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The Renaissance
(1350-1600)
classical
 anything that has to do
with ancient Greece
and Rome
Renaissance
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means “rebirth”
rebirth of classical culture
great interest in art and learning
began in northern Italy (Florence)
humanists
 Renaissance
scholars
 believed that
humans have
great potential
Renaissance Man
 a man who excelled in
many areas
 the classics, art,
politics, combat
Florence
 city in northern
Italy
 center of
industry in the
early
Renaissance:
– textiles
– banking
Medici
 Florentine family
 wealthy bankers who
financed the textile
industry
 patrons of much of the
art of the early
Renaissance
DaVinci
Mona Lisa
-Davinci
Who is depicted in the Mona Lisa?
http://library.thinkquest.org/13681/da
ta/link2.htm
Dr. Lillian Schwartz
Facial features
Last Supper
-Davinci
La Pieta`
-Michelangelo
David
-Michelangelo
17ft tall marble statue
last judgment
-Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel
-Michelangelo
School of Athens
-Raphael
Renaissance Art
 rebirth of classical-style sculpture and architecture
 Most important artists:
– Leonardo da Vinci
 Renaissance Man
 Mona Lisa, Last Supper
– Michelangelo
 sculptor, painter, architect
 Pietà, David, Sistine Chapel ceiling
– Raphael
 painter
 The School of Athens
Perspective
 Showing three dimensions on a flat surface.
A point of view
Renaissance Literature
 Most important writers:
– Niccolò Machiavelli
 Italian writer
 The Prince ( how to use
power effectively)
– William Shakespeare
 English playwright and poet
 Hamlet, Julius Caesar,
Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth,
– Dante’
 Wrote “The Divine
Comedy”
 in the vernacular of Italy
 Vernacular-The standard native language of
a country.
printing press
 moveable-type version
invented by Johannes
Gutenberg.
 contributed to the
spread of the ideas of
the Renaissance and
Reformation
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