Download 17.1 Guided Reading Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance

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17.1 Guided Reading
Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance (471-477)
Italy's Advantage
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What did the Renaissance lead to?
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What three advantages made Italy the birthplace of the Renaissance?
City States
3.
Why was northern Italy urban while the rest of Europe was mostly rural?
4.
Why are cities ideal for breeding an intellectual revolution?
5.
What effects did the bubonic plague have?
Merchants and the Medici
6.
What was the result when the successful merchants used their wits?
7.
How did Cosimo de Medici become a dictator of Florence for thirty years?
Looking to Greece and Rome
8.
How did Renaissance scholars return to the learning of the Greeks and Romans?
Classical and Worldly
Values Classics Lead to
Humanism
Ideas in the Middle Ages
New Renaissance Ideas
All texts agree with Christian teaching
9.
Demonstrated piety by wearing rough clothes and
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eating plain food
11.
Why did church leaders and wealthy merchants support the arts?
World Studies Renaissance Men
Should master almost every area of study
Goal = "universal man" or "Renaissance man"
Should be
13.
Should be able to:
14.
Renaissance Women
Should know:
12 .
Inspire art but not create it
Well educated
Little influence in:
15.
The Renaissance Revolutionizes Art
16.
What did medieval artists use as subjects?
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What style did Renaissance artists use?
Realistic Painting and Sculpture
18.
What did realistic portraits reveal?
19.
Who are two artists who used realistic style?
20.
What was each artist known for?
a. Leonardo da Vinci
b. Raphael Sanzio
c. Sofonisba Anguissola
d. Artemisia Gentileschi
Renaissance Writers Change Literature
21.
What trends did Renaissance writers begin that modern writers still use today?
22.
What did each author write about?
a. Francesco Petrarch
b. Boccaccio
c. Niccolo Machiavelli
d. Vittoria Colonna