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Title: The Renaissance


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The Renaissance
  • The European World

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What is the Renaissance?
  • a rebirth of art and learning that began in
    northern Italy around 1300 and later spread north

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Italys Advantages
  • Urban Centers
  • cities are often places where people exchange new
    ideas
  • an ideal breeding ground for an intellectual
    revolution

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Italys Advantages
  • Classical Heritage
  • Italian artists and scholars drew inspiration
    from the ruins of Rome that surrounded them

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Italys Advantages
  • The Medici Family
  • Florence came under the rule of the powerful
    Medici family, who made a fortune in trade and
    banking

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Italys Advantages
  • Merchants
  • believed they deserved power and wealth because
    of their individual merit and achievement

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The Renaissance Man
  • the ideal individual strove to master almost
    every area of study
  • a man who excelled in many fields was praised as
    a universal man

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The Renaissance Women
  • upper-class women knew the classics
  • expected to inspire art, but rarely create it

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What is Humanism?
  • focused on human potential and achievements
  • understand ancient
  • Greek values
  • popularized the
  • study of subjects common to classical education
  • history
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • influenced artists and architects to carry on
    classical traditions
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