1. The Renaissance

2. When was the Renaissance?
Around 1300
“rebirth”, also “birth of modern world
Era of great economic wealth and cultural activity
Italy
Define the “Renaissance”
Where did it begin?

3. List three advantages that
Home of Ancient Roman civilization
Trade connection with Byzantine civilization (overthrown by Ottoman Empire)
Interest in learning new ideas
Italy had that fostered the Renaissance:

4. How was Northern Italy
Trade Flourished
What is the impact on society if the economy is very strong?
different from the rest of Europe?

5. What did wealthy
They became patrons of the arts
merchants begin spending their money on?

6. What two cultures did
Ancient Greece and Rome
Renaissance scholars study?

7. Define “humanism”.
An interest in intellectual ideas
Often, an interest in the classics
Studies in Greek and Roman literature
(What did it focus on?)
Define “classics”

8. What is the “tension”
Taking an interest in humanist ideas as well as
being a committed Catholic
(secular vs religious concerns)
Worldly interests
humanists felt?
Define secular

9. Define “perspective”
Creating the illusion of depth in paintings (flat canvases)
(as an art term)

10. Renaissance Paintings
Lifelike: looked realistic, artists studied the body
Perspective: showed depth (3D)
Emotion: revealed artist’s feelings
Sometimes secular: sometimes nonreligious

11. So What Were Paintings Like Before the Renaissance?
Medieval Paintings

12. Renaissance or Medieval Art?

13. Renaissance or Medieval Art?

14. Renaissance or Medieval Art?

15. Renaissance or Medieval Art?

16. Who is Leonardo Da Vinci?
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, & scientist

17. What are two famous
The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Example
paintings by Da Vinci?
Da Vinci’s Window

18. Italian Renaissance Artists
Who is Michelangelo?
Italian Renaissance Artists
Sculptor
Painter

19. Describe what Michelangelo
Painted the ceiling
did at the Sistine Chapel

20. Famous Sculpture?
The David

21. Who invented the printing
Johannes Gutenberg (of Germany)
press?

22. Provide specific examples
Economic
Social: Spread of Ideas
changes how people think and live
3) Political
of the impact of the printing press:
First Book to be Printed?

23. What did Erasmus study?
Humanism

24. How were his studies
He was interested in religious ideas, too
He tried to combine the two interests
different from the classic scholars of Italy?

25. Name three accomplishments
Plays
Romeo & Juliette
Macbeth
Hamlet
Sonnets
Essays
of Shakespeare (you can be specific or general)