Renaissance

1300-1600 CE Rebirth of art and learning

Started in Italy: Why Thriving cities Wealthy merchant class- Medici

Family of Florence Classical heritage of Rome and

Greece

Classical & Worldly Values Humanism- the focus on human

potential & achievements Secular- non-religious- worldly-

concerned about the here and now Patrons- financially supported

artists “Renaissance Man”-ideal individual

attempted to master every area of study-excel in many fields

Classical & Worldly Values

The Courtier- written by Castiglione-how to be the ideal man

Renaissance Women-expected to inspire art, know the classics and be charming. Isabelle d’Este- powerful woman of

the Renaissance

Revolution in Art

More focus on realism, natural expressions, rich colors, secular themes, and portraits.

Perspective: 3-dimensional appearance (vanishing point)

Leonardo da Vinci

True Renaissance Man Painter Sculptor Inventor Mona Lisa, Last Supper

Self Portrait?

Leonardo da Vinci

Da Vinci-Scientist/Inventor

Michelangelo Buonarroti Renaissance Man-

Painter, sculptor, architect, poet.

Figures: forceful, power, heroic grandeur

Statue of “David”, St. Peter’s Basillica dome, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Michelangelo

Donatello- “David”-Bronze Sculpture

Raphel Madonna & Child School of Athens

Changes in Literature

Use of Vernacular- Native Language (Dante- wrote The Devine Comedy in Latin)

Petrarch-earliest influential humanist-sonnets (14 line poems) to Laura.

Petrarch –Sonnet 134 I find no peace, and have no arms for war,

and fear and hope, and burn and yet I freeze, and fly to heaven, lying on earth's floor, and nothing hold, and all the world I seize.

My jailer opens not, nor locks the door, nor binds me to hear, nor will loose my ties; Love kills me not, nor breaks the chains I wear, nor wants me living, nor will grant me ease.

I have no tongue, and shout; eyeless, I see;I long to perish, and I beg for aid;I love another, and myself I hate.

Weeping I laugh, I feed on misery,by death and life so equally dismayed:for you, my lady, am I in this state.

Machiavelli wrote The Prince-

not what is morally right, but what was politically effective (The ends justify the means)

Duplicity

The Northern RenaissanceChapter 1- Section 2

By late 1400’s Renaissance spread to Northern Europe- (England, France, Germany, Flanders)

Bubonic Plague ended, Hundred Years War (England/France) ended 1453

Countries unified under Monarchs not City-states-They became Patrons of Arts

Artists-Northern RenaissanceDurer, Holbein-German

Van Eyck, -Flemish

Bruegel

Northern Writers Erasmus- Praise

of Folly

Thomas More- Utopia

Erasmus Quotes

•No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)

•Fortune favors the audacious.

•He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.

•He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

•Concealed talent brings no reputation.

- Erasmus

William Shakespeare Greatest

Playwright of all time

English Macbeth, Hamlet,

Romeo & Juliet, King Lear, Midsummer’s Night Dream

English Language Academe accused addiction advertising amazement arouse

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Printing Press

Johann Gutenberg- reinvented (Chinese) moveable type 1440

Invented the Printing Press Gutenberg Bible- 1455-1st book

printed w/ moveable type Made books available and cheap Spread ideas!!!!