1. Introduction to the Renaissance
What is the Renaissance?

2. What is the Renaissance?
A time of rebirth centered in Italy
Focus on the “Classics” – ancient Greece and Rome – art, literature, science, philosophy, civic responsibility

3. What is the Renaissance?
2) A time of transition: from medieval --to “modern”

4. What is the Renaissance?
3) A time of powerful families: Medicis

5. What is the Renaissance?
4) A time of great architects:
San Lorenzo – Florence - Brunelleschi
Il duomo – Florence - Brunelleschi
Ghiberti – Baptistry doors

6. What is the Renaissance?
5) A time of great artists:
Michelangelo
Leonardo
Fra Angelico
Mosaccio
Donatello
Raphael
Giotto
Della Robbia
Paolo Uccello

7. What is the Renaissance?
6) A time of new ideas
Machiavelli
Thomas More
“A prince should have no other aim, and no other thought than war and its methods and practices.”
Castiglione
Erasmus
“I die the king’s good servant, but God’s first.”
The Courtier
(Description of the true Renaissance man)
“I brought it about that humanism, which among the Italians. . . Savored of nothing but pure paganism, began nobly to celebrate Christ.”
Shakespeare

8. What is the Renaissance?
7) A time of great religious change
Meister Eckhard
Martin Luther
Calvin
Erasmus von Rotterdam

9. What is the Renaissance?
8) A time of new inventions
Johann Gutenburg
“Observation is everything”
“Start with what you can see and learn from what you discover.”
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10. What is the Renaissance?
9) A time of science and exploration
Henry the Navigator
Copernicus’s Universe
Columbus
Magellan
Galileo Galilei & Telescope
Astrolabe