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Out of the doom and gloom of
the Dark Ages…
Society is “reborn!”
The Renaissance
You are about to enter a
world where science,
exploration, literature, and
art thrived …
And life was centered on
• The
Individual
Feathers shall raise men even as
they do birds, toward heaven:
that is by letters written with their
quills
--Leonardo da Vinci
Educated men and women hoped to
bring back the life and culture of
Greece and Rome
But, of course, bringing back a golden
age is never possible.
What they created was something totally
new…
And it all begins in…yep, you
guessed it…Northern Italy
Renaissance Timeline
1300’s
The Renaissance
begins in Northern
Italy
The Renaissance begins…
• The Renaissance
began in the citystates of Northern
Italy, especially
Florence, Venice,
Genoa, and Milan.
The Renaissance begins…
• Wealthy merchants, like
the Medici family in
Florence, dominated
politics and society as
well as business
• Cosmio de Medici to the
left
The Renaissance begins…
• Most of these merchants came from poor
families.
• They rose to power thanks to their own hard
work and intelligence.
• They believed they were great because of
their merit as individuals
• Just as these merchants competed with one
another in business, they also competed as
patrons, or sponsors, of the ARTS.
The Renaissance Man and Woman
Is
Born!
The (Ideal) Renaissance Man
• A man should be
– Well educated in the
classics of Greece
and Rome
– Charming, polite,
and witty
– Dance, write poetry,
sing and play music
– Physically graceful
and strong, a skilled
rider, wrestler, and
swordsman
The (Ideal) Renaissance Woman
• But women
were also
expected to
inspire poetry
and art. They
were
expected to
be the object
of great art,
not the artist
themselves
A woman
should
•
•
•
•
•
Be as well
educated as
men
Know the
classics
Paint
Write
Make music
The Early Renaissance
Renaissance Timeline
1300 – 1400 The
Early
Renaissance
The Early Renaissance is marked
by significant achievements in art,
literature, and the celebration of the
INDIVIDUAL.
• Giotto was
the artist
• Dante was
the writer
• Both were
individuals
Giotto
Renaissance Timeline
1304 – Giotto begins
his frescos (paintings
painted directly onto
wet plaster walls)
Giotto
• Giotto di Bondone is
credited with
making a break with
the flat, lifeless style
of the Medieval
artists
• He painted bodies
that looked real and
lifelike, with bodies
and faces that were
rounded.
Before Giotto
Before Giotto
After Giotto
Dante
Renaissance Timeline
1314 – Dante
publishes the
Inferno.
Dante
• Fell in love at the age of
10. She was 8. She
(Beatrice) became his
muse. They became the
model for men and
women of the time
• Dante’s most famous
work, The Divine
Comedy, is a poem in
three parts.
– The Inferno
– Purgatorio
– Paridisio
Dante……..
His masterpiece showed both
the religious ideas of the
Middle Ages and the worldly
concerns of the Renaissance.
It was a philosophical bridge
between Europe’s past and
future.
Dante……
• Wrote in vernacular: everyday
language of his homeland.
• Gave the Italian language prestige.
• Creator of modern Italian.
“Man can do anything, if he
will”
The Quattrocento
Renaissance Timeline
1400 – The
Renaissance bursts
into full bloom. This
period is known as
the Quattrocentro
As the golden age of the Quattrocento
came to be, the merchants of Italy took
pleasure in beautifying the city they
ruled.
Artists like Masaccio, sculptors like Donatello,
and authors like Machiavelli took what the
earlier Renaissance men had done and moved
forward
Donatello
Renaissance Timeline
1400 – 1466 Donatello
carves free-standing
human figures, rejecting
the MA style of only
carving the front.
Donatello
Masaccio
Renaissance Timeline
1425 – Masaccio
developed perspective
in art.
Masaccio
Machiavelli
Renaissance Timeline
1513 – Machiavelli
writes The Prince.
Machiavelli
• In The Prince,
Machiavelli comes up
with the philosophy that
in politics, the ends
justify the means.
• “…for the lion cannot
protect himself from
traps, and the fox
cannot defend himself
from wolves. One must
therefore be a fox to
recognize traps, and a
lion to fight wolves.”
The High Renaissance
Renaissance Timeline
1500 – 1600 The High
Renaissance.
The High Renaissance
• Here we find the
painter Raphael, the
painter and sculptor
Michelangelo, and the
epitome of the
Renaissance
Man…Leonardo da
Vinci
• Renaissance art,
literature, and science
was lifted to
unsurpassed brilliance.
Michelangelo
Renaissance Timeline
1475 – 1564 The life of
Michelangelo
Michelangelo
• Michelangelo became
a painter at 13. At 23,
he carved the “Pieta.”
It was immediately
hailed as a
masterpiece
• In 1504, he completed
another masterpiece,
the statue of the
Biblical warrior and
king…David
It was in 1508 when Michelangelo began his
“greatest” work…the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel
Some of the most famous…
• The Creation of Man
Raphael
Renaissance Timeline
1508 – Raphael perfects
painting with “The
School of Athens”
Raphael paints a Renaissance “Hall of Fame”
And finally…
Leonardo
da
Vinci
Inventor
Scientist
Artist
Renaissance Man
The Renaissance doesn’t just stay in Italy. It
influences all of Europe through thinkers like
Columbus, Shakespeare, Galileo, and
Guttenberg as well as hundreds of artists.
And stands as a shining moment in
history where the individual could
take center stage.