1. The Renaissance means “rebirth”

2. 1350 until 1600
Europe’s cultural awakening=New ideas
Go from Middle Ages to Modern Era

3. Renaissance Video#1

4. Began in Florence, Italy Center of trade in Mediterranean
Italian Renaissance
Began in Florence, Italy
Center of trade in Mediterranean

5. Humanism- Study of humanity
Interest in Greek & Roman classics; more focus on individual
1.) History
2.) Philosophy
3.) Latin
4.) Greek

6. Seeking fulfillment in daily life
Ideal person—who can do anything (Renaissance Man)

7. Humanist Writing- daily life & feelings Petrarch—introduced Sonnet
poetry

8. Italian Cities: Social Order
1.) Wealthy (merchants & bankers)
2.) Middle Class (artisans & shopkeepers)
3.) Lower Class (poor workers)
4.) Peasants (farmers)

9. Florence, Italy Medici family ruled (bankers)
Used tax money to patron artists

10. Brunelleschi- Dome on Cathedral of Florence

11. Donatello- Bronze David

12. Medici Rule Ruled through threats & payoffs
Pazzi family conspiracy – Lorenzo stabbed in church on Easter
Pope puts Florence under interdict & excommunicates Lorenzo
When Lorenzo dies, Renaissance shifts from Florence to Rome

13. Medici Pope Giovanni becomes Pope Leo X Cardinal at age 16
Sold many indulgences – Martin Luther spoke out against him

14. Machiavelli’s The Prince
Supports absolute power
A ruler must do some evil
“The end justifies the means.”

15. Machiavelli
Petrarch

17. Rome, Italy
Pope paid artists to decorate churches

18. St. Peter’s Basilica was built during this time (Michelangelo)

20. Art Lifelike Religious subjects Used perspective (to show depth)
Studied anatomy
Gestures & expressions

21. Leonardo da Vinci -artist, writer, scientist, inventor, etc.
Mona Lisa & Last Supper

25. Michelangelo
Sculpted David & La Pieta
Painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel

30. Northern Renaissance Ideas spread through trade & PRINTING PRESS
1440—Johannes Gutenberg-moveable metal type for printing press

32. Gutenberg Bible

33. Renaissance Video #2

34. Northern Renaissance
Humanism & Christianity together—Christian Humanists
Desiderius Erasmus
The Praise of Folly- criticized Catholic Church

35. Erasmus

36. Northern Renaissance
Jan and Hubert van Eyck
1st to use oil paints
Realism-Scenes of everyday life

38. 1434 – From Arnolfini Portrait

39. Albrecht Durer Paintings & wood cuts “Praying Hands”
Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Durer
Paintings & wood cuts
“Praying Hands”

42. Northern Renaissance 1485-Renaissance comes to England
Sir Thomas More-Criticized English society in Utopia
Need for order & discipline

43. Sir Thomas More

44. Northern Renaissance
William Shakespeare -most famous English Renaissance writer
Romeo and Juliet, MacBeth, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Henry V, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, etc.

45. William Shakespeare