Renaissance

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Renaissance

• Ca 1430-1550

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Define

• Duhrebirth
• What does that mean?

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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

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Characteristics of Renaissance Art

• Use of dimension
• Strive for realism
• Biblical OR mythological themes
• Importance of the individual

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

• Saint Peter Baptizingfrom The Brancacci
  Chapel,1424-28fresco 247x172 cmSanta Maria del
  Carmine, Florence

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Botticelli

• The Birth of Venus

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Da Vinci

• Vitruvian Man
• Fetus in Womb

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The Virgin on the Rocks, c. 1485
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Rafael

• School of Athens, 1509-1511

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Michelangelo

• 1501-04, marble, 13' 5" high, Florence

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Sistine Chapel, 1508-12, fresco, 5800 square feet
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Titian
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Durer
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, c. 1497-8,
woodcut, 15"x 11"
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Writers

• Petrarch
• Macchiavelli
• Erasmus
• Sir Thomas Moore
• Dante

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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

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What were some results?

• Increased
• Education
• Power of national government
• Creative writing
• Decreased
• Power of pope