Renaissance

What is the Renaissance?

Humanism and the Printing Press

JOHANNES GUTENBERG 1455

FRANCESCO PETRARCH

Machiavelli’s The Prince

• “Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.”

• Machiavelli in The Prince

Where and Why

• Venice• Milan• Rome (Papal States)• Florence• Naples

The Renaissance Spreads North

ERASMUS

COMPARING RENAISSANCE

ITALIAN

• INSPIRED BY ROMAN RUINS

• IDEAL FORMS

NORTHERN

• INSPIRED BY NATURE

• OBSERVATION/REALITY

Accomplishments of the Renaissance (443; 446-47)

NAME FIELD ACCOMPLISHMENT

Donatello Sculptor “David”; 1st Renaissance sculptor

Raphael

Leonardo da Vinci

Michelangelo

Sir Thomas More

William Shakespeare

Christine de Pisan

Jan van Eyck

Donatello

RaphaelSchool of AthensPainter, architect

Leonardo

“The Last Supper,” “The Mona Lisa”Painter, architect, engineer, etc.

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel, “Pieta,” “David”Painter, sculptor, architect, poet

Sir Thomas More“Utopian”Author, Churchman

William Shakespeare

100s of plays and sonnetsPlaywright, author

Christine de Pisa“City of Women,”author

Jan van EyckDeveloped “Flemish School”painter