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The Renaissance
• The ______________ is the name given to the period from 1300 to 1600.
• This was the time of a “___________” of interest in the classical culture of _________ and __________.
• This __________ period included interest in _______ and ___________:
 _____________
 _____________
 Language
 Composition
 _____________
 _____________
• These subjects are called the ___________ because they are the subjects concerned with __________ and
_________, rather than science.
• The Renaissance started in the _________ centers of northern Italy:
 Genoa
 ______________
 Milan
 _______________
• The city of _____________ was the most powerful of these independent _________________.
• Florence ran their own affairs:
 Collecting ____________
 Supporting their own__________________
• Florence was a very _____________ city because its merchants and bankers
• It controlled the trade routes between Europe and Asia in both ______________ and _______________.
• By 1300’s Florence was the _____________ center of Europe
• During the Hundred Years’ War between France and England, the ___________ of both countries were
______ with ______________ from the Florentine banks.
• Success in business depended on the merchant’s own ________________.
• A merchant’s social position was ____________________.
• The merchants believed that they were great because of their ______________ as individuals.
Patrons
• Very _____________ people who gave money and ________ to the ____________ were called _______.
• The most famous of these was Lorenzo de __________.
• Many wealthy ___________ took interest in Greek and Roman ideas:
 They _____________ ancient art
 Placed art in their own _______________
for scholars to study.
• _____________, 1304-1374, was an Italian poet
• He led the early development of ____________ by:
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
Studying ancient Roman _______________
Copying its _____________ in his own writings.
• Giotto di ______________ developed the technique of painting on ___________ known as ___________
painting.
• His figures looked __________ and _____________.
• Dante _______________ write The Divine Comedy.
• It is full of comments on the ___________ events of Dante’s time.
• Dante’s works showed both the ___________ ideas of the Middle Ages and the _____________ concerns of
the Renaissance.
• Dante was the first poet to write in the ____________, _____________________ of the people.
• Scholars such as ____________ who studied the classical texts of Greece and Rome were called
_____________.
• In the Renaissance, people believed that ________ should be lived to the _____________ following the
examples of Greece and Rome.
• The people of the Renaissance were interested in these ____________________ that made one person
different from all others.
• The ideal Renaissance person was:
 Educated
 ________________
 Charming
 Artistically ____________
• They valued _________________ and praised people who were ______________ to society.
Women
• Upper class women were as well _____________ as the men.
• They were expected to make use of their education at home
 learning ________________
 _______________
 music
 ____________________ guests
 being a credit to their husbands
graciously
• Women were not expected to take part in _____________ life.
• They were better ______________ than the women of the Middle Ages.
• Women of the Renaissance had less __________, economic, and social ______________ than the women of
the Middle Ages.
New Values of the Renaissance
•
The characteristics that set the Renaissance apart from the Middle Ages include:
 The celebration of individuals; artists wanted to be known and remembered as _____________. Two
new art forms were developed.
 ______________ painting
 autobiography
 Love of _______________ learning
 _______________ culture
 _______________ culture
 Enjoyment of worldly ____________________.
• Renaissance _______________ suggested that a person might love and enjoy these new art forms without
___________ God.
Medici Family
• The ______________ family made its fortune in __________ and ________________.
• Cosimo Medici ________________ Florence from 1434 to 1464.
• _____________ ruled behind the scenes.
• He used his personal _________________ to
 ______________ the city
 establish the first free public______________
• In 1469, Cosimo’s grandson, age 21, named _____________ took over the behind the scenes power of
Florence.
• Lorenzo rules with __________________ power, and became know as Lorenzo the _____________.
• Lorenzo ruled from 1469 until his death in 1492.
• Two years after Lorenzo’s death, King ____________ of _____________ invaded Italy and attacked
Florence.
• For the next two generations France and Spain _________ _______________ all along the Italian peninsula.
Machiavelli
• The political climate of the Renaissance was one of intense _____________ for power.
• With French and Spanish attacks throughout Italy, diplomacy and war became the keys to ___________.
• Niccoli _________________ was a diplomat.
• He tried to understand why one ruler _____________ while another ______________.
• In 1513, he wrote a book of advice for rulers called ____ _______________.
• It was a book about ______________.
• Machiavelli believed that most people were ________, fickle, and _____________.
• In the _________ for ___________ a ruler should not be concerned with what ____________ right, but what
was _____________ effective.
• __________ acts were __________ if they served the ___________ of the ____________
• The ___________ justified the ____________.
Renaissance Art
Raphael
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
Donatello
• Renaissance __________ often used themes form ancient Rome and Greece, ___________ themes, and
people busy with their _________________.
•
__________ major ___________ of Renaissance art were:
 Renaissance artists tried to show each _____________ character and personality in a
____________way.
 The paintings had _____________ and _____________
 In about 1300, an Italian painter Masaccio was the first to use ___________ in his paintings.
• Four geniuses of Renaissance art were ____________, Michelangelo, Leonardo _________, and Donatello.
• _____________ combined religious art with a Renaissance spirit
• He is famous for his _____________ paintings and the Painting of the School of _____________.
School of Athens
• _____________ was a painter, poet, _____________, and sculptor.
• He considered himself a _______________.
• He became famous because of a statue he made at the age of 23 showing ___________ holding the body of
Jesus after the _________________.
• The statue is called the ____________
• Pope ______________ asked _____________ to decorate the ceiling of the ____________ in the
_________, Headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.
• It took Michelangelo _________ years to decorate the ceiling with ___________; watercolor paintings on
fresh _____________.
• Leonardo ___________ painted the __________ and the _____________.
• He is regarded as a genius because of his ___________ mind and curiosity.
• He is __________ corpses to learn about _______ and _______ structure.
• He drew __________ for __________machines, (invented by Wright brothers in 1908), ___________,
(invented in US in 1891), ___________, (invented in France in 1785), and a machine __________ (invented
in the US in 1861).
• ___________ revived a classical form in his statue _________.
• This ___________ was the first European sculpture of a large, free-standing nude since ancient times.
• Sculpture was made more ______________ by carving natural postures and expressions that reveal
___________.
Northern Renaissance
• ___________ helped __________ the Renaissance ________ from Italy to France, Flanders, Belgium, and
the Netherlands.
• In 1528, ______________ of France employed many Italian artists, decorated, and architects to rebuild his
castle at ___________________ bringing; more ideas north from Italy.
• Sir ______________ of England also ___________the politics, society, and customs of the times.
• His book written in 1516 was called __________ and described and ideal, peaceful society.
Johann Gutenberg
Printing Press
• Johann ______________ is credited for inventing the ______________ type printing ___________.
• This printing press printed the first book, a copy of the ___________.
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The invention of the ___________ type printing ________ had three main effects:
 ____________ became ___________, so more people could afford to buy them.
 more people ________________ books
 more people _______________ to read
 Bookmaking became ______________; so many books could be published.
 People began to print books on ____________ other than religion
 Books were published in the ____________, the language of the common people, rather than
Latin.
 Since many books were printed ___________ and ___________, scholars could easily
____________ their information with one another.
Famous Writers of the Renaissance
Cervantes
Shakespeare
• ____________, the greatest Spanish writer, who write a book in 1605 called Don ________________.
• This book ___________ the medieval code of __________.
• William _______________ 1564-1616, was an English actor, poet, and playwright.
• His characters were complex and believable.
• His plays include: Julius ___________, Anthony and Cleopatra, ___________, Romeo and Juliet, etc.
Artists of the Northern Renaissance
Jan Van Eyck
Rembrandt
• Artists of the ____________ Renaissance were famous for precise, ___________ detail and the use of
________ and _________________.
• Jan ___________, the inventor of the _______ painting technique.
• Oil painting was a new technique that allowed the artists to work more slowly, to create and blend new
colors and show ________________ because it dried slowly.
• He also painted the ___________________ utilizing this technique.
• Rembrandt, who is the most well known of the _________ painters because of his expert use of _________
an ______________.
• The _____________ belief in the worth and dignity of the individual played a key role in the rise of
_____________ ideas!