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1 What was the Renaissance?
Renaissance means rebirth and Europe was recovering from the Dark ages and the plague. People had lost their faith in the church and began to put more focus on human beings Secular Moved away from life in the church Focuses more on material objects and enjoying life

2 How did the Crusades contribute to the Renaissance?
• demand for Middle Eastern products • Encouraged the use of credit and banking

3 Where?? Why? It was the center of trade and wealth
Major Italian Cities Where?? Why? It was the center of trade and wealth Milan Venice Genoa Florence Adriatic Sea

4 More Art = higher Social & Political status!
Art and Patrons Italians had lots of money to spend on art. More Art = higher Social & Political status!

5 Political Ideas of the Renaissance
Niccolò Machiavelli Wrote “The Prince” Machiavelli believed: “One can make this generalization about men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars, and deceivers, they shun danger and are greedy for profit” a ruler should be willing to do anything to maintain control without worrying about conscience.

6 It is better for a ruler to be feared than to be loved
A ruler should be quick and decisive in decision making A ruler keeps power by any means necessary The end justifies the means Be good when possible, and evil when necessary

7 Celebrated the individual
Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture

8 Medieval art and literature focused on the Church and salvation
Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.

9 Born in 1475 in a small town near Florence, is considered to be one of the most inspired men who ever lived

10 Michelangelo created his masterpiece David in 1504.

11 Sistine Chapel About a year after creating David, Pope Julius II summoned Michelangelo to Rome to work on his most famous project, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

12 La Pieta 1499 Marble Sculpture

13 Moses

14 Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer
Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer Genius!

15 Mona Lisa – da Vinci, ?

16 ParodyThe Best Form of Flattery?
A Macaroni Mona

17 A Picasso Mona

18 An Andy Warhol Mona

19 A “Mona”ca Lewinsky

20 Mona Lisa OR da Vinci??

21 The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
vertical horizontal Perspective!

22 This composition draws your eye automatically to the
subject of the painting – it isolates Jesus from the rest of the elements in the painting

23 Notebooks

24 Raphael Painter

25 The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo

26 The School of Athens – Raphael, details
Plato: looks to the heavens [or the IDEAL realm]. Aristotle: looks to this earth [the here and now].

27 Betrothal of the Virgin
Perspective! Betrothal of the Virgin Raphael 1504

28 Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (1434)
Jan Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (1434) Northern Renaissance

29 Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)
Van Eyck Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife (detail)

30 Wrote love poems in the Vernacular
Francesco Petrarch Wrote love poems in the Vernacular

31 • Growing wealth in Northern Europe
Northern Renaissance • Growing wealth in Northern Europe • Merged humanist ideas with Christianity. • The Gutenberg Bible helped spread ideas. Northern Renaissance writers • Erasmus—The Praise of Folly (1511) • Sir Thomas More—Utopia (1516)

32 Literature flourished during the Renaissance
This can be greatly attributed to Johannes Gutenberg In 1455 Gutenberg printed the first book produced by using moveable type. The Bible

33 Desiderius Erasmus Pushed for a Vernacular form of the Bible
The Praise of Folly Used humor to show the immoral and ignorant behavior of people, including the clergy. He felt people should be open minded and be kind to others.

34 Sir Thomas More English Humanist Wrote: Utopia
A book about a perfect society Believed men and women live in harmony. No private property, no one is lazy, all people are educated and the justice system is used to end crime instead of executing criminals.

35 The End

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