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1. An early Renaissance humanist, poet, and
scholar. Assembled a library of Greek and
Roman documents.
2. An intellectual movement that emphasized
worldly subjects.
3. Wrote The Prince
4. A family of supporters of the arts in
Florence.
a. Vasari b.Humanism c. Petrarch d. Romanticism
e. Medici
f. Raphael
g. Machiavelli
5.Financial supporter of the arts._______
Renaissance
 1300-1600
 Causes?
 Plague/Constant War and lack of enjoyment
of life.
 Decline of Church’s political influence
 Move to urban areas
Characteristics
 Rebirth of classical
societies in Italy
 Urban and secular
 Humanism, the
potential of human
beings
Italy and Urban Growth
 Italy unaffected by Hundred Years War
 Large independent/merchant city-states
in N. Italy bc of Crusades
 Urban, ideas spread
 Interest in Roman and Greek
history/accomplishments
Italian City States
 Milan, Venice and
Florence were the
most influential
because of what?
 Why was there
location critical to
their success?
Review
 The Renaissance
was characterized
by:
 Urban/Secular
 Recovery from 1300’s
 Humanism
Florence
 Cultural center of
Renaissance
 The Medici ruled and were
patrons of the arts.
 Political power was a
newfound pastime in Italy
Italian Wars 1494-1530’s
 Wealth eventually led to
war between Italians,
Spanish, and French for
control of trade.
 Led to spread of
Renaissance ideas
northwards.
Art in the Renaissance
 Looked to capture human
potential (realism)
 Two areas of concentration:
Perspective/light, and
anatomy. Why such attention
to detail?
 New Religious (Contemporary)
 Ex: fresco by Masaccio
Classical Values
 Humanism-human achievements/potential
 Education in which areas?
 History, philosophy, grammar, math, etc.
 Liberal Studies allowed people to reach full
intellectual/human potential. “Virtue and Wisdom”
 Use of vernacular- Canterbury Tales by
Chaucer was 1st example.
 How is this different than the MA’s?
Middle Ages Example
Perspective
 Rediscovered the technique (3D)
 Parallel lines stretch to a point on the
horizon where they meet.
Art
 Religious tactics/topics
incorporated with realism
 Portraits, human body
 David by Donatello
High Renaissance (14901520) Masters
 During this time, unbelievable
accomplishments were reached by
Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
These three greats were all in the same
cities at the same time competing against
each other.
Michelangelo
 Painter, sculptor,
architect, poet etc.
 Designed dome St.
Peters
 Sistine Chapel
 David/detail on
sculpture
Sistine Chapel
 http://www.habeeb.com/sistine.chapel.vat
ican.html
Leonardo Da Vinci
 Renaissance man
 Mona Lisa and Last Supper
 Details/Humanist
Raphael
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Influenced by Leonardo/Michelangelo
Worked in Rome for Pope
School of Athens
Realism is his trademark
Machiavelli
 Wrote “The Prince” which discussed new
political dealings.
 For the sake of society the Prince must
make hard, amoral, SECULAR decisions.
 Huge influence on following leaders and
set tone for new nobility
 Increased power, military obligations,
become LEARNED
13.2 Northern Renaissance
Northern Renaissance
 Diffusion w/trade, war, and travel
 Religious
 What helped spread new ideas?
Printing Press
 SPREAD NEW IDEAS TO MORE
PEOPLE
 Johann Gutenberg 1440 invents movable
type.
 Gutenberg Bible 1455 (1st)
 Everyday people/vernacular
 Religious implications?
Flanders
 Artistic center of
Northern Europe
 Oil Based Paints
 Pieter Bruegel at
height of Flemish
painting
 different than Italian
Spread of Art
 High Ren. In north coincides with the
South mainly due to:
 Albrecht Durer
 Highly influential in
Germany
Christian Humanists
 Desiderius Erasmus from Holland
- “The Praise of Folly”
-Christianity of heart and critical of
church corruption.
-Bible study to improve society
-scorned those who…“Don’t want the holy scriptures to
be read in translation by the unlearned…as if the chief
strength of the Christian religion lay in people’s
ignorance of it.”
Humanist Action
 Thomas More from
England
 Utopia (“No place”)
social commentary
 IMPROVE SOCIETY
 Stressed education
and classical learning
to bring about moral
and religious reform.
Shakespeare
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1564 Stratford-upon-Avon
Human flaws in most plays
Classics
“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in
reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and
moving, how express and admirable in action,
how like an angel in apprehension, how like a
god!” Hamlet