1. Do Now:
"Imagine that you have lived in Florence, Italy immediately following the Black Death.  You have survived, but many around you have not.  Describe your environment.  How do you feel?"

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3. Renaissance Means REBIRTH Rebirth of art and learning
Began in northern Italy

4. “Italian Renaissance”

5. Objectives 1.) During the middle ages 2.) During the Renaissance
Find God
Prove pre-conceived ideas
2.) During the Renaissance
Find man
Promote learning
Man loves himself again

6. Contrast to grimness of the Middle Ages
Plagues
Wars
Spend life preparing for the afterlife
Decreased power of the church

7. A Visual Metaphor of the Renaissance

8. What was the Renaissance?
Period following the middle ages
“Rebirth” of classical Greece and Rome
1st period to name itself and say bad things about earlier times (Dark Ages)
NAMES FOR ARTISTS
Began in Italy
Moved to northern Europe

9. Economic Foundations Increased demand for Middle Eastern products
Encouraged the use of credit and banking
Letters of credit expanded supply of money and sped up trade.
New accounting and bookkeeping practices used Arabic numerals

10. Major Italian Cities Adriatic Sea Tyrrhenian Sea Venice Milan Genoa.
Many independent city-states emerged in northern and central Italy that played an important role in Italian politics and art.
Milan
One of the richest cities, it controls trade through the Alps.
Milan
Venice
Venice
Sitting on the Adriatic, it attracts trade from all over the world.
Genoa
Florence
Florence
Controlled by the De Medici Family, who became great patrons of the arts (AKA Bored Rich people)
Adriatic Sea
Genoa
Had Access to Trade Routes
Tyrrhenian Sea
Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets
Competition with each other
• Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe
• Were initially independent city-states governed as republics

11. Influence of City States
Growth of the
Trade and Commerce
Influence of City States
Trade = Wealth
Crusades connect with Muslims
Rich Families Support Arts
Muslims introduce new ideas
Cities and Merchants grow
Beginning of the
Renaissance in Europe
Tried to improve on old things
“Humanities” in Education
Greece and Rome
Change ideas about government, religion, social class
The Growth of Humanism

12. Niccolo Machiavelli Wrote The Prince
guidelines for the how to get power by absolute rule.
Believed the ends justified the means
One should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary.

13. Art and Literature
Medieval art and literature focused on the Church and salvation.
Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.

15. Artists and Writers Artists Writers Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo
Petrarch

16. Leonardo da Vinci Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
Handsome, athletic, singer, artist, scientist, inventor

18. Michelangelo
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David
Sculptor, painter, architect, poet

19. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

20. Pieta
David

21. Petrarch Wrote Sonnets He wrote with a Humanistic approach
Considered the “Father of Humanism”

22. Humanism - system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems.
Celebrated the individual
Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture
Humanists were supported by PATRONS who were very wealthy
The Vitruvian Man

23. Northern Renaissance
With the rise of trade, travel and literacy, the Italian Renaissance spread to northern Europe.
The art and literature changed as people of different cultures adopted Renaissance ideas.

24. Northern Renaissance Writers
Erasmus—The Praise of Folly (1511)
Critical of corrupt church practices
Catalyst for Protestant Reformation

25. Northern Renaissance Writers
Sir Thomas More —Utopia (1516)
Depicts world with perfect social, legal and political system
Leading humanist scholar