1. Early Renaissance in Italy
Additional info you should know.

2. -15th century Italians thought of themselves as living in a new age.
Renaissance= Rebirth
-15th century Italians thought of themselves as living in a new age.
Rebirth of classical learning, literature and art.
- Happens as a result of events, people, ideas, & social shifts.

3. *Emphasis on human works, philosophy, rhetoric, and moral thinking.
THE Focus:
*Emphasis on human works, philosophy, rhetoric, and moral thinking.
Mathematical and scientific ideas.
* Invention of printing press in 1464 allows the spread of books.

4. The ArT Devised new techniques such as perspective & printmaking.
* studied ancient artworks. Imitate details and motifs. Study the naturalism of ancient sculptures.
Artist status rises BC artist behaves like an intellectual solving problems mathematically/scientifically & investigating the past.

5. Florence, Italy Birthplace of Renaissance Manufacturing center
Key center for trade & international banking.
Government is a republic. Signifies Florence’s identity as heirs of the ancient Roman Republic.

6. GUILDS
Economic & social organizations that control the making and marketing of a specific product. Sculptors, painters, printmakers, goldsmiths, etc. Sons of trades inherit entry. NO DAUGHTERS. Not many women in guilds.

7. Baptistry competition
Modeled after Andrea Pisano’s Bronze doors for Baptistry. Competing to create a second set of bronze doors. Each entrant to use same figures and materials. SACRIFICE OF ISSAC. GOTHIC QUATREFOIL SHAPE Brunelleschi VS. Ghilberti

8. Pisano’s bronze doors at San Giovanni. From early Christian

9. foreshortening
A method of reducing or distorting the parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane in order to convey the impression of three dimensions as seen by the human eye.