The RenaissanceOrigin

• Italy was the perfect location on the Mediterranean Sea between Western Europe and Muslim world.

• The Crusades led to increased trade between Western Europe and the Muslim world through trading centers in Italy.

• These major trading centers grew in wealth and independence, eventually becoming powerful city-states.

Why was Italy’s location important?

What allowed some powerful city-states to develop in Italy after the Crusades?

The RenaissanceOrigin

• Florence, Milan, Venice were some of these powerful city-states that used this wealth and independence to promote the arts and ideas that characterize the Renaissance.

• Florence is the birthplace of the Renaissance.

• The Medici family in Florence were important patrons of the Renaissance.

What helped promote the Renaissance?

Where did the Renaissance begin?

The RenaissancePrinciples

• Two features of the Renaissance were the classics and humanism.

• The classics were anything related with the Greeks and Romans.

• Humanism believed that the individual had importance and beauty.

What are two features of the Renaissance?

What does “classics” mean?

What is Humanism?

The RenaissanceRealism

• Humanism in art would focus on the human person, but would need to develop another idea called realism.

• Realism in art wanted to develop images that looked “real.”

• This was accomplished in a few different ways:– Shading – Perspective– Anatomical Correctness

How is realism related to humanism?

How was realism realized in art?

The RenaissanceRealism

• Shading would create the effect of light and shadow in an image.

• Perspective gave art depth, or a three-dimensional effect that added to a sense of the “real.”

• Anatomical correctness was concerned with the human body, its proportion, and realistic poses.

• Many artists studied the human body, which also increased understanding of medicine and lead to improvements in health.

What is perspective?

What was anatomical correctness concerned with?

How does an artist’s concern for anatomical correctness lead to improvements in health?

The RenaissanceReligious

• Much of the art, education, music, and architecture were religious.

• Italy’s strong Catholic culture and the Catholic Church greatly influenced much of the Renaissance.

• Overtime the Renaissance did produce more secular pieces as well.

What was the influence of religion on the Renaissance?

What does secular mean?