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Renaissance
re·nais·sance \ ren-ə-’sän(t)s
According to Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary:
1. The transitional movement in Europe between
medieval and modern times beginning in the
14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th
century, and marked by a humanistic revival of
classical influence expressed in a flowering of
the arts and literature and by the beginnings of
modern science.
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2. A movement or period of vigorous artistic and
intellectual activity.
3. Rebirth, Revival
Renaissance
1450 - 1600
People became curious about the
world around them and began to
ask “Why?” and “How?”
This “Rebirth” brought about
advances in science, art, philosophy,
exploration and discovery.
Renaissance
1450 - 1600
“Renaissance curiosity led artists to
dissect cadavers, explorers to travel
the world, clerics and lay people to
question the authority of the church
and Leonardo da Vinci to question
everything,” (Ferris, 99).
Renaissance
1450 - 1600
INDIVIDUALISM: new selfawareness and self-assurance
HUMANISM: importance of having
knowledge and skills in many
different areas (languages, literature,
philosophy)
Renaissance
History
1440
1452
1465
1469
1478
1583 – 1486
1485
1492
1503
1508
1517
1519
1522
1525
1547
1564
1567
1584
1590
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Gutenberg invents printing with movable type
Leonardo da Vinci is born
First printed music
Machiavelli is born
Spanish Inquisition
Da Vinci sketches early helicopter
Boticelli paints The Birth of Venus
Columbus arrives in America
Nostradamus is born
Michelangelo Buonarroti paints the Sistine Chapel
Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses
Cortez conquers Mexico
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is born
Miguel de Cervantes is born
Shakespeare is born
Claudio Monteverdi is born
Sir Walter Raleigh discovers Virginia
Zacharias and Hans Janssen invent the microscope
Renaissance
Art
Mona Lisa,
Leonardo da
Vinci
Renaissance artistic
characteristics
Light and Dimension
Intrigued by the lines and structure
of the human body
Renaissance
Art
The Ambassadors,
Hans Holbein the
Younger
Renaissance artistic
characteristics
Light and Dimension
Intrigued by the lines and structure
of the human body
Renaissance
Art
The Adoration of
the Magi,
Sandro Boticelli
Renaissance artistic
characteristics
Light and Dimension
Intrigued by the lines and structure
of the human body
Renaissance
Architecture
Ca’ d’Oro
Italian Gothic, Venice, 1422-1440
Renaissance
Architecture
Palace of Charles V
Pedro Machuca 1485 - 1550
Renaissance
Architecture
Piazza del Campidoglio
Michelangelo Buonarotti 1538
Renaissance
Sculpture
Stucco Relief
Old Sacristy, San
Lorenzo, Florence,
Donatello
Renaissance
Sculpture
Stemma of San
Michele
Luca Della Robbia
Renaissance
Sculpture
Moses
Michelangelo Buonarotti
Renaissance
Sacred Music
Josquin des Prez
1445? – 1521
Considered by his
contemporaries to be the
greatest composer who had
ever lived
Perfected the technique of
imitative polyphony
Wrote mostly systematic,
controlled religious music
Renaissance
Sacred Music
Giovanni Pierluigi da
Palestrina
1524? – 1594
Assimilated Josquin’s techniques
and adapted them to his own style
Wrote mostly systematic,
controlled religious music
Implied homophonic textures
Renaissance
Sacred Music
Brought about the
protestant reformation
Believed that church
congregations should
be able to participate in
the service through
singing and that some
of the singing should be
in the language of the
congregation
Introduced the Chorale
Martin Luther
1483 – 1546
Renaissance
Secular Music
Secular (Non-religious) music was also composed during the
renaissance. Madrigals were the Popular music of the day.
Madrigals
 Madrigals were sung in the language of the singers.
 Madrigal texts described pastoral scenes and affairs of
the heart
 Word painting and extreme emotional states were
dramatically portrayed
 Madrigals were sung at social gatherings by small
groups
Renaissance
Authors
Miguel de CERVANTES
(1547-1616)
Don Quixote de la Mancha has
been the subject of several
musicalizations including an opera
by Manuel de Falla, a ballet by
Ludwig Minkus and a Broadway
musical by Mitch Leigh.
Renaissance
Authors
William Shakespeare
1564 – 1616
Wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets, and
numerous other poems
Coined the following words and
phrases: accessible, amazement,
assassination, barefaced, bedazzle, belongings,
circumstantial, courtship, critical, dewdrop,
downstairs, employer, epileptic, exposure,
fairyland, fanged, fashionable, frugal, homely,
impartial, ladybird, lament, leapfrog, majestic,
moonbeam, paternal, puke, rant, reclusive,
roadway, sacrificial, schoolboy, silliness, useful,
vulnerable, watchdog, zany
His plays have been the basis for
numerous operas, musicals, and
ballets.