1. Renaissance Ca 1430-1550

2. Define : Duh…rebirth… What does that mean?

3. About the Renaissance Began in Italy  Chief patrons were merchants  So, why there? Spread North  Transformed as it moved  Aggressively applied humanist ideas to the Church Two prongs: Italian and Northern Renaissance

4. Characteristics of Renaissance Art Use of dimension Strive for realism Biblical OR mythological themes Importance of the individual

5. Giotto “The Adoration of the Magi” 1304-1306. Fresco. Capella degli Scrovegni, Padua, Italy

6. Masaccio Saint Peter Baptizing from The Brancacci Chapel,1424-28 fresco 247x172 cm Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence

7. Botticelli The Birth of Venus

8. Da Vinci Vitruvian Man Fetus in Womb

9. The Virgin on the Rocks, c. 1485

10. Rafael School of Athens, 1509-1511

11. Michelangelo 1501-04, marble, 13' 5" high, Florence

12. Sistine Chapel, 1508-12, fresco, 5800 square feet

13. Titian

14. Durer Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, c. 1497-8, woodcut, 15"x 11"

15. Writers… Petrarch Macchiavelli Erasmus Sir Thomas Moore Dante

16. …so, it means what? “The term ‘Renaissance’ captures contemporaries’ sense that they were making a break with the church-centered medieval world and establishing a new concept of man as the center of the world.” ~~Robert Tignor, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

17. What were some results? Increased  Education  Power of national government  Creative writing Decreased  Power of pope