1. The Renaissance in Europe
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The Renaissance in Europe
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: How can trade lead to economic prosperity and political power? How can ideas be reflected in art, sculpture, and architecture?
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2. TEKS and Objectives We will… I will…
(1D) identify causes and effects of the Renaissance. (24B) explain the relationship among Christianity, individualism, and growing secularism. (26A) identify significant examples of art and architecture from the Renaissance.
Compare and contrast the Renaissance and the Middle Ages
Analyze ideas in The Prince

3. Renaissance Means “rebirth”
A renewed interest in learning about classical civilizations of Greece and Rome

4. Decline of Feudalism Crusades Black Death Hundred Years’ War
Great Schism

5. Rise of Renaissance Growth of Italian Cities
Rome: home to popes
Genoa, Pisa, and Venice: important trading ports
Milan, Florence, and Siena: wealthy from banking, farming, and manufacturing
Patrons: wealthy merchants who sponsored artists

6. Artistic Impact: Painting and Sculpture
Middle Ages
flat and unrealistic
Renaissance
Realistic
Perspective and proportions

7. High Renaissance Masters
Leonardo da Vinci
“Renaissance Man” (artist, scientist, inventor)
Mastered art of realistic painting
Mona Lisa
Raphael Sanzio
Madonnas (paintings of Mary) and frescoes
School of Athens
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Painter, sculptor, architect
Sistine Chapel

11. Artistic Impact: Architecture
Middle Ages
Pointed arches and ornamentation
Renaissance
Columns and circular arches of classical civilizations
Filippo Brunelleschi
Developed domed roof
Florence Cathedra (largest church in the world)

13. Intellectual Impact: Scholarship and Literature
Petrarch
“Father of Humanism”
Humanism: the belief each person has dignity, worth, and uniqueness
Erasmus
Questioned the Church
Secularism: belief observation and reason can be used to explain the world
Use of Native Languages
Shakespeare, Cervantes

14. Intellectual Impact: Science
Middle Ages
Geocentric Theory: Earth is the center of the universe
Supported by the Church
Renaissance
Heliocentric Theory (Copernicus): the Sun is center of universe
Galileo: used telescope to prove theory
Found guilty of heresy by the Inquisition

15. Intellectual Impact: Technology
Middle Ages
Books printed by hand
Block printing was time consuming and inefficient
Gutenberg Printing Press
Movable type with individual letters
Allowed for the mass production of books
Encouraged the spread of new ideas
Increased literacy

16. Political Impact Niccolo Machiavelli Thesis: How to get and keep power
Author of The Prince
Thesis: How to get and keep power
Morality unrelated to politics
Humans motivated by greed
Good when possible; evil when necessary
The ends justify the means

17. WHETHER IT IS BETTER FOR THE PRINCE TO BE LOVED OR FEARED
Journal Entry #16
Read the following document from The Prince. Then answer the question that follows.
WHETHER IT IS BETTER FOR THE PRINCE TO BE LOVED OR FEARED
“From this arises the question: whether it is better to be loved more than feared, or feared more than loved. The answer is that one would like to be both, but as it is difficult for fear and love to go together, it is better to be feared. One can say about men: they are ungrateful, liars, and deceivers, anxious to avoid danger, and greedy. As long as you are useful to them, they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their lives, their children, so long as the danger is remote. But when you are in danger, they turn against you. Any prince who has come to depend on promises and takes no other precautions, ensures his own ruin…Men worry less about doing an injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself feared.”
Do you agree with Machiavelli’s advice in this passage? Give at least two reasons to support your stance.

18. Renaissance or Middle Ages?

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36. TEKS and Objectives We will… I will…
(1D) identify causes and effects of the Renaissance. (24B) explain the relationship among Christianity, individualism, and growing secularism. (26A) identify significant examples of art and architecture from the Renaissance.
Compare and contrast the Renaissance and the Middle Ages
Analyze ideas in The Prince