Renaissance

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Renaissance
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Introduction Make a KWL chartAnswers based on
the Renaissance

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Renaissance

• Started as early as 1300, lasted until 1600
• This was a rebirth of learning and arts
• Started in Italy due to three reasons
• Thriving cities (overseas trade)
• Wealthy merchant class
• Classical heritage of Greece and Rome

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Medici Family

• Each city state in Italy ran their own affairs
• Florence came under rule of the Medici family
• They made a fortune in trade and banking
• Cosimo de Medici was the head of the family and
  the wealthiest man in Europe
  

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Medici Family

• 1434 won control of the government in Florence,
  but never ran for office
  
• Lorenzo, his grandson followed him in control of
  Florence
  
• Patrons of arts in their region
• Anything that was need in the Florence went
  through the Medici family

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Medici Family Florence Italy
Lorenzo Di Medici
Cosimo Di Medici
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Terms

• Humanism- focus on human potential and
  achievement
  
• Secular- worldly and concerned with here and now
• Patrons- people who support the art through
  money
  
• Renaissance Man- an individual who strives to
  master almost every area of study
  
• Vernacular- native language

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Petrarch Father of Humanism
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NINJA TURTLES

• Heroes in a Half Shell.Turtle Power!

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Most famous artists of the Renaissance

• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Michelangelo Buonarotti
• Donatello
• Raphael

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Leonardo da Vinci 1457-1519

• Painter, sculptor, inventor and scientist

Famous Works Last Supper, Mona Lisa, Anatomical
Drawings
What are anatomical drawings?
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The perfect harmony and mathematical proportion
of the human form intrigued Leonardo da Vinci.
So accurate it is seen in medical texts today.
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Michelangelo 1457-1564

• Pieta, David, Moses

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Sistine Chapel Four years to complete, an acre
in area
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Donatello David
Made sculpture more realistic by carving natural
postures and expressions that reveal
personalityFirst free standing nude done in
bronze
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Raphael Sistine Madonna, School of Athens,
Transfiguration
Favorite Subject was the Madonna
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FEMALE ARTISTS
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Sofonisba Anguissola

• (soh foh NIHZ bah ahn gwee SOH lah)
• The Artists Sisters Playing Chess
• Became court painter for King Phillip II of
  Spain
  

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Artemisia Gentileschi

• Ahr the MEE zee uh jehn tee LEHS kee
• Judith and the Maidservant
• Depicts the nobility of the biblical heroine
  Judith who saved Israel by killing the enemy
  leader.

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Ghiberti Bronze DoorsGates to Paradise
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Brunelleschi
Architect and engineerDome in Florence
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Hubert van Eyck

• Oil paintings
• Strong bold colors
• Royalty

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Albrecht Durer

• Paintings, engravings and prints
• German DaVinci

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Botticelli Birth of Venus
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Pieter Bruegel
Peasant Wedding

• Lively colors
• Depicted peasant life

Peasant Dance
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Peter Paul Rubens

• Flemish painter large lush style
• Pagan figures from the Classical past
• Spoke six languages

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Hans Holbein

• Portrait of
• Erasmus

• Portrait of
• Sir Thomas More

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Masaccio

• Rediscovered the technique of perspective

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Renaissance Writers
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Baldassare Castiglione

• Wrote about ideal courtier
• Attends the court of a monarch
• The Book of the Courtier
• Well-educated, well-mannered aristocrat

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Niccolo Machiavelli

• It is much safer to be feared than loved
• Machiavelli
• The Prince
• Examines how a ruler can gain power and keep it
  in spite of his enemies

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Sir Thomas More

• Wrote about Utopia
• Ideal society
• No private property, educated citizens

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Dante Alighieri The Divine Comedy

• Epic poem
• 14,000 lines long
• Inferno
• Purgatorio
• Paradiso

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Francois Rabelais

• French humanist
• Wrote novel
• Gargantua and Pantagruel
• Comic adventure
• Offered opinions on education and religion

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Miguel de Cervantes

• Spanish Renaissance
• Don Quixote
• Mocking of medieval chivalry.

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William Shakespeare

• English poet and playwright
• Wrote over 37 plays
• A Midsummer Nights Dream, Romeo and Juliet,
  Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth etc.
  
• Introduced over 1700 words to the English
  language.
  
• Bedroom, lonely, generous, gloomy, heartsick,
  hurry.

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Erasmus

• In Praise of Folly
• Exposed the immoral behavior of the church and
  clergy.
  
• Be open-minded and good will towards others.
• Translated Bible into vernacular
• Produced Greek and Latin translations

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Inventions

• Johann Gutenberg
• Mainz, Germany
• Developed moveable type
• Printing Press
• First document printed using moveable type was
• BIBLE
• How can the printing press change the world?