1. Renaissance Art

2. Do Now: write your answer on an index card!
How did Europe recover from the Black Death?

3. Medieval Art

4. Medieval Art

5. Medieval Art after the Black Death

7. New Concepts
Humanism – a Renaissance cultural revival of ancient Greek and Roman thought, including:
Grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history
Human form is the focus instead of religious or heavenly imagery
Focus on the power of the human mind and its potential
Perspective – allows for a “3D” effect that Medieval art lacked. Depth.

8. Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa

9. Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper

10. Compare perspective

11. Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
Statue of David

12. More Sistine Chapel
Creation of Adam

13. Creation of Adam spoofs

14. Is the Creation of Adam a brain?

15. Compare Greek and Roman sculptures with The Statue of David
Renaissance Italian

16. Raphael
The School of Athens

17. Results of the Renaissance
Education became more secular – less emphasis on religion.
More people were being educated in history, grammar, writing, literature, and the arts