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Ideas & Art of the Renaissance
Humanism
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Study of the classics, the literary works ancient Greece
& Rome.
Humanist studied: grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral
philosophy, and history
Petrarch, Called the father of Italian Renaissance
Humanism, began emphasis on using pure classic Latin
Humanist believed:
Duty to life active civic life
Put study of humanities to state’s service
Vernacular :
(language spoken in their regions)
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Dante and Chaucer helped
make vernacular literature
more popular with their
masterpieces Divine Comedy
and the Canterbury Tales
Christine de Pizan:
Frenchwoman known for her
written works to defend
women’s education
Renaissance Education
Humanists believed education could dramatically
change human beings
 They wrote books and opened schools based on their
ideas
 Focused education on liberal studies:
History, moral philosophy, eloquence, grammar/logic
Poetry, mathematics, astronomy, and Music
Wanted to produce individuals who followed wisdom and
virtue
 Also focused on physical education: Javelin throwing,
archery and dancing
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Renaissance Education
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Females are absent from humanist schools
Any who did attend only taught: some history,
riding, dance, sing, play the lute and appreciate
poetry
Also taught religion and morals for the creation of
Christian ladies and good wives and mothers
Not to learn math or rhetoric
Italian Renaissance Art
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Artist sought to imitate nature
Frescos by Masaccio are first masterpieces of Early
Renaissance
Fresco: is painting done on fresh, wet plaster wit waterbased paints, gave depth, and figures came to life
Two major developments took place
Technical side of painting, focusing perspective space
and light, through geometry
Investigation of movement and human anatomy
(portray the individual)
Leo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Mastered realistic painting Italy’s best painter
Known for virgin Mary
painting
Accomplished painter,
sculptor and architect
Created idealized forms
that captured the
perfection of nature and
the individual
Painted the ceiling of the
Sistine chapel
Depicted the ideal type of
human being with perfect
proportions
Known for his frescos in
Vatican Palace
Northern Artistic Renaissance
Jan van Eyck first to perfect the technique of oil
painting
With his oil paints he created striking realism
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Albrecht Durer- went to Italy twice and learned
about the laws of perspective
He blended the northern artist styles with the Italian
artists theories, with carful examination of the
human form
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