1. Agenda Warm Up Discussion: The Renaissance
Image Analysis, famous Renaissance Painters
Machiavelli… Your Muse
Was the Renaissance relevant? Video
Modern Day Printing Press?
HW: Read Chapter 14.

2. The Black Death, 6 facts… GO
Warm Up
The Black Death, 6 facts… GO

4. The Renaissance
14th-17th centuries

5. Renaissance A “rebirth/revival” of art and learning. Starts in Italy
Medici family controls Florence through wealth.
Part of the merchant class.
Renaissance focuses on learning Greek and Roman traditions. (Powerful Empires)
Shift away from Church teachings
Beginning of the Modern Age

6. Humanism Focuses on human potential and achievement.
Focuses on Greco-Roman values instead of Christian teachings.
“Humanities”
Petrarch
Created a library of Roman and Greek Manuscripts.
He aided in getting Greek and Roman names out to the public.

7. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”
Machiavelli
Wrote “The Prince” in 1513.
The handbook on how to control a country.
Two perspectives:
a way to give rulers an upper hand.
A way to provide peasants with a guide to ruling families.
“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”

8. Northern Renaissance Writings
Erasmus: writes New Testament in the vernacular (common language).
The Praise of Folly
Sir Thomas More
Wrote Utopia
An ideal society where men and women live in harmony.
Shakespeare
Begins writing in the 1580s, also wrote in vernacular.

9. Gutenberg and the Printing Press
1456, Gutenberg invents the printing press.
Created the complete edition of the bible, and it went on to sell 20 million copies.
Many learn to read.
Expanded intellectualism.

10. Turtle Power

11. Artists of the Renaissance
Michelangelo
Statue of David (Stone)
Painting the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

12. Artists of the Renaissance
Leonardo Da Vinci
Born 1452, a genius.
Paintings were realistic, a departure from Medieval works.
Mona Lisa & The Last Supper

13. Artists of the Renaissance
Donatello
Credited with “David” (but a bronze one completed 40 years before Michelangelo’s).

14. Artists of the Renaissance
Raphael
Paintings represented an “ideal beauty” (Madonnas)
School of Athens