Italian Renaissance – 1300 – 1550 School of Athens by Raphael
End of the Middle Ages [1] 1300’s – 1400’s, the “Black Death” (Bubonic Plague) … [2] The Hundred Years’ War …
Da Vinci’s, Adoration of the Magi (1480) To … 1527 – the death of Machiavelli
Italian Renaissance – 1300 – 1550 1480 – 1527 – “High” Italian Renaissance Many factors lead to the Renaissance … What is the Renaissance?
Handout: What was the focus of the Renaissance? Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) – “Father of the Renaissance” Interest in classical texts and classical art forms … Wrote in vernacular …
Mount Ventoux Incident (1336)
St. Augustine’s Confessions Petrarch Takes Confession to mountain top
Mount Ventoux Incident (1336)
Italian Renaissance Factors encouraging the Renaissance … “Renaissance men” … Humanism An intellectual movement studying classical Greek and Roman cultures … Grammar, rhetoric, history, and poetry Original sources Individuality
Renaissance Art Projects Short paper Working in pairs Jump online an simply read about these paintings
The Arnolfini Portrait Jan van Eyck
Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch