1. Bell Work (5 minutes)
Using your electronic device or a dictionary, define the following:
Renaissance
Humanism
Secular
Lorenzo de Medici

2. Makeup tests

3. Learning Targets:
I can explain the changes in society and in cities that stimulated the beginning of the Renaissance.
I can describe ideas that formed the foundation for the Italian Renaissance.
I can examine and analyze a primary source document.

4. RENAISSANCE:
Historical period in Europe from about where a renewed interest in the classical culture of Greece and Rome led to changes in art, learning, and worldviews.

5. Humanism/Classicism
Education centered around the study of the Latin classics.
Studied these classics to understand human nature rather than only to understand God.
Focus on the humanities – grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, etc…

6. Secularism
A basic concern with the material world instead of the spiritual world. “Worldly”
Attention on improving life in the here and now, but did not abandon religion.
More focus on education, business, wealth
More leisure time, art patronage, etc…

7. Another Theme of the Renaissance
Individualism:
Went against Christian humility of the Middle Ages.
Uniqueness, Personality
Confidence in ability to achieve greatness
Genius, development of full potential
Quest for glory

8. Lorenzo de Medici (Lorenzo the Magnificant)
Statesman/businessman
Patron of the arts
Ruled Florence with his brother
Unofficial ruler when brother assonated

9. Excerpt from Boccacio’s Decameron

10. Florence

11. Why did the Renaissance occur. And why did it start in Italy
Why did the Renaissance occur? And why did it start in Italy? (Discuss with a neighbor)

12. Why did the Renaissance occur? And why did it start in Italy?
Increased trade with Asia and other regions
Italy – crossroads in Mediterranean Sea
Growth of large, wealthy city-states in Italy
Rest of Europe – still rural
Renewed interest in the classical learning of ancient Greece and Rome

13. Why the Renaissance began in Italy (cont)…
Rise of rich and powerful merchants, who became patrons of the arts
Ex: Medici family in Florence
Increased desire for scientific and technical knowledge
Desire to beautify cities
Ancient ruins from the Roman Empire

15. Trade Route Map
Answer questions on the back of the paper related to the trade route map (10 minutes)
If you need colored pencils or crayons you are welcome to do so

16. Letter by Lorenzo de Medici
4th Period
5 groups of 3
Group & 7
Group & 7
Group & 7
Group & 7
Group & 7

17. 5th Period 3 groups of 4 and 2 groups of 5 Group 1 – 2 & 7

18. Bell Work Using your notes from yesterday, answer the following:
Describe 2 events/happenings/reasons that led to the Renaissance.
Choose 1 of the themes of the Renaissance and list the detail that you remember most about it.

19. Learning Targets
I can summarize important new ideas of the Renaissance.
I can identify and explain new art techniques of the Renaissance.
I can apply knowledge of Renaissance art techniques to identify Renaissance paintings.

20. Cupola, or DOME The crowning jewel of the Florentine cityscape
Brunelleschi invented a new way to construct the dome.
Studied ancient roman buildings and came up with his own ideas how ancient elements could be utilized.

21. Perspective: The linear representation of distance and space on a flat surface.
How? By making distant objects smaller than those close to the viewer. Gives the illusion of depth.

22. 1 point perspective

23. 2 point perspective

24. 3 point perspective or “Birds Eye” or “Worms Eye”

25. The Last Supper http://smarthistory. khanacademy

26. Examples of Perspective

27. Botticelli 1445-1510 Birth of Venus is 5’ 8 7/8”x 9’
Based on traditional mythology
Venus is the goddess of love and arises from the sea on a shell

28. Adoration of the Magi

29. Botticelli self portrait

30. Andrea Mantegna 1431-1506 A polished artist by the age 17
He mastered form and anatomy
Excelled in working with perspective especially foreshortening

31. Foreshortening
Dead Christ By:
Andrea Mantegna
The use of perspective to represent a single object extending back in space at an angle to the picture plane.

32. Dead Christ
Strong realism and unusual perspective creates a fascinating image
Look into Christ’s face and at the same time see the holes in his hands and feet

33. DaVinci

34. Vitruvian Man

35. Called “The Universal Renaissance Man”
Michelangelo and Raphael were influenced by him
Painted a small number of pictures, but wrote on every aspect of human endeavor, including the arts and sciences.
Paired art with science and created many anatomy drawings

36. Fresco
A technique of painting on the plaster surface of a wall or ceiling that is still damp so the pigments become fused with the plaster as it dries.

37. Leonardo da Vinci The Last Supper

38. Sfumato Meaning “toned down” or “Vanished in Smoke”
Madonna and child with Saint Anne
Leonardo used sfumato with success in this piece- painting through glazes and producing a dreamlike effect.

39. Contrapposto
A stance of the human body where one leg bears the weight.

40. David
Verrocchio
David
Donatello
David
Michelangelo

41. Using IPads We will go on a scavenger hunt
Our goal will be to utilize knowledge of the Renaissance and art techniques from the period to identify Renaissance paintings
When you finish raise your hand so that I can check your work – You may then explore on your Ipad.