Renaissance An Awakening?

Where Have We Been? Ancient Classical Middle Ages Renaissance

When Does It Begin? Mid 1300’s (14th Century) Some say Black Death (1347) Or the death of Petrarch (1374) What distinguishes this time period from the Middle Ages?

Let’s Define It Renaissance is a French word for rebirth Rebirth of what? Of philosophical and artistic movements Renaissance people looked back and admired classical (Greek and Roman) achievements

Driving Force: Humanism The study of the humanities Grammar, rhetoric, history, and poetry, using classical texts. They copied old Roman and Greek works, and emphasized education and the arts A more secular outlook All Christian teachings are maintained, but no longer the only emphasis

Where? Italian peninsula / Florence Why Florence? Why not France, why not Rome? Florence had money, banking and trade The Medici Family – great patrons of the arts, funded this awakening

Key Players Petrarch - one of the first humanists He wrote to the dead of antiquity Castiglione – taught manners Machiavelli – taught how to rule Wrote The Prince They all referenced the Greece and Rome

Art Medieval Art – Religious, flat, no proportion, limited colors, little detail Giotto is inspiration for Renaissance artists Renaissance Art – Realistic, less religion (more secular), details, diverse colors, depth, perspective, proportion, landscapes

Italian artists Masaccio Donatello Botticelli Leonardo Michelangelo Raphael Titian Paintings and sculptures, paid for by the wealthy, the princes, and the Church

Northern Renaissance Spread to the north, Flemish region, more portraits, more common people Jan Van Eyck Brueghel Holbein Durer

Northern Humanism Christian Humanism (inspired the Reformation) Erasmus – Advocated the return to the Bible and to make church more spiritual Thomas More – Held a similar view and also supported a more equal society Utopia - ideal place or society

Increase In Literacy Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 1450s Independent from China What book was made first? The Bible

Renaissance Hits England Later William Shakespeare – (late 1500s-early 1600s) English, wrote poetic dramas surrounding familiar plots, also comedies and tragedies Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and more

The Legacy of Renaissance Birth of the vernacular language Emphasis on the individual Education and learning spread People will begin to question the world around them