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Renaissance Means REBIRTH Rebirth of art and learning Began in northern Italy

Economic Foundations Increased demand for Middle Eastern products Letters of credit expanded supply of money and sped up trade. New accounting and bookkeeping practices used Arabic numerals

Italy Italian city-states became rich from trade: Florence Venice Genoa They were trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe. Independent city-states governed as republics by wealthy merchants.

Niccolo Machiavelli Wrote The Prince guidelines for the how to get power by absolute rule. Believed the ends justified the means One should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary.

Art and Literature Medieval art and literature focused on the Church and salvation. Renaissance art and writing focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.

Artists and Writers Artists Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo They were Renaissance men. Meaning they were good at everything.

Leonardo da Vinci Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper Handsome (he’s old in that picture), athletic, singer, artist, scientist, inventor

Michelangelo Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David Sculptor, painter, architect, poet One of the first sculptors to make stone look soft

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Pieta David

Humanism Celebrated the individual Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture Humanists were supported by PATRONS who were very wealthy The Vitruvian Man

Northern Renaissance With the rise of trade, travel and literacy, the Renaissance spread to rest of Europe. The art and literature changed as different cultures adopted the new ideas.