Spread of the Renaissance

Italy- 1350

Spain

German States

France

England

1485

1400

1494

1492

Italy-1350

German States 1400

England-1485

Spain-1492

France- 1494

Italian Renaissance• It all began in Italy.

1. Petrarch started to rediscover the Classics of Ancient Rome centered in Italy.

2. City-states competed with one another for the best artists and universities.

3. Italian merchants were wealthy and could spend their extra cash on art.

Italian Renaissance

• Italy’s Renaissance has the most memorable art:– Michelangelo– Leonardo da

Vinci– Sandro Botticelli– Raphael da

Urbino– Donatello di

Niccolo

German Renaissance

• German painting is combination of Renaissance realism and German religious feeling and the need to impress the German nobles.

• The Reformation plays the most central role in the German states.

English Renaissance

• The best evidence of the Renaissance in England are the works of William Shakespeare.

• England was also strong in portrait painting and architecture.

Spanish Renaissance

• The Spanish Renaissance mostly showed up in scholarship and architecture.

• The Escorial Palace was built by Philip II in the late 1500’s showing the domes and various shapes used in ancient Italian architecture.

French Renaissance

• In France the Renaissance is most obvious in architecture and some of the paintings.

• The Chateau de Chambord was built during the French Renaissance, using columns, domes and varying shapes that were used in ancient times in Italy.