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The ITALIAN Renaissance
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Renaissance – “__________________________”
– Renewed interest in ______________________ and ___________________ styles and methods in the
Humanities
The Renaissance Beginnings
Why Italy?
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Home to ruins of the ________________________ Empire
Crusades and trade with _______________________ Empire
Trade with ___________________ and ________________________
Rich Italian city-states
___________________ Family (patrons of the Arts)
Humanism
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Theory that emphasizes human _________________________ and ______________________ inquiry and
deemphasizes the importance of religious focus
Study of the ____________________________ (philosophy, art, literature, etc.)
Italian Renaissance: Writers
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Francesco Petrarch
– One of _________ __________________________ and proponent of classical writers
Niccolo Machiavelli
– Diplomat and historian
– Wrote “________________________________________”
– Government should be ___________________ and ______________________ without much
concern for morals
Italian Renaissance: Art
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__________________________ and ____________________________ images were a contrast to “other
worldly” art of Medieval times
Perspective- technique making _______________________
objects ______________________ than those in the foreground
(__________________); create __________________________ of
depth on a ________________________ surface
Italian Renaissance: Artists
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Leonardo da Vinci
- “_____________________________________” (architect,
engineer, painter, sculptor, and scientist)
- science influencing art  realistic figures
- “_____________________________________________” and
“___________________________”
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Michelangelo
- ____________________ ____________________
(at the Vatican)
- sculptures such as “______________________”
“School of Athens” by Raphael
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Raphael
- known for paintings/depictions of ______________________
”Madonna del Granduca”
by Raphael
“Pieta” by Michelangelo
The Northern Renaissance
• Renaissance spreads from ____________________ through the _________________ and
____________________ of Europe (Danube, Rhine)
• New universities
• PRINTING PRESS – _______________________ ________________________ (Germany)
was 1st European to use movable type to print books
- What book do you think was printed the most?
Northern Renaissance: Writers
• Desiderius Erasmus
– Interested in Early _________________________ and
______________/________________ periods
– “_________________ of ___________________” – criticisms of Christian faith
• Thomas More
– “_______________________” (imaginary, ideal society)
– ________________________ for not going along with King Henry VIII’s annulment
request and recognizing Henry as the head of the church
Northern Renaissance: Artists
• Jan and Hubert van Eyck
– Attention to detail and ___________________ expression
– More ___________________ than symbolic
• Peter Brueghel
– Scenes of village __________________ and _______________________
– Used paintings to criticize intolerance
• Albrecht Durer
– Copper engravings and woodcuts