5 Themes of the Renaissance

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• The Rebirth of Europe Assignment 2

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Quotes on the Black Death

• Boccacio The victims ate lunch with their
  friend and dinner with their ancestors in
  paradise
• Samuel Pepys Realizing what a deadly disaster
  had come to them the people quickly drove the
  Italians from their city Fathers abandoned their
  sick sons. Lawyers refused to come and make out
  wills for the dying. Friars and nuns were left
  to care for the sickBodies were left in empty
  houses, and there was no one to give them a
  Christian burial.
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vgrbSQ6O6kbs

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Locus of the Renaissance
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Themes of the Renaissance
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Italian Renaissance

• Characterized by self-conscious awareness that
  Italians were living in a new era
• Artists of the Renaissance had contempt for
  medieval predecessors
• Key themes
• Individualism
• Rationalism
• Secularism
• Humanism

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Humanism
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Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374
Father of Humanism
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From your HW

• Who were some other key humanists and what were
  their contributions?
• How was humanism important in architecture and
  city planning?

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What elements of humanism do you see in this
painting?
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Patronage

• Wealthy merchants employing artists to paint
  pictures for and of them
• This is how Leonard da Vinci and Michelangelo got
  their start!

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Individualism
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2. Rationalism
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3. Secularism
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For Discussion

• What do the themes have in common?
• How do they mark a change in society from the
  Middle Ages?
• Are the themes of the Renaissance also themes of
  2012 America? What would you add or eliminate if
  anything?

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The Northern Renaissance

• Last quarter of the 15th Century
• Northern Humanists took Italian ideas and
• made it their own.

• More Christian and stressed social
• reform based on Christian values

• Combine the best of classical
• and Christian cultures

• Education the key to social and moral reform

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Desiderius Erasmus 1466-1536
Christianize the Renaissance
Humanize Christianity
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Utopia Thomas Moore What are the
basic principles upon which a good society
is organized?
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What was it like to be a woman in the Renaissance?

• Portrait of Christine de Pisan humanist writer

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Intro to the XYZ thesis

• Recipe for a solid AP Euro thesis
• You will receive a formal how to sheet on
  Monday, but for today lets just try it out.
• XYZ means your thesis contains 3 categories.
• The categories must be clear and specific
• They must answer all parts of the question
• TRY IT OUT
• What were the key intellectual beliefs of the
  Renaissance and what do those beliefs show about
  what society valued during this time?

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Medici Godfathers of the Renaissance video clip

• Make a chart and record information about
• Politics/power Art/culture Renaissance ideas