1. Out of the doom and gloom of the Dark Ages…

2. Society is “reborn!”

3. The Renaissance

4. You are about to enter a world where science, exploration, literature, and art thrived …

5. And life was centered on
The Individual

6. Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds, toward heaven: that is by letters written with their quills --Leonardo da Vinci

7. Educated men and women hoped to bring back the life and culture of Greece and Rome But, of course, bringing back a golden age is never possible. What they created was something totally new…

8. And it all begins in…yep, you guessed it…Northern Italy

9. The Renaissance begins…
The Renaissance began in the city-states of Northern Italy, especially Florence, Venice, Genoa, and Milan.

10. The Renaissance begins…
Wealthy merchants, like the Medici family in Florence, dominated politics and society as well as business
Cosmio de Medici to the left

11. The Renaissance begins…
Most of these merchants came from poor families.
They rose to power thanks to their own hard work and intelligence.
They believed they were great because of their merit as individuals
Just as these merchants competed with one another in business, they also competed as patrons, or sponsors, of the ARTS.

12. The Renaissance Man and Woman
Born!

13. The (Ideal) Renaissance Man
A man should be
Well educated in the classics of Greece and Rome
Charming, polite, and witty
Dance, write poetry, sing and play music
Physically graceful and strong, a skilled rider, wrestler, and swordsman

14. The (Ideal) Renaissance Woman
But women were also expected to inspire poetry and art. They were expected to be the object of great art, not the artist themselves
A woman should
Be as well educated as men
Know the classics
Paint
Write
Make music

15. The Early Renaissance

16. The Early Renaissance is marked by significant achievements in art, literature, and the celebration of the INDIVIDUAL.
Giotto was the artist
Dante was the writer
Both were individuals

17. Giotto

18. Giotto
Giotto di Bondone is credited with making a break with the flat, lifeless style of the Medieval artists
He painted bodies that looked real and lifelike, with bodies and faces that were rounded.

19. Before Giotto
Before Giotto
After Giotto

20. Dante

21. Dante
Fell in love at the age of 10. She was 8. She (Beatrice) became his muse. They became the model for men and women of the time
Dante’s most famous work, The Divine Comedy, is a poem in three parts.
The Inferno
Purgatorio
Paridisio

22. Dante…….. His masterpiece showed both the religious ideas of the Middle Ages and the worldly concerns of the Renaissance. It was a philosophical bridge between Europe’s past and future.

23. Dante…… Wrote in vernacular: everyday language of his homeland.
Gave the Italian language prestige.
Creator of modern Italian.

24. “Man can do anything, if he will”

25. The Quattrocento

26. As the golden age of the Quattrocento came to be, the merchants of Italy took pleasure in beautifying the city they ruled.

27. Artists like Masaccio, sculptors like Donatello, and authors like Machiavelli took what the earlier Renaissance men had done and moved forward

28. Donatello

29. Donatello

30. Masaccio

31. Masaccio

32. Machiavelli

33. Machiavelli
In The Prince, Machiavelli comes up with the philosophy that in politics, the ends justify the means.
“…for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps, and a lion to fight wolves.”

34. The High Renaissance

35. The High Renaissance
Here we find the painter Raphael, the painter and sculptor Michelangelo, and the epitome of the Renaissance Man…Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance art, literature, and science was lifted to unsurpassed brilliance.

36. Michelangelo

37. Michelangelo
Michelangelo became a painter at 13. At 23, he carved the “Pieta.” It was immediately hailed as a masterpiece
In 1504, he completed another masterpiece, the statue of the Biblical warrior and king…David

38. It was in 1508 when Michelangelo began his “greatest” work…the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

39. Some of the most famous…
The Creation of Man

40. Raphael

41. Raphael paints a Renaissance “Hall of Fame”

42. And finally…
Leonardo da
Vinci

43. Inventor

44. Scientist

45. Artist

48. Renaissance Man

49. The Renaissance doesn’t just stay in Italy
The Renaissance doesn’t just stay in Italy. It influences all of Europe through thinkers like Columbus, Shakespeare, Galileo, and Guttenberg as well as hundreds of artists.

50. And stands as a shining moment in history where the individual could take center stage.