Renaissance

1
Renaissance

• Changes in European
• thought and culture

2
Humanism

• No longer is the church seen as the only one who
  knows best morally
• Humans begin thinking about themselves and their
  own needs
• Humans can determine between right and wrong
  based on thought, reason, and rationale

3
Machiavelli

• Author of The Prince
• Known as the Father of Political Science
• His advise to monarchs
• It is best to be both feared and loved however,
  if one cannot be both it is better to be feared
  than loved.
• Why?
• Men will behave if he fears his leader

4
Shakespeare

• Influenced modern forms of writing
• Dramas and Plays
• Prose and poetry
• Lines had multiple meanings
• Created new vocabulary we use today
• Amazement
• Premeditated
• Lackluster
• Put truth and love into words with Romeo Juliet

5
Leonardo da Vinci -the Renaissance Man

• Scientist
• Observed everything around him
• Anatomy animal sketches
• Vitruvian Man
• Inventor
• Envisioned/sketched new machines for a new world
• Helicopter
• Tank
• Artist
• Realism true life is reflected in paintings
• Perspective objects that are further away are
  smaller
• Mona Lisa
• The Last Supper

6
Michelangelo

• Painted large frescoes
• Murals on walls
• Ceiling of Sistine Chapel
• Biblical people and stories
• Chiseled life-like marble sculptures
• David
• Pieta
• (Mary and Crucified Jesus)
• Architect
• Helped design St. Peters Basilica and its
  massive dome
• Refused to be paid for the work

7
St. Peters Dome

• Designed by Michelangelo
• Engineering feat
• 138 diameter
• Slightly smaller than Pantheon dome, but stands
  much higher
• 452 above the street
• Designed with classical Greek Roman style
• Largest church in Christendom
• Located in Vatican City, inside Rome, Italy
• Residence of the Catholic Pope