts which you feel.
Closure
•Write a story using the
vocabulary/facts/phra
ses from your most
important list.