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Chapter 9: Lesson 1 & 2
EQ: How do new ideas influenced the way
people think?
Home Learning: Ch 9. Lesson 1 & 2
Define Vocabulary
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Renaissance (“It Matters Because”)
Republic
Humanism
Vernacular
Burgher
Fresco
Perspective
What was the Renaissance?
• Where did it begin?
–Italy
•Italian City-States
–Urban Societies
–Major Trading Centers
•Secular City-States
•Moved away from life in the
church
•Focuses more on material
objects and enjoying life
•The Renaissance was a time of renewal.
• Renaissance means rebirth
• Europe was recovering from the
Middle Ages and the Plague.
• People had lost their faith in the
church and began to put more focus on
human beings.
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera,
(Allegory of Spring)
• Italy failed to become
united during the Middle
Ages.
•Many independent citystates emerged in Italy
Major Italian
Cities
Genoa
Florence
All of these cities:
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2.
Had access to trade
routes connecting Europe
with Middle Eastern
markets
Were initially
independent city-states
governed as republics
Venice
Milan
Genoa
Had Access
to Trade
Routes
Venice
Sitting on
the
Adriatic, it
attracts
trade from
all over the
world.
Milan
One of the
richest
cities, it
controls
trade
through the
Alps.
Florence
Controlled by the De Medici
Family, who became great
patrons of the arts.
Political Ideas of the Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli
Book: The Prince
Machiavelli was a writer who believed:
“One can make this generalization about men:
they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and
deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy
for profit”
• Machiavelli observed city-state
rulers of his day and produced
guidelines for rulers on how to take
and maintenance power.
• He felt that a ruler should be
willing to do anything to maintain
control without worrying about
“morality”
• Better for a ruler to be feared
than to be loved
• Ruler should be quick and
decisive in decision making
• Ruler keeps power by any means
necessary
• The end justifies the means
• Be good when possible and evil
when necessary
Home Learning: Ch. 9, Lesson 1
Renaissance Society
• Read “Renaissance Society” and complete
the following chart:
Characteristics of Renaissance Society
Nobility
Peasants &
Townspeople
Family and
Marriage
•Humanism was a key intellectual (learning) movement of the
Renaissance
•Goal of humanism is to educate well-rounded citizen.
•Study of the classics (Ancient Greeks/ Romans
• Humanities education: history, public speaking, grammar, logic,
poetry, math, astronomy, and music (liberal arts today!)
• Revived interest in Latin, but many humanist writers wrote in the
vernacular language, local languages
•Education becomes increasingly secular, and less religious!
Printing
Press
• Development of printing affected education, and all aspects
of Renaissance culture.
• Johannes Gutenberg (German) invented the printing press.
• Printing of books increased, thus affecting how knowledge
is distributed.
• 1455 Gutenberg printed the first book—the Bible.
• Growth of reading and knowledge!
Activity: Humanism and Education
Read pg. 170, Renaissance Education. Complete the following table.
How did Humanism affect Renaissance
education?
#1
#2
#3
• The Renaissance produced new ideas that were reflected in
the arts, philosophy, and literature.
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Medieval art and literature focused
on the Church and salvation
Renaissance art focused on individuals and
worldly matters, along with Christianity.
• Renaissance artists welcome the ideas
of ancient Greece and Rome in their art
•Sought to imitate nature
•Wanted viewers to be convinced of the
reality of their subjects
•Focused on human body (human-focus
worldview)
•Sculpture: emphasized realism and
the human form
•Architecture: reached
new heights of design
New Art Techniques
• Masaccios’ The
Tribute of Money
• Frescos: Painting done
on wet plaster became
popular because it gave
depth to the paintings
Perspective
• Raphael’s School of
Athens
– Perspective: use to give
effect of 3-dimensional
depth to 2-dimensional
surfaces
Born in 1475 in a small town near Florence, is
considered to be one of the best Late
Renaissance painters
Michelangelo’s,
David
He created his
masterpiece
David in 1504.
Creation of Eve
Separation of Light and Darkness
Creation of Adam
The Last Judgment
1452-1519
Painter, Sculptor,
Architect,
Engineer
Genius!
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Notebooks
Raphael
Painter
1483-1520
The School of Athens
Pythagoras
Plato and Aristotle
Socrates
Home Learning: Renaissance Art
Chapter 9, Lesson 2
• Read Italian Renaissance Art and answer the
following questions:
1. How did humanism influence the works of Renaissance
artists? Give examples.
2. In what ways did Italian Renaissance artists use the ideas of
the humanist movement in their works?
3. Look at the portrait of the Mona Lisa. Why would
portraiture be a natural development for a Renaissance
culture shaped by humanism? (photo is available using
online book)