1. The Renaissance

2. What are “Values” of Society?
Write down what you think the values of society are…
Get up and meet someone across the room and share out your thoughts with each other

3. There Were Three Important Values that set Renaissance Thought apart from the Middle Ages
Individualism: Celebration of the Individual
Humanism: Love of Classical Learning
Secularism: Enjoyment of Worldly Pleasures

4. How is this different from
Individualism
Celebration of the individual
Individuals become more important than churches, guilds, etc.
Artists wanted to be remembered- everyone did!
Biographies and portrait painting
emphasize the importance of individuals
How is this different from
the Middle Ages?

5. Humanism Humanism- the study of classical culture
What every educated person should know
Focused Greece and Rome
scholars rejected the culture of the Middle ages
returned to Greek and Roman culture
All art was inspired by Greece and Rome
Freestanding statues
How is this different from the Middle Ages?

6. How is this different from
Secularism
Secularism: the belief that religion should have little part in political or public affairs
Enjoy worldly pleasures/luxuries
Clothes, jewels, food
Art had more earthly subjects
How is this different from
the Middle Ages?

7. Write down these questions and answer them in the space for each picture and quote.
What values of society from the Renaissance are present in this image/passage?
How is human nature described in this image/passage?
How is the role of government displayed in this image/passage?
What is the role of religion in this image/passage?

8. Last Supper

9. Mona Lisa

10. “But we must not forget that true distinction is to be gained by a wide and varied range of such studies as conduce to the profitable enjoyment of life, in which, however, we must observe due proportion in the attention and time we devote to them. First amongst such studies I place History: a subject which must not on any account be neglected by one who aspires to true cultivation. For it is our duty to understand the origins of our own history and its development; and the achievements of Peoples and of Kings.”
– Leonardo Bruni’s “Study of Greek Literature and a Humanist Educational Program”
Capitol Dome in Washington DC

11. Creation of Adam

12. – Machiavelli’s The Prince
“Upon this a question arises: whether it is better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with.”
– Machiavelli’s The Prince

13. Pieta

14. “He desired glory and excellence more than any man, but he can be criticized for having carried this desire even into unimportant matters. In versifying, in games, and in other pursuits he got very angry with anyone who equaled him or imitated him. The desire was too strong in important matters too. He wanted to equal and compete with all the princes of Italy in everything.” – Francesco Guicciardini’s History of Florence

16. “Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. If sensitive, he will become brutish. If rational, he will grow into a heavenly being. If intellectual, he will be an angel and the son of God. And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.” – Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man

17. School at Athens