Renaissance

Why Italy?  Center of ancient Roman Empire  Lots of Roman remains  Towns were prospering which created wealthy merchants

Medici Family  Powerful and wealthy  Held govt. positions  Merchants and bankers  Patrons of the arts

New Perspective  People focused on human experience in the present  Emphasized achievement and self improvement  Humanism= study of classical culture and humanities

Renaissance Art  Religious figures with Greek or Roman backgrounds  Paintings of well-known figures  Frescos= painting on wet plaster  Perspective= distant objects are smaller, 3 dimensional  Studied human anatomy and drew from live models

Renaissance Architecture  No more pointed arches and flying buttresses  Columns, rounded arches, and domes were in

Famous Florentines

Leonardo da Vinci ( )  Dissected corpses to see how body works  Works of art= The Last Supper and Mona Lisa  Also an inventor

Michelangelo ( )  Sculptor, architect, painter, and poet  Sculptures= the Pieta and David  Sistine Chapel= 4 years on his back, biblical history of the world  Designed the dome for St. Peter’s Cathedral

Raphael ( )

Machiavelli ( )  It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.  The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.  Politics have no relation to morals.

Northern Renaissance

Albrecht Durer  “German Leonardo”  Used engravings= design on a metal plate with acid, plate then used to make prints  Madonna at the Moat

Pieter Bruegel  Used vibrant colors  Painted scenes of peasant life  The Peasant Dance

Thomas More ( )  Wrote Utopia  Utopian= ideal society

Excerpts from Utopia  As long as there is property, and while money is the standard of all things, I cannot think that a nation can be governed either justly or happily; not justly, because the best things will fall to the share of the worst men; nor happily, because all things will be divided among a few (and even those are not in all respects happy), the rest being left to the absolutely miserable.  The only design of the Utopian in war is to obtain that by force, which if it had been granted them in time would have prevented the war.

William Shakespeare ( )  he wrote 37 plays  1,700+ words appeared for the first time in his works, ie. Bedroom, lonely, generous, gloomy, heartsick, hurry, and sneak  To be or not to be, that is the question  What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.  Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.  To thine own self be true.

Johann Gutenberg ( )  1456 Johann printed a complete edition of the Bible  Printed books now cheaper and easier to buy  More books= more people reading  Gave Europeans new ideas

“Renaissance Man”  Ideal Individual= tried to master all areas of study  Young men= charming, witty, well educated in classics; can dance, sing, play music, and write poetry  Women= should know the classics and be charming