1. The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance
Chapter 12 Section 2
The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance

2. Objectives: Explain Italian Renaissance Humanism
Compare and Contrast Greek Education to Renaissance Education
Evaluate different Vernacular literature of the Renaissance
Analyze changes in painting, Sculpture, and Architecture

3. Humanism
Humanism was based on the study of the classics, the literary works of the Greeks and Romans.
Humanists studied the humanities- rhetoric, grammar, poetry, philosophy and history.
Petrarch is referred to as the father of humanism and put an emphasis on classical Latin.
Focus on solitude, which shifted in Florence to a more civic life.

4. Petrarch

5. Vernacular Literature
Prominent writers-
Dante: an Italian, wrote Divine Comedy
Chaucer: English author, The Canterbury Tales
Story of 29 Pilgrims journey to the tomb of Thomas a Becket.
Christine de Pizan, a Frenchwoman known for her works in defense of women.

6. Education in the Renaissance
Humanists believed that education can change human beings.
Humanist educators stressed liberal arts curriculum and physical education.
Aim of education was not to create great scholars, but complete citizens.
Women were mostly absent from schools, but when attending they studied mostly religion and morals.

7. New Techniques in Painting
A fresco is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster.
Masaccio’s frescos in Florence are considered the finest masterpieces of the early Renaissance ( )
Focuses on perspective, making them look 3-D.
Two changes were stressed- the technical and investigation of movement and anatomy.
Sought Realism.

8. Masaccio- The Tribute Money

9. Brancacci Chapel

10. Sculpture and Architecture
Donatello spent time studying in Rome and copying the statues of the Greeks and Romans.
Filippo Brunelleschi was hired by the Medici family and designed the church of San Lorenzo.
Classical columns, rounded arches, intended to not overwhelm

11. San Lorenzo

12. Closure:
What did you learn today?

13. Objectives: List the Masters of the High Renaissance
Evaluate the differences between the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Artistic Renaissance

14. Masters of the High Renaissance 1490-1520
Associated with three artistic giants: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
Leonardo- mastered realistic paintings, dissected bodies.
Raphael- madonnas, frescos in the Vatican palace.
Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel, painter, sculptor, architect.

15. Leonardo da Vinci

16. Raphael- School of Athens

17. Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel

18. Northern Artistic Renaissance
Northern artist of present day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (low countries) focused on creating images for books and wooden altarpiece panels.
Most important school of the low countries was found in Flanders. Jan van Eyck oil painting skills were learned there.
Albrecht Dϋrer, German artist influences by Italians.

19. Eyck- Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride

20. Durer- Adoration of the Magi

21. Assessment
In Class Page 387 1,2, 4-6
Quiz Tuesday

22. Leonardo da Vinci
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