1. Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance
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Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance is a rebirth of learning that produces many great works of art and literature.

2. Italy’s Advantages The Renaissance
Renaissance—an explosion of creativity in art, writing, and thought
Started in northern Italy
Lasted from

3. Italy’s Advantages Merchants and the Medici Looking to Greece and Rome
A wealthy merchant class develops
More emphasis on individual achievement
Banking family, the Medici, controls Florence
Great patron of the arts in Italy
Looking to Greece and Rome
Artists and scholars study ruins of Rome, and study Latin and Greek manuscripts
Scholars move to Rome after the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

5. Classical and Worldly Values
Classics Lead to Humanism
Humanism—intellectual movement focused on human achievements
Humanists studied classical texts, history, literature, and philosophy
Worldly Pleasures
Renaissance society was secular—worldly
Wealthy enjoyed fine food, homes, and clothes

6. Classical and Worldly Values
Patrons of the Arts
Patron—a financial supporter of artists
Church leaders spend money on artworks to beautify cities
Wealthy merchants also patrons of the arts
The Renaissance Man
Excels in many fields: the classics, art, politics, and combat
Baldassare Castiglione’s (pictured right)The Courtier (1528) teaches how to become a “universal” person

7. Classical and Worldly Values
The Renaissance Woman
Upper-class, educated in classics, charming
Expected to inspire art but not create it
Isabella d’Este, patron of the artists, wields power in Mantua

8. The Renaissance Revolutionizes Art
Artistic Styles Change
Artists use realistic style copied from classical art, often to portray religious subjects
Painters use perspective—a way to show three dimensions on canvas
Realistic Painting and Sculpture
Realistic portraits of prominent citizens
Sculpture shows natural postures and expressions
The biblical David is a favorite subject among sculptors (although he looks more like a classical Greek)

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10. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Portrait painted after 1535 of Michelangelo at the age of 60 by Jacopino del Conte
The novel and film The Agony and the Ecstasy is about him painting the Sistine Chapel for Pope Julius II.

11. Photo of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

12. The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo, found of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

13. Michelangelo’s The Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel

14. The Renaissance Revolutionizes Art
Leonardo, Renaissance Man
Leonardo da Vinci—painter, sculptor, inventor, scientist
Paints one of the best-known portraits in the world: the Mona Lisa
Famous religious painting: The Last Supper

15. Leonardo’s Work: Painting
Left: Mona Lisa
Above: The Last Supper

16. Leonardo’s Work: Science & Medicine
The Vitruvian Man
Studies of a fetus from Leonardo's journals

17. Leonardo’s Work: Science & Medicine
Investigating the motion of the arm
Organs of a Woman’s Body

18. Leonardo’s Work: Inventions
Design of a flying machine based on bat’s wings

19. The Renaissance Revolutionizes Art
Raphael Advances Realism
Raphael Sanzio, famous for his use of perspective
Favorite subject: the Madonna and child
Famous painting: School of Athens

20. School of Athens by Raphael

21. Renaissance Writers Change Literature
New Trends in Writing
Writers use the vernacular—their native language
Self-expression or to portray individuality of the subject
Petrarch and Boccaccio
Francesco Petrarch, humanist and poet; woman named Laura is his muse
Boccaccio is best known for the Decameron, a series of stories

22. Renaissance Writers Change Literature
Machiavelli Advises Rulers
Niccolo Machievelli, author of a political guidebook, The Prince
The Prince examines how rulers can gain and keep power

23. 17.2 Northern Renaissance
1450…. Population rebounds from the Black Death and the destructive Hundred’s Year War ends in 1453
Italian Renaissance ideas spread to the North and mingle with the northern traditions creating a renaissance with its own style.

24. German and Dutch Painters
Albrecht Durer (German) creates art that is richer and more common based than the Italian art but rich in colors and themes
Jan van Eyck (Dutch) paints works that are realistic in details and show great individuality of the subjects.

25. Northern writers and Reform
Humanists tried to influence society with Christian values.
Desiderius Erasmus of Holland and Thomas More of England.
More writes Utopia about an imaginary place where greed, corruption, and war have been wiped out.

26. Women’s Reforms
Christian Humanist believed women should be educated, founded schools for women

27. Elizabethan England
1558 Elizabeth becomes Queen of England after the death of her half sister Mary “ Bloody Mary” both are daughters of King Henry VIII
As a women can be in here age she was highly educated and skilled in art, music, literature, and languages

28. William Shakespeare
One of the most famous playwrites and writers in history
He used the classics and drew on them for ideas and inspiration.
He is know to have created more words to the English language then anyone else
Many of his characters show the flaws in humans

29. Greatest Invention in History
Johann Gutenberg and the Printing Press
Improved on the idea of the Chinese around 1440 he designed a machine that would reproduce an entire page of a work.
Books could now be printed quickly and cheaply
First religious books (Bible) then others works.
This increased access to books inspires literacy in the general popualtion

30. Legacy of the Renaissance
The Arts
Art drew on the style and techniques of classical
Greece and Rome
Portrayed art in a more realistic manner
Artists created work that was more secular in
nature
Writers began use of the vernacular
Art praised individual acheivement

31. Changes in Society Printing made information more available
Increased the desire to learn and literacy
Lead to an era of expanded discoveries
Christian Humanists tried to reform society
People began to question practices of religion, and politics