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Title: Renaissance


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Renaissance
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Vocab must know words
  • Renaissance
  • Quattrocento
  • Artisan
  • Vertu
  • Humanism
  • Perspective
  • Book of the Courtier
  • Rhetoric
  • city-states

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How was it born (re-born)?
  • Contemporary use of Renaissance
  • Italian towns foster secularism, individualism,
    consumerism and art
  • City-states independent, absence of pope (at
    Avignon) merchant oligarchies
  • Florence
  • Medici
  • Appreciation of powers of man
  • Validation of man in Cicero, etc
  • Virtu Roman concept of manliness, excellence in
    all

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Arts
  • New artistic forms three dimensional space,
    realistic images, classical themes
  • Architecture secular buildings, roman forms,
    BRUNELLESCHI
  • Sculpture free standing, classical models,
    mythology
  • Donatello

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Painting
  • Used mathematics of perspective to achieve
    three-dimensionality
  • Religious subjects/but new
  • Individual portraiture reflects nature of subject

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literature
  • Humanism human letter
  • Life work
  • Some women
  • Latin
  • Cult of the ancients
  • Vernacular Italian
  • Petrarch
  • Boccaccio

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Education
  • Humanists education for life well rounded,
    morally committed

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Marriage
  • Men in 30s women in late teens
  • Women in domestic sphere, civilizing influence

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Politics!!
  • City states not unified
  • Often at war
  • Republican gov. gives way to oligarchy(p68)
  • Machiavelli called for Italian unity
  • Italian states vulnerable to new emerging
    nation-states (France Italy 1494, Spain Rome
    1527)
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