Renaissance & Reformation, 1350 – 1600 The Renaissance Objective: Social, political, economic, and cultural changes associated with the Renaissance. Renaissance & Reformation, 1350 – 1600 The Renaissance
The Renaissance: “rebirth” of interest in the Classics; began in Italy Recovery from plague & decline in Church power New view of human beings: humanism
Italy: independent city-states Florence: birthplace of Renaissance, early 1400s, the Medici family Milan: crossroads of trade routes Venice: jewel of the Renaissance, late 1500s; trade link Europe & Asia
Renaissance Italy, 1500
Humanism: secular (worldly) rather than spiritual Emphasis on individual ability Education could dramatically change people Liberal studies or liberal arts were the core of humanist schools
Humanism
Johannes Gutenberg: “invented” printing press, 1440 Revolutionary printing method with moveable metal type Hastened spread of humanist learning
The Impact of Printing Johannes Gutenberg’s Bible, printed about 1455, was the first European book produced from movable type.
Gutenberg Bible
Vernacular literature: everyday or local language Petrarch: father of Italian Renaissance humanism; sonnets Dante: The Divine Comedy, journey from hell through purgatory to heaven Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales Machiavelli: The Prince, abandoned morality as basis for political activity Petrarch – Italian Humanist 1304 – 1374
Dante’s Divine Comedy, c. 1310
Geoffrey Chaucer, 1343 – 1400
Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469 – 1527
Italian Renaissance: art showed emotions & life like sculptures Painters: new techniques in painting, more realistic Filippo Brunelleschi: architect, dome for Cathedral of Florence Masters of the High Renaissance: three artistic giants Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa & The Last Supper Rafael: numerous Madonnas; frescoes; School of Athens Michelangelo: La Pieta & Sistine Chapel ceiling
Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377 – 1446
The Duomo, Florence
Leonardo da Vinci
Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
Da Vinci’s Last Supper
The Last Supper
Rafael
School of Athens by Rafael, 1510
Michelangelo
La Pieta by Michelangelo
The Creation of Adam, the Sistine Chapel
Artists of the Renaissance
Northern Renaissance Adapted Italian ideas to suit needs & traditions Looked more to Middle Ages than to Rome & Greece Jan & Hubert van Eyck: Flemish painters & brothers Developed the technique of painting in oils Painted scenes from the Bible & everyday life
Madonna by Jan van Eyck, 1436
Northern Renaissance cont…. Albrecht Durer: German, combined detail with Italian theories Writers Erasmus: The Praise of Folly attacked abuses The Elizabethan Age & William Shakespeare
Albrecht Durer, 1471 – 1528
Erasmus, 1466 – 1536
The Praise of Folly, 1509
“Age of Shakespeare” / “Elizabethan Era” 1623 Engraving Chandos Portrait Cobbe Portrait “Age of Shakespeare” / “Elizabethan Era”