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2.  Italian Renaissance Humanism  Characterized by secularism and individualism  Noticeable in intellect and art  Humanism: study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, philosophy, and history

3.  Italian Renaissance Humanism  Petrarch  Father of Italian Renaissance humanism  Emphasized using pure classical Latin  Intellectual life was one of solitude  Rejected family and community  1400’s humanist believed in performing civic duties

4.  Vernacular Literature  Scholars, lawyers, theologians wrote in the vernacular- language of their region  Italian authors who wrote in the vernacular  Dante  Divine Comedy-story of soul’s journey to salvation. Long poem divided into three parts: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven  --There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery—Dante, Divine Comedy  --Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge—Dante, Divine Comedy

5.  Vernacular Literature  Geoffrey Chaucer  The Canterbury Tales  Story of 29 Pilgrims journey to tomb of St. Thomas a 'Becket at Canterbury  Portrayed English society from high to low class

6.  Vernacular Literature  Christine de Pizan  Frenchwoman  Wrote in defense of women  The Book of the City of Ladies  Denounced male writers who said that women were unable to learn and were easily swayed  Argued that women could learn as well as men

7.  Education in the Renaissance  Renaissance humanist believed education could change human beings-produce people of virtue (moral excellence, goodness, righteous) and wisdom, model citizens  Stressed physical education  Javelin throwing, archery, dancing, running, wrestling, hunting, and swimming  Liberal studies core of humanist schools  History, moral philosophy, rhetoric(study of effective use of language), grammar and logic (reasoning), poetry, mathematics, astronomy, and music.

8.  Education in the Renaissance  Females absent from schools  Few who did studied history, riding, dance, singing, playing the lute, and poetry  Learned religion and morals to be good wives and mothers

9.  The Artistic Renaissance in Italy  Imitated nature in their works  Onlookers should see reality

10.  New Techniques in Painting  Fresco’s by Masaccio—first masterpieces of early Renaissance  Mastered laws of perspective, created illusions of three dimensional art.  Medieval art was flat, Renaissance came to life

11.  New Techniques in Painting  Two major developments of Renaissance Art  1. used perspective, organization of outdoor space and light through geometry  2. investigation of movement and human anatomy, especially the human nude.

13.  Sculpture and Architecture  Donatello-studied in Rome  Studied statues of Greeks and Romans

14.  Filippo Brunelleschi  Architect inspired by buildings of classical Rome.  Designed the church of San Lorenzo for the Medici family of Florence

15.  Masters of the High Renaissance  Final stage of Italian Renaissance painting called the High Renaissance  Produced three artistic giants—Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo

16.  Leonardo da Vinci  Mastered the art of realistic painting, dissected human bodies(to see how nature worked)  Which is da Vinci most famous painting?

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18.  Raphael  Regarded as Italy’s best painter at age 25  Famous for paintings of Madonnas and School of Athens

19.  Michelangelo  A painter, sculptor, and architect  Famous for paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome

21.  Statue of David by Michelangelo