The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance

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The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance

• 12.2

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Italian Renaissance Humanism

• Based on the classics
• Humanities
• Poetry, philosophy and history
• Intellectual life is solitary
• Should serve the state

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Vernacular Literature

• Dante
• Divine Comedy
• Chauncer
• The Canterbuy Tales
• Christine de Pizan
• The Book of the City of Ladies

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Education in the Renaissance

• Important to create complete citizens
• Liberal Studies
• Reach full potential
• Physical Education
• Females
• Rare
• Emphasis on marriage and motherhood

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The Artistic Renaissance in Italy

• Fresco
• Wet plaster with watercolors
• Realism
• Advances in sculpture and architecture
• High Renaissance
• Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo

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The Northern Artistic Renaissance

• Low Country artists
• Books and wooden panels
• Jan van Eyck
• Oil paints
• Durer
• Adoration of the Magi

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