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Portraiture

• Reflective of Individualism
• Often showed the materialism of the culture
• Ghirlandaio portrait a perfect example

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• BotticelliPortraits of Sandro di Medici and
  unknown woman

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Durer II
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Define humanism

• Secular, but not necessarily anti-Christian
• Greek and Roman
• Focus on explaining humans and human nature
• Learning emphasized

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Great Humanists?

• Petrarch
• Bocaccio
• Mirandola
• Castiglione
• Vergerio
• Bruni
• Valla

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More humanists

• T. More
• Erasmus
• Rabelaiscynic, made fun of those in society he
  found to be contradictory

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Prescriptive literature

• Tells reader how to act
• ExampleCastiglione, Vergerio
• Vernacular
• Common languagehumanist writers

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Is the term Renaissance misleading?

• Secularism and individualism?
• No learning during late mid. Ages?
• Scholasticism?

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What were the components of a great Renaissance
education?

• Liberal education
• History
• Poetry
• Military
• Humble

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How was a Ren. Womans education and life
different from that of a man?

• More poetry and religion
• Less political and social status
• Married young
• Made babies
• More isolated (private sphere)
• Demure/ modest

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Was The Prince misinterpreted?

• Why did M. write the book?
• How was it the first modern treatise on political
  systems?
• Does the welfare of the state justifies
  everything mean the end justifies the means?

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How did politics and social classes begin to
change?

• Popolomiddle class started to increase in size,
  wanted more political power
• Communesfree associations of free individualsin
  towns
• Signoribeyond feudal lords, Despots (sometimes
  enlightened)
• Medici, Sforza, Florence, Milan

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How was Italy divided?

• Duchy of Milan
• Rome and the Papal States
• Republic of Florence
• Naples and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

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Compare the N. Ren. To the Italian Ren

• art and literature?
• Writers?
• Emphasis on Religion?