Chapter One

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Chapter One

• The Renaissance and Reformation

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What is the Renaissance?

• Renaissance means rebirth
• Characteristics of the Renaissance
• End of the Dark Ages (Medieval Ages)
• Focus on individual achievement
• Revival of interest in the arts and literature
  without influence of religion
• Renewal of interest in education

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Italy Birthplace of the Renaissance

• Why?
• Wealthy city-states
• Competition among the city-states
• Merchants and the Medici Family
• Had leisure time and interest in the arts
• Became patrons of the Arts
• Supported art and artists financially
• Legacy of the Greek and Roman Empires
• Source of inspiration

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Classical and Worldly Values

• Humanism
• study and imitation of the classical authors
• Secularism
• Focused on worldly aspects, not spiritual
• Separation of philosophy and religion
• The Renaissance Man and Woman
• Man must excel at many different things
• Woman must be charming and entertaining

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Renaissance Artists

• Renaissance Italy had many talented and famous
  artists
• Leonardo daVinci (1452-1519)
• Michelangelo (1475-1564)
• Raphael (1483-1520)
• Donatello (1386-1466)

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Leonardo daVinci
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The Mona Lisa
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The Last Supper
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Vitruvian Man
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The Flying Machine
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Skeletons
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War Machine
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Michelangelo
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The David
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The Last Judgment
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The Sistine Chapel
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Creation of Man
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The Pieta
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Raphael
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The School of Athens
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Leo X with Two Cardinals
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Donatello
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Virgin with Child
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Statue of David
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Lamentation over the Dead
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Renaissance Writers

• Vittoria Colonna
• Famous noblewoman and poet
• Francesco Petrarch
• Humanist poet, author of Sonnets to Laura
• Dante Alighieri
• Poet, wrote the The Divine Comedy
• Niccolo Machiavelli
• Florentine politician, author of The Prince
• A Handbook for political leaders
• Do what is politically effective, not morally
  correct