1. What is the Renaissance? Understanding the important changes in Europe

2. Characteristics of the Renaissance 1350-1600 AD Interest in the CLASSICS (Greece and Rome) Desire for ORDER Spirit of ADVENTURE HUMANISM: used Greek/Roman ideals to understand their lives! Focused on HERE AND NOW. F rancesco Petrarch: early Renaissance humanist, poet, and scholar

3. Begins in ITALY Why? Wealthy trading nation-states like Florence, Rome, and Venice had money to invest in painters, sculptors, and new buildings Influence of Muslim World’s writings Medici family in Florence The_Center_of_the_Renaissance__Italy.wmv

4. How did ART reflect the spirit of the Renaissance? Showed GREEK/ROMAN ideals Often had religious themes Use of perspective/realism, shading, oil Architecture: influence of Greece/Rome (domes/columns), arches Renaissance_Humanism__Reason__and_Art.wmv

5. Major Artists Michelangelo David, La Pieta, painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel Designed dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome Michelangelo__Renaissance_Artist__The_Ceiling_of_the_Sistine_Chapel.asf

6. Part of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel This took him four years to create!

7. Raphael Blended Christian and classical styles Painted “School of Athens” Part_Four__Raphael_.asf

8. Northern Renaissance Johann Gutenberg and Printing Press: effects? Jan Van Eyck and Pieter Bruegel: common people, used oil paintings for realism Gutenberg_s_Printing_Press_and_the_Spread_of_Ideas.wmv Part_Three__Brueghel_s_Depictions_of_Peasant_Life.asf

9. Writers Erasmus: “In Praise of Folly,” humor and sarcasm Sir Thomas More: utopian societies Rabelais: used characters to give opinions on religion DISTRUST OF ORGANIZED RELIGION

10. William Shakespeare Sonnets Tragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet) Timeless works: still used today! The Globe Theater

11. Influence of Shakespeare TODAY? 10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew): Julia Stiles O (Othello): Mekhi Pfifer, Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles Romeo and Juliet : Leonardo Decaprio, Claire Danes

13. Attachments The_Center_of_the_Renaissance__Italy.wmv Renaissance_Humanism__Reason__and_Art.wmv Michelangelo__Renaissance_Artist__The_Ceiling_of_the_Sistine_Chapel.asf Part_Four__Raphael_.asf Part_Three__Brueghel_s_Depictions_of_Peasant_Life.asf Gutenberg_s_Printing_Press_and_the_Spread_of_Ideas.wmv