Change and Revolution Period 2

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Florence, Italy

• By Kyle Vincent Dorsey
• Change and Revolution Period 2

Ponte Vecchio in the Evening
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Location

• Central Italy.
• On the Arno River.
• Major cultural and trade center of Europe.
• Origin founding place of the Renaissance

Florences Location in Italy
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Reason and Time of Influence

• Preoccupancy of money from banking and trade
  display wealth and leisure.
• Gave the city time to experiment with the arts.
• Recovery from the Roman Catholic Church crises
  and the Black Death.
• Most influential from the 14th-16th centuries.

Florences Skyline at Night from Piazza
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Key Pieces

• Stimulated works of Francesco Petrarch and
  Giovanni Boccaccio.
• The Arno River runs through the city creating
  room for expansion around population from trade.
• Florence finally took advantage of the awarness
  of its newly educated citizens who could read,
  often had leisure time, and participated often in
  the arts themselves.

Old Renaissance Map of Florence and the Arno
River 2
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New Ideas Pioneered

• Re-evaluation of medieval values.
• Humanist Culture highly developed over time in
  the city.
• A visitation back to and study of classic
  antiquity brought fourth the new ideas and led to
  the Renaissance.

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Influential People

• Michelangelo Buonarotti began his studies of
  painting in Florence with Ghirlandaio, later
  learning the art of sculpting under Lorenzo the
  Magnificent, helping to create the Renaissance
  style.
• Sandro Botticelli was a friend of both
  Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci as also
  principal painter of the Medici family, his
  paintings of classic Renaissance style of
  glorified human achievment often in the sky and
  in motion.

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Part of Michelangelos David Started in 1501,
Completed in 1504
Part of Michelangelos Sistine Creation of Adam
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Botticellis Venus and Mars
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Botticellis Lamentation over the Dead Christ
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Influential Structures

• Church of Santa Felicita, Florence Duomo and
  Campanile (bell tower), and Ponte Vecchio (Old
  Bridge) were the three main structures of
  Florence during the Renaissance as well as they
  are three of the main tourist sites that the city
  has to offer today.

Current Map of Florence and the Arno River 1
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Church of Santa Felicita
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Florence Duomo and Campanile (bell tower) 1
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Florence Duomo and Campanile (bell tower) 2
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Florence Duomo and Campanile (bell tower) 3
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Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) 1
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Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) 2
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Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) 2
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Influence in Other Places

• Florence brought the Renaissance directly to
  other nearby Italian cities such as Venice in
  part, though those cities all developed their own
  similar styles of Renaissance on their own in
  part as well.
• The Renaissance would eventually branch out from
  Florence all across Europe and around the
  Mediterranean region.

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Importance Part I

• Europe may not have gotten back up on its feet
  had it not been for Florence.
• The Renaissance could have taken years to develop
  in any other place or never at all.
• It was partly coincidence that so many great
  minds and people were in the city at the same
  time and were then able to form a new type of
  culture from it.

Current Map of Florence and the Arno River 2

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Importance Part II

• Florence had previously been a major trade route
  intersection before the Renaissance culture came
  to be, but it was now a collaboration place of
  education and creativity that was unique to
  Europe at the time.
• The city had all of the requirements of a
  standard town or community, of the time, simply
  in large proportions.

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Importance Part III

• Florence did not see a very large share of
  conflict around the time of the Renaissance and
  was primarily a peaceful place, which allowed it
  to further develop.
• The city brought wealth back to all of Europe in
  a way that it set the trend and gave an example
  of how other cities could become successful as
  well, though Florence did start out with a great
  deal of wealth before the times of the
  Renaissance.

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Effect on the Renaissance Part I

• Humanism spread through trade from Florence,
  therefore spreading the Renaissance itself.
• Humanism was a tactic that helped all of Europe
  get over devastations such as the Black Plague
  and the crises in the church by getting peoples
  minds in a better place.

Old Renaissance Map of Florence and the Arno
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Effect on the Renaissance Part II

• Rise of the middle class began in Florence, which
  was considered a very balanced and diverse city.
• An town full of educated people brought more
  wealth and power to the region without the
  typical type of work performed for money during
  the previous Middle Ages.

A Rare Snow-covered Florence from the Duomo
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Effect on the Renaissance Part III

• Artistry in not only the forms of paintings and
  statues, but also buildings, made them more
  colorful and decrative to represent happiness
  rather than the darker and colder styles of
  Romanesque and Gothic structures during the
  Medieval Ages.

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Works Cited

• Barton , Sarah. "Overview." Renaissance Florence.
  1 May 2006. Renaissance Florence. 4 Apr 2007
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  udent/Florence/index.html.
• "Florence." Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia. 4
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• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence.
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• 2007 http//www2.kenyon.edu/Depts/IPHS/Pr
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• "Focus on Florence." Renaissance What inspired
  this age of balance and order?. 2007. Anneberg
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