1. The Renaissance

2. A. The Meaning… Renaissance means “rebirth”…but what was reborn?
Excitement for life…
Belief in man as being powerful…if not all powerful…
A distrust for organized religion…
A love of $ and all the things that go with it…art, leisure, etc.

3. B. The Setting…
The Renaissance originated in northern Italy – the Home of Embassies and Urban Civilization.
Florence – “Mother of Great Men” and families…
Rome - a city tragically flawed…
Venice – a center for commerce…

4. C. Movements… 2. Secularism…
Individualism…
~ celebrate the uniqueness of the individual…
2. Secularism…
~ interest in religion declines…interest in worldly pleasures increases…

5. C. Movements…
Humanism…
~ attempts to bring back the classics…emphasize human values…
Academia (scholasticism)…
~ focus on logic and natural philosophy…

6. D. Giants… Da Vinci… Raphael… Michangelo… Machiavelli… Castiglione…
Petrarch…
Etc…

7. E. Northern Renaissance…
Differences?
Origin…
Religious connection…
Emotion…
Spread…
Artists, Authors, and Social Critics