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THE RENAISSANCE
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2. ITALY – “Rebirth”
The RENAISSANCE was a “rebirth” of literary, scientific, and artistic achievement.
Renewed interest in the Classics of Greece and Rome
Northern Italy 1300s-1600s
Why Italy?
Wealth! Merchants had great power.
Political Independence
Roman ruins

3. Humanism Humanism was an intellectual movement that focused on Secular
knowledge
Downplays religion (near Rome)
Focus on the Humanities:
Grammar, rhetoric, poetry, philosophy, history
Studied classic literature and authors
Aristotle, Cicero, Plato, Socrates, Hippocrates
Emphasis on Civic Service
Il Duomo, Florence, Italy by Brunelleschi

4. Humanism New techniques in painting, sculpture, and architecture
Used perspective to create the illusion of three dimensions
Masaccio
Vanishing point
Realistic portrayal of human anatomy
Nudes
Secular and religious subject matter
Rediscovered how to build domes
Filippo Brunelleschi

5. Humanism Leonardo da Vinci: the model “Renaissance man”
artist, scientist, inventor, visionary
Dissected human bodies to better understand anatomy
Drew the first flying machine
Raphael Sanzio
Painted balance, harmony, and order, like the Greeks and Romans
Famous for his Madonnas (Mary, mother of Jesus)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Idealized human beings