Introduction to the Renaissance What is the Renaissance?
What is the Renaissance? A time of rebirth centered in Italy Focus on the “Classics” – ancient Greece and Rome – art, literature, science, philosophy, civic responsibility
What is the Renaissance? 2) A time of transition: from medieval --to “modern”
What is the Renaissance? 3) A time of powerful families: Medicis
What is the Renaissance? 4) A time of great architects: San Lorenzo – Florence - Brunelleschi Il duomo – Florence - Brunelleschi Ghiberti – Baptistry doors
What is the Renaissance? 5) A time of great artists: Michelangelo Leonardo Fra Angelico Mosaccio Donatello Raphael Giotto Della Robbia Paolo Uccello
What is the Renaissance? 6) A time of new ideas Machiavelli Thomas More “A prince should have no other aim, and no other thought than war and its methods and practices.” Castiglione Erasmus “I die the king’s good servant, but God’s first.” The Courtier (Description of the true Renaissance man) “I brought it about that humanism, which among the Italians. . . Savored of nothing but pure paganism, began nobly to celebrate Christ.” Shakespeare
What is the Renaissance? 7) A time of great religious change Meister Eckhard Martin Luther Calvin Erasmus von Rotterdam
What is the Renaissance? 8) A time of new inventions Johann Gutenburg “Observation is everything” “Start with what you can see and learn from what you discover.” f = ma
What is the Renaissance? 9) A time of science and exploration Henry the Navigator Copernicus’s Universe Columbus Magellan Galileo Galilei & Telescope Astrolabe