1. Renaissance

2. Why Italy?  Center of ancient Roman Empire  Lots of Roman remains  Towns were prospering which created wealthy merchants

3. Medici Family  Powerful and wealthy  Held govt. positions  Merchants and bankers  Patrons of the arts

4. New Perspective  People focused on human experience in the present  Emphasized achievement and self improvement  Humanism= study of classical culture and humanities

5. Renaissance Art  Religious figures with Greek or Roman backgrounds  Paintings of well-known figures  Frescos= painting on wet plaster  Perspective= distant objects are smaller, 3 dimensional  Studied human anatomy and drew from live models

6. Renaissance Architecture  No more pointed arches and flying buttresses  Columns, rounded arches, and domes were in

7. Famous Florentines

8. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)  Dissected corpses to see how body works  Works of art= The Last Supper and Mona Lisa  Also an inventor

9. Michelangelo (1475-1564)  Sculptor, architect, painter, and poet  Sculptures= the Pieta and David  Sistine Chapel= 4 years on his back, biblical history of the world  Designed the dome for St. Peter’s Cathedral

10. Raphael (1483-1520)

11. Machiavelli (1469-1527)  It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.  The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.  Politics have no relation to morals.

12. Northern Renaissance

13. Albrecht Durer  “German Leonardo”  Used engravings= design on a metal plate with acid, plate then used to make prints  Madonna at the Moat

14. Pieter Bruegel  Used vibrant colors  Painted scenes of peasant life  The Peasant Dance

15. Thomas More (1478-1535)  Wrote Utopia  Utopian= ideal society

16. Excerpts from Utopia  As long as there is property, and while money is the standard of all things, I cannot think that a nation can be governed either justly or happily; not justly, because the best things will fall to the share of the worst men; nor happily, because all things will be divided among a few (and even those are not in all respects happy), the rest being left to the absolutely miserable.  The only design of the Utopian in war is to obtain that by force, which if it had been granted them in time would have prevented the war.

17. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)  1590-1613 he wrote 37 plays  1,700+ words appeared for the first time in his works, ie. Bedroom, lonely, generous, gloomy, heartsick, hurry, and sneak  To be or not to be, that is the question  What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.  Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind.  To thine own self be true.

18. Johann Gutenberg (1398-1468)  1456 Johann printed a complete edition of the Bible  Printed books now cheaper and easier to buy  More books= more people reading  Gave Europeans new ideas

19. “Renaissance Man”  Ideal Individual= tried to master all areas of study  Young men= charming, witty, well educated in classics; can dance, sing, play music, and write poetry  Women= should know the classics and be charming