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Renaissance
rebirth in interest in arts & learning
 started in northern italy
 spread throughout Europe
relied on Greek and Roman architecture and
ideas
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Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance Economics
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Profit-making became
more important than
Church doctrine
To overcome guilt, profitmakers indulged in
philanthropy – support
artists
Renaissance Politics
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Niccolo Machiavelli
(1469-1527)
-- wrote “The Prince”
Argued that the goal of
the prince must be power
Fear is a better motivator
than affection
Do whatever it takes to
gain and keep power
Renaissance Art
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portraits painted during
this time focused on the
individual
Growing humanism and
secularism in a Christian
context
Rewards for good living
will came in this life,
don’t have to wait for
heaven
Renaissance Art and Architecture
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Status of artist is
elevated to cultural
hero
Renaissance art
stressed
proportion, balance
and harmony
many nudes
School of Athens - Rafael
Renaissance Art and Architecture
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Leonardo Da Vinci
(1452-1519)
True Renaissance Man
Scientist, inventor,
engineer and
naturalist
Dissected Corpses
Short attention span
Renaissance Art and Architecture
(cont)
Mona
Lisa
Leonardo
da Vinci
Renaissance Art and Architecture
Michelangelo
Ceiling
Sistine
Chapel
of the
-Example
painting
on the
ceiling
-religious
scenes
Sistine Chapel
Sistine Chapel
David
Renaissance Education and
Philosophy
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A true liberal education
Humanist education for
women
Love for the study of
history most of all
Petrarch (1304-1374): the
Father of Italian
Renaissance humanism
warm up 12 – 8 - 10
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match the time period with the event
Middle Ages
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Renaissance Ancient Rome
Ancient Greece
Plague
Democracy
Fighting between Christians and
Muslim Turks
Augustus and peace
Florence and painting
The Office of the Pope during the
Renaissance
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Pope lost influence
over European nationstates
Decline in moral
prestige and leadership
of the Pope
Popes became patrons
of Renaissance art
Spread of Humanism to the Rest of
Europe
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Gutenberg’s printing press
Explosion of printed
materials
--By 1500, 40,000 titles
printed and between 8-10
million copies
The impact of movabletype printing presses:
research and literacy
increased
Spread of Humanism to the Rest of
Europe
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William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
--Globe Theater
His history plays were
the most popular at the
time
Macbeth: ambition
Hamlet: individualism
created many new words
and phrases
Reformation
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Martin Luther
-angry about the selling of indulgence$
-an indulgence was a way to pay $$ to be
released from the punishment due to a sin
-nailed his 95 theses to the church door
-started Protestant Reformation
-encouraged Catholics to reform their own
church
Other splits from the Church
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John Calvin
-preached the idea of Predestination
-God has already determined your fate
-powerful movement in the US colonies
Other splits from the Church
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Henry VIII & the English Reformation
-British king
-wanted a male heir to inherit the throne
when he died
-asked Pope for an annulment when his wife
didn’t bear him a son so he could marry
someone else
-Pope said “NO” so Henry split from the
church to make his own rules and get a
divorce