I' Renaissance 1400 1600 C'E'

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I. Renaissance - 1400 - 1600 C.E.

• Renaissance - rebirth of learning rediscovering
  ancient culture of Greece Rome
• - time of peace prosperity
• - art, architecture, math, science,
  literature, sculpture
• - started in Italy (1300-1600 C.E.)
  

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1. Causes

• Italian City-States were wealthy had
  to spend
• people became patrons of the arts supported
  artists financially
• became interested in ancient Greece Rome

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2. Effects

• first took place in cities - merchants bankers
  had money growth of cities
• challenged the teachings of the Roman Catholic
  Church (R.C.C.)
• Humanism worth uniqueness of the
  individual live life as full
  as possible

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3. Artists

• a. the 3 major themes of the artists were
• 1. Humanism 2. Realism 3. Religion
• b. Da Vinci painter Mona Lisa Last
  Supper

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c. Michelangelo sculpture David Moses
painted Sistine Chapel d. Raphael - portraits of
religious paintings ? contrary to the Renaissance
movement Picasso who used distortion, bright
colors, different sizes
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4. Writers

• a. write in own language vernacular
• b. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius
  Caesar, Romeo Juliet

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c. Machiavelli wrote The Prince - the end
justifies the means - ruler not bound by same
rules as common people - ruler should use any
means necessary to promote the interests
of their nation
Machiavelli would support leaders for using
secret police to silence political opponents
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5. Scientists

• a. Gutenberg - printing press
• Effects Protestant Reformation, ? Power of
  the Roman Catholic Church (R.C.C.), common
  people could read

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• b. Copernicus - earth planets revolve
  around the sun - a.k.a.
  Heliocentric Theory - this
  theory contradicted the Church belief of
  Geocentric Theory which the planets sun
  revolved around the earth

Effect influenced modern astronomy
excommunicated
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• c. Galileo - Scientific Method
  Bacon - observe, measure experiment
• - perfected used the telescope
• Effect influenced science to use scientific
  tools to explain science

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d. DescartesI Think, Therefore I amFounder of
Modern Philosophy