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Renaissance
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Renaissance
When: 1300-1600
What: “rebirth” of arts and
learning
(new movment to celebrate
life and the human spirit)
Where did it begin?
Italy
Why:
1) thriving cities (from
trade)
2) wealthy merchant class
3) classical heritage of
Greece & Rome
Renaissance started in the city-state of
Florence
• Merchants dominated politics
• run by the Medici family
• $ from banking
Renaissance also found roots in Venice
($ from trade) and Rome ($ from the
Church)
MONEY ALLOWED PEOPLE TO
INVEST IN THE ARTS (many
became patrons)
Humanism
• Intellectual movement that
focused on human potential and
achievements
• Appreciated classical traditions
What were the
characteristics of a
Renaissance Man & a
Renaissance Woman?
• Read page 473 and write down
characteristics of each
What were the unique
characteristics of
Renaissance art?
• Artists often portrayed religious
subjects, but they used a realistic style
• Art had more secular, or worldly,
overtones
• Artists used perspective, which shows
three dimensions on a flat surface
Architecture
Filippo Brunelleschi
– best known for the
dome he designed
and completed for
the Cathedral of
Florence
Sculpture
Donatello
– Made sculpture
more realistic by
carving natural
postures and
expressions that
reveal
personality
– David was first
large, freestanding nude
statue of the
Renaissance (late
1460s)
Michelangelo
Buonarroti
(1475-1564)
– one of the greatest
and most important
artists of the
Renaissance
– created sculptures,
paintings, poetry and
architecture for 70
years
– Used a realistic style
when depicting the
human body
La Pieta
David
c. 1501 - 1504
Tomb for Lorenzo de Medici
Sistine Chapel ceiling
St. Peter’s Basilica
Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519)
– “Renaissance Man”
• painter, sculptor,
inventor & scientist
– one of the greatest
Renaissance artists
– portrayed subjects’
personalities,
thoughts, and
feelings
– Writing is clear and
easy to read, but
only if you look at it
in a mirror. No one
knows why he wrote
backwards.
Mona Lisa
c. 1504 - 1506
The Last Supper
Drawings
Raphael Sanzio
– One of his favorite subjects was the Madonna
and child
– Often portrayed their expressions as gentle and
calm
School of Athens (1508)
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Pythagoras
Rafael painted famous
Renaissance figures as classical
philosophers and their students
Ptolemy
Female Artists
• Sofonisba Anguissola
– 1st woman to gain
international
reputation
– Known for her
portraits of her sisters
• Artemisia
Gentileschi
– Trained with her
father and helped
with his work
– Painted pictures of
strong, heroic women
Literature
Renaissance writers produced
works that reflected their time.
Some wrote in the vernacular. In
addition, Renaissance writers
wrote either for self-expression
or to portray the individuality of
their subjects.
What did these writers
do?
• Francesco Petrarch
• Boccaccio
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Vittoria Colonna
Watch the Renaissance
spread…
ENGLAND FLANDERS
GERMANY
FRANCE
ITALY
How did the Renaissance
spread?
Any ideas?
•War
•Trade
•Travel
•Printing Press
(1440-Johann Gutenberg)
The End.