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Renaissance
1300-1600
Essential Question:
How did the Renaissance change people’s view
of the world?
Analyze Picture:
Renaissance
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Rebirth of art and learning
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interest in Greek and Roman ideas
Begin in Italy – Why?
 1. visible reminders of ancient Roman
culture
 2. Wealthy merchants ruled cities
(Florence)
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Became patron of the arts (Medici family)
 Financial support
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3. Lots of trade contact
 4. secular view (church influenced
decline)
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Golden Age of the Arts
Reflected humanist concerns
 Human potential and achievements
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Classical traditions
 Worldly issues (secular) instead religious
 Individualism – emphasized individual
achievements
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Petrarch – early humanists responsible for
reviving the forgotten works
New Artistic Style
Perspective – make scenes 3-dimensial by
making distance objects smaller than
closer objects
 Shading – made objects look round and
real
 Human anatomy – use live models
 Realistic paintings and sculptures
 Artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo,
Raphael, Donatello
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Architecture
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Rejected the gothic style of the Middle Ages in
favor of Greek and Roman arches, domes and
columns
Literature
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Wrote in the vernacular
Self-expression (opinions)
Individuality of their subject
Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince
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Provided a guide to rulers on how to gain and
maintain power (Machiavellian)
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End justifies the means
Use whatever methods necessary to achieve one’s goal
Northern Renaissance
Movement spread from Italy to North
(England, France, Belgium, Netherlands
[Flanders])
 Focused more on religious ideas and
figures than secular
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Northern Artists
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Albrecht Durer – realistic engravings, woodcuts,
landscapes, and self-portraits (German Leo)
Jan and Hubert van Eyck – use oil paints to
portray town and religious scenes
Pieter Bruegel – portrayed scenes of peasant life
Northern Writers
Sir Thomas More – Utopia – describes an
ideal society
 William Shakespeare– poet and playwright
 Miguel Cervantes – Don Quixote – mocks
medieval chivalry
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Renaissance Culture
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Renaissance Man
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The Courtier
Guide book for proper
manners for noble
people
Renaissance Woman
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One who is skilled in
many areas
Da Vinci
Baldassare
Castiglione
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Know classics and be
charming
Inspire art but not
create it
Ideal Woman
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Graceful and kind
Lively but reserve
beautiful
Printing Revolution
Literature reached a large audience due to
the development of the printing press
 1300 – Chinese paper making reaches
Europe
 1400 – Germans developed movable
types
 1456 – Johann Gutenberg invents 1st
printing press
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Using metal movable types he prints the
Gutenberg bible
Printing Brings Change
Books become cheaper and easier to produce
More book available = more people learned to
read and write
Access to new information produced new
ways of thinking
Printing contributes to a religious revolution in
Europe in the 1500s
Renaissance Produced
New attitudes toward culture and learning
 A spirit of adventure and curiosity >> lead
>> exploration
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