1. The Renaissance

2. Humanism Reasoning & aesthetic powers-separates us form animals
Cicero-classic scholar-the 1st humanist
Petrarch-founder of Renaissance Humanism
Traveled to study the classics
Hated vernacular
Classical Latin

3. Humanistic Education Liberal Education The Refined Gentleman
Plato over Aristotle
Cosimo di Medici-Platonic Academy
Empiricism-study for knowledge; questioning things
Lorenzo Valla-figured out that the Donation of Constantine was a fraud
DaVinci- disection

4. Erasmus of Rotterdam Illegitimate Child Father was a priest
Sent away to school
Philosophy of Christ
Studied to be a Priest
University of Paris
Lived off of Patrons
Translated the Bible

5. Erasmus
Satire
Wanted to cleanse the church of selfishness, cruelty, hypocrisy, pride, ignorance
Replace with: tolerance, love, honesty, wisdom, service

6. In Praise of Folly 1509 Doubt Double Meanings
“Without me the world can not live for a moment”
“Adapt to the game”
Criticized the church-wanted unity

7. Art
The School of Athens-Raphael Sanzio

8. Giotto
Fresco
Depth

13. Brunelleschi

14. Jan Van Eyck
Realism
Oil Paints-linseed oil instead of egg yolks

15. Portrait of a Man in a Turban

16. Arnolfini Portrait

18. The Ghent Altarpiece

19. Donatello

20. Tomb of Anti-Pope John XXIII

24. Sandro Boticelli

25. Primavera

26. Venus and Mars

27. Cosimo

28. The Temptation of Christ

29. Leonardo da Vinci

30. Arno Valley

31. The Baptism of Christ

32. The Adoration of the Magi

33. Study of a Horse

34. Annunciation

35. St. Jerome (unfinished)

36. Virgin of the Rocks

48. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

49. Pieta

50. DAVID

59. Lit & Drama
Rabelais-Gargantua & Pantagruel

60. Cervantes
Don Quixote

61. Shakespeare