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The Renaissance
Chapter 12 & Chapter 15
Italian Renaissance
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Renaissance means “rebirth”, awakening.
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Philosophical and artistic movement
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What does this mean?
Influenced by Greeks and Romans
1350-1550????
Florence
Urbanized society
Age of recovery (from the middle ages)
New view of human beings emerged
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Well-rounded human beings
Achievements
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Government/Politics
Arts
Inventions
Literature
Religion
Renaissance Man
What are the characteristics?
Renaissance Men
Leonardo
da Vinci
Cosimo
De Medici
Lorenzo
De Medici
Niccolo
Machiavelli
Petrarch
Dante
Michelangelo
Jan Van
Eycks
Martin
Luther
Desiderius
Eraumus
John Calvin Henry VII
Leonardo Da Vinci
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Renaissance man
Painter, Sculptor,
architect, inventor,
mathematician
Mona Lisa
Last Supper
DaVinci
Niccolo Machiavelli
•Italian
•1469-1527
•(essay) The Prince:
influential work on
political power
•How to acquire and
keep political power?
•Leader concerned
with power and
political success
•Fear versus love
Michelangelo
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(1475-1564), Italian
painter, sculptor,
architect, and poet
Statue of David
Frescos in Sistine
Chapel
Helped design
St.Peter’s Basilica
Michelangelo
William Shakespeare
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English poet and
playwright
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Protestant Reformation
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1500’s people criticized the Church (Selfwealth, power of popes, priest behaviors)
Lead to a reform movement
Spilt of the Church
Pope Leo X, Tetzel
Martin Luther-Leader of Protestant
Reformation