1. Italian Renaissance – 1300 – 1550
School of Athens by Raphael

2. End of the Middle Ages
[1] 1300’s – 1400’s, the “Black Death” (Bubonic Plague) …
[2] The Hundred Years’ War …

3. Da Vinci’s, Adoration of the Magi (1480)
To …
1527 – the death of Machiavelli

4. Italian Renaissance – 1300 – 1550
1480 – 1527 – “High” Italian Renaissance
Many factors lead to the Renaissance …
What is the Renaissance?

5. Handout: What was the focus of the Renaissance?
Francesco Petrarch ( ) – “Father of the
Renaissance”
Interest in classical texts and classical art forms …
Wrote in vernacular …

6. Mount Ventoux Incident (1336)

7. St. Augustine’s Confessions
Petrarch Takes Confession to mountain top

8. Mount Ventoux Incident (1336)

9. Italian Renaissance Factors encouraging the Renaissance …
“Renaissance men” …
Humanism
An intellectual movement studying classical Greek and Roman cultures …
Grammar, rhetoric, history, and poetry
Original sources
Individuality

11. Renaissance Art Projects
Short paper
Working in pairs
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12. The Arnolfini Portrait Jan van Eyck

14. Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch