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Start of the Renaissance
Quick Write
■ You have five minutes to write a diary entry
Imagine that you live in Florence, Italy
immediately following the Black Death. You
have survived, but many around you have
not. Describe your environment. How do you
feel? What needs to happen for your society to
recover?
The Renaissance
■ What is it?
■ Why did the Renaissance occur and what
forces drove the new way of thinking in Italy,
and eventually the rest of Europe?
Why? Because…
■ Increased trade with Asia and other regions
■ Growth of large, wealthy city-states in Italy
■ Renewed interest in the classical learning of ancient
Greece and Rome
■ Rise of rich and powerful merchants, who became
patrons of the arts
■ Increased desire for scientific and technical
knowledge
■ Desire to beautify cities
Trade Routes
■ Take out the Trade Route Map and answer
the corresponding questions.
■ How does your information on the Maritime
Revolution connect to this information?
■ What were the advantages that Italy had
during this time?
The revival of trade in Europe helped bring an end
to the Middle Ages & gave rise to the Renaissance
Humanism
■What is it?
■Why is it important?
5 major themes of the
Renaissance
■Individualism
■Secularism
■Classical texts
■Antiquity
■Reform
Rise of City-States
The rise of cities
brought artists
together which led
to new techniques
& styles of art
Increased trade gave rise
Wealthy bankers &
to Italian city-states &
merchants wanted to
a wealthy middle class show off their new status
of bankers & merchants
by commissioning art
The most important Italian city-state was Florence;
In this wealthy trade city, the Renaissance began
Florence was home to
the Medici family, the
wealthiest & most powerful
bankers in Europe
The Medici used their
wealth to commission
art for themselves &
to beautify Florence
Lorenzo de Medici
■How do the ideas presented by
Medici relate to the new ideas which
emerge during the Renaissance?
■What conclusions can you draw
about the time period?
Florence under the Medici
Lorenzo
Cosimo
Guiliano
Medici
Chapel
The Medici
paid tocommissioned
build a massivethis
Lorenzo
de Medici
painting
from
domed
cathedral
for Florence
Botticelli
of the Medici
brothers as the three magi
The Medici
Palace
New styles & techniques of Renaissance art
■Realism & emotion
Sfumato
■Classicism: inspiration from Greece
&
Rome
The
first
nude
paintings
&
■Emphasis
on
individuals
&
interaction
Chiaroscuro
sculptures since the Romans
between people
■Geometric
arrangements
■Perspective
■Using lightGreek
& shadows Renaissance
Renaissance
Artists
Donatello
■ Donatello was the 1st
great sculptor of the
Renaissance
Michelangelo
■ He was a painter,
sculptor, architect,
& poet
Michelangelo sculptures “Pieta”& “David”
are considered masterpieces
Michelangelo’s
Sistine Chapel
which shows
Biblical images
of amazing detail,
power, & beauty
Leonardo da Vinci
■ “Renaissance Man”
His “Last Supper” shows Jesus’ last meeting with
the 12 apostles before the crucifixion; the facial
expressions, detail, emotion made it a masterpiece
Leonardo da Vinci’s
greatest masterpiece
was the “Mona Lisa”
which was known for
its emotion & depth
Leonardo’s Inventions
Raphael
■ “perfected” Renaissance
painting
–improved perspective and
realism
Raphael’s greatest painting was “School of Athens”
which blended Classical figures from Greece & Rome
with important people from the Renaissance
Plato (drawn to
look like Da Vinci)
Aristotle
Raphael
Pythagoras
Michelangelo
Euclid
Raphael’s
“Betrothal
of the Virgin”
Filippo Brunelleschi
■ Florence’s greatest architect
–modeled his designs after the Roman
Pantheon
Dome Comparisons
Il Duomo, Florence
US Capital,
St. Paul’s,
Peter’s,London
Rome
St.
Washington,
D.C.
The
Northern
Renaissance
Quick Write
■Why do you think it is important to
study the works of Shakespeare?
As these ideas spread, this
“Northern Renaissance”
developed its own
characteristics
The Renaissance spread from Italy as scholars &
merchants from other areas visited Italian city-states
The Renaissance in
France was most
known for its unique
architecture
The Renaissance in
England was most
known for literature,
especially the plays of
William Shakespeare
The Renaissance in the Netherlands
was most known for realism in art
Wedding Portrait by Jan Van Eyck
Petrarch v. Shakespeare
■ How would you summarize the main idea of
Petrarch's sonnet?
■ In what ways does Shakespeare's sonnet explore the
theme of the nature of love?
■ Both sonnets focus on the worldly romantic
love. How might the focus of these sonnets have
been different if they had been written during the
Middle Ages? Explain your answers.
Guess if the following
pieces of art (A-J) are:
Renaissance
or
Medieval
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
Question
■If art imitates life, how has life
changed since the Middle Ages? Use
the art to support your response.
What’s Next?
■The Reformation
■Read through pages 381-386
■Create a Cause and Effect Diagram
focused on the Reformation