1. The Renaissance 1300s-1600s
A rebirth of classic Greek & Roman learning which produced new attitudes towards culture and learning. It had a new emphasis on individual achievement where men explored the richness & variety of human experience in the here and now.

2. (Watch Video on the Renaissance)
Citation (MLA) All About the Renaissance, Part One: Historical Background, Beginnings, and Art. United Learning unitedstreaming. 5 April 2006 <

3. Italian City-states Florence Genoa Milan Naples Papal States Sicily Venice

4. Central Mediterranean location
Why Italy?
Merchant trade
Pax Romana ruins

5. How would this shift in thinking affect the people of the Renaissance?
Humanism
Intellectual movement of the Renaissance
Focused on worldly, secular, subjects rather than on the religious issues that had occupied medieval thinkers
Studia Humanitas (study of the humanities): grammar, rhetoric, poetry and history based on Greek & Roman texts
How would this shift in thinking affect the people of the Renaissance?

6. City-states: Florence

7. Renaissance Architecture (Florence): Filippo Brunelleschi’s Dome

8. Renaissance Architecture (Florence): The Palazzo Medici courtyard

9. The Medicis of Florence
Prominent banking business (& textiles)
Cosimo de Medici gained control of Florence in 1434
Graduated income tax (wealthier citizens paid more)
Used the tax revenue to improve the city (sewers & paved streets)
Lorenzo de Medici “The Magnificent”
Patron (supporter) of artists, philosophers, writers & public festivals

10. Another patron of the arts: Pope Julius II, Renaissance prince

11. Renaissance Architecture (Venice): Central dome of St. Mark's Basilica

12. Renaissance Architecture (Papal): Transept & part of St. Peter’s dome

13. Which Renaissance artist was the greatest?

14. The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
Donatello ( )
The Feast of Herod
St. John the Evangelist
David
The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

15. Madonna of the Magnificat
Botticelli ( )
Madonna of the Magnificat
La Primavera
Madonna of the Book
The Birth of Venus

16. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) The Last Supper Self Portrait Helicopter
Mona Lisa
Womb
Testa di Fanciulla
Vitruvian Man

17. Michelangelo ( )
Sistine Chapel
Pieta
David
Moses

18. Raphael ( )
The School of Athens
Cowper Virgin
Cherubini

19. Renaissance Literature
Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly (1509)
Nicollò Machiavelli The Prince (1513)
Sir Thomas Moore Utopia (1518)
Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the Courtier (1528)
William Shakespeare – 37 plays: Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, etc. ( )
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote (1605)

20. Nicollò Machiavelli’s The Prince
Wrote The Prince in 1513
“How to” book
Dedicated it to Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici (grandson of Lorenzo the Magnificent)
“It is better to be feared than loved”
“The ends justify the means”
Nicollò Machiavelli
Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici