1. BELL WORK What do you know about the Renaissance?
List 3 ideas/concepts that you know about the Renaissance.
List 2 people that you know from the Renaissance.

2. The Renaissance
Renaissance

3. OBJECTIVES Define Renaissance
Describe factors that led to the Renaissance
Identify the reasons the Renaissance began in Italy
Explain the role of patrons in Renaissance society 3

4. Renaissance French word meaning rebirth Rebirth of what?
classical culture: Greece & Rome
What was that?
Focus on human life, learning, reason
It first occurred in Northern Italy in about the 15th century
WHY?

5. The Crusades - Review What were the effects of the Crusades?
Religious Intolerance
Increased Trade
Destruction of Byzantine Empire
Decline in Pope’s power
Decline in Feudal system
Revival of Greek Ideas

6. Black Death Lots of people died – tons and tons and tons
The plague killed kings, peasants, townspeople, church officials everyone died
This causes two things –
A decline in the feudal system – and a rise of towns
A focus on human life and living for the moment

7. Causes of the Renaissance
Focus on the human life and the present
Focus on the individual
(Black Death)
Increased trade
Lead to an increase in money, growth of towns
(Crusades)
Fall of the Byzantine Empire
Spread Greek scholars throughout Europe
Revival in Greek thinking and art

8. Why Italy? Cities (about 100,000 people)
Florence
Genoa
Venice
Rome
The cities of Italy survived the Middle Ages - grown into prosperous trade centers.
Cities allowed people to specialize in one pursuit – especially art
Allowed merchants in Northern Italy to become very wealthy

9. Why Italy? Why Italy? WHY ITALY?
It’s the rebirth of ROMAN ideas. So why Italy?
Rome is in Italy, there were ruins and reminders of the culture all around

10. Why Italy? Italy was home to the people most likely to be patrons
Patron: sponsor of the arts (they gave lots of money to artists)
Who did Italy have that had lots of money?
Merchants
Pope

11. Art and Patronage Italians were willing to spend a lot of $$ on art.
Art communicated soc., pol., & spiritual values.
Italian banking & international trade interests had the money.
Public art in Florence was organized & supported by merchants.
Therefore, the consumption of art was used as a form of competition for social & political status!

12. Medici The Medici family controlled banking throughout all Europe
Were the richest individuals in all Europe
Technically, Medicis - not the rulers of Florence.
Used their wealth & influence to control the government behind the scenes.

13. Popes Popes used church $$$ to rebuild Rome
Commissioned many religious works
Sistine Chapel
School of Athens

14. Filippo Brunelleschi Commissioned to build the cathedral dome.
Used unique architectural concepts.
Studied the ancient Pantheon in Rome.
Used ribs for support.

15. Lorenzo Ghiberti Goldsmith in Florence
His great work, the doors to the Baptistery of Florence
considered 1st great work of the Renaissance
“Gates of Paradise”
- Michelagelo
Background and depth

17. QUESTIONS What does Ren. mean? What are 2 causes of the Ren.?
What are the 3 reasons the Ren. started in Italy?
What is a patron?

18. TO DO: In Class: Homework:
What are traits of the perfect person today? (not physical)
Choose 3 people in today’s society that you feel have these characteristics.
Homework:
Read “Values of the Renaissance”. Write down 5 important facts and a summary on the same sheet of paper.