What is the Renaissance? Unit 1 - Chapter 10 Kagan 10 th Edition
What is the Renaissance? 1)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, Borgias, d’Este…
4) A time of great architects: What is the Renaissance? Il duomo – Florence - Brunelleschi San Lorenzo – Florence - Brunelleschi Ghiberti – Baptistry doors
What is the Renaissance? 5) A time of great artists: Giotto Michelangelo Della Robbia Donatello Paolo Uccello Leonardo Raphael Mosaccio Fra Angelico
What is the Renaissance? 6) A time of new ideas “I brought it about that humanism, which among the Italians... Savored of nothing but pure paganism, began nobly to celebrate Christ.” “A prince should have no other aim, and no other thought than war and its methods and practices.” “I die the king’s good servant, but God’s first.” Erasmus Castiglione The Courtier (Description of the true Renaissance man) Shakespeare Machiavelli Thomas More
What is the Renaissance? 7) A time of new inventions “Observation is everything” “Start with what you can see and learn from what you discover.” Johann Gutenburg f = ma
What is the Renaissance? 8) A time of science and exploration Henry the Navigator Columbus Magellan Astrolabe Copernicus’s Universe Galileo Galilei & Telescope
What is the Renaissance? 9) A time of great religious change Martin Luther Meister Eckhard Erasmus von Rotterdam Calvin