1. The Renaissance

2. Review What does “Renaissance” mean?
What was the Renaissance a rejection of?
Who participated in the Renaissance?

3. Focus question
How did the Renaissance set the stage for modern society? Think of… (attitudes towards politics, art, religion, social values and economics)

5. What made the renaissance possible?
Began in Italy (Florence)
Proximity to Rome
Strong Economy
Trade Expansion, East and West
Italian city-states independent and prosperous
Development of Banking

6. What made the renaissance possible?
Politics
Elite rule by powerful familia(along with Popes, Cardinals, lords and Kings)
Wealthy families patroned and sponsored artistic development (Medici in Florence)
Plague?
Invention of the Printing Press
Moveable Type – Johann Gutenberg, 1439

7. New Patterns of Thought
Analyzing Renaissance Art

8. 1. Secularism
During the Renaissance, people found other things worth living for besides the afterlife

9. The Creation of adam, Michelangelo
Shows man more equal to divine

10. Classical values rather than Christian life
The birth of venus, Sandro Botticelli (1458)
Classical values rather than Christian life

11. 2. Humanism
Term created by the creators/participants in the Renaissance
Greek and Latin classics as their inspiration
Principles:
Living in this world
Human dignity
Responsible citizen
Value knowledge for its own sake
Knowledge for personal and political conduct
((History, Literature, Ethics, Rhetoric))

12. Michelangelo David
Vision of man, not god, as perfect, individual

13. School of Athens, Raphael (1510)
Love of learning, Classics, knowledge for self

16. 3. Individualism
Individual humans are capable of great accomplishments.
Importance = freed remarkable individuals and geniuses (Leonardo da Vinci) to live up to their potential (Medieval discouraged innovation)
Ex: Artists started signing their paintings (individualistic pride)
Individualistic system of capitalism encouraged private enterprise

17. self portrait, leonardo da vinci
Celebrated the identity of individuals, Autobiography

18. 4. Skepticism
curiosity and the questioning of authority

19. Renaissance Art New techniques (Perspective and realism)
Express feelings about place of humanity in the world (modern notion of art representing the world external to us)
Artists gained new stature, wealth
Classicism in art and architecture
Order
Harmony
Symmetry
The Dead Christ Leonardo da Vinci

20. Renaissance family
Change from Medieval “Communal family” to the more modern “Nuclear Family”
Growth of wealth
Sovereign state
Value of marital love and relationship with child

21. “Renaissance man” Excel at all matters
Learning, craftmanship AND civic life
Ex: Leonardo da Vinci ( )
Painter, Writer, Inventor, good at math and science
“The Courtier” (1528) by Baldassare Castiglione
Teach new courtly ideal of a Gentleman
Civic life, public and private justice, wisdom, liberality, moderation
Medieval equality of Knight and lady gone, now man is superior, woman there to please male

22. Therefore, Medieval ideal was the Knight, Renaissance ideal was the intelligent, civilized Gentleman
“Renaissance Man” describes a person with multiple capabilities, including artistic talent. Think of someone you know, or know of today who deserves the title “Renaissance Man” or “Renaissance Woman” and describe their talents and skills.