Ch. 12: The Early Renaissance

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Ch. 12 The Early Renaissance
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• Terms/Names
• Medici family
• Perspective (in art)
• Neoplatonism
• Platonic love
• Pagan
• Aldine Press
• Moveable type

• Featured Works
• Donatellos David
• Michelangelos David
• Botticellis La Primavera
• Leonardo da Vincis The Last Supper
• Machiavellis The Prince

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Florence and the Medici Family

• What five factors made Florence strong and stable
  during the early Renaissance and, therefore,
  helped make it a center for the development the
  arts?
• In general, what was the significance of the
  Medici family for Florence and the arts?

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The Artists and Their Works

• Be able to explain the significance for the
• arts of each of the following artists and
• works
• Donatello, David
• Botticelli, La Primavera (next slide)

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• La Primavera (Botticelli)

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Art, continued

• Leonardo da Vinci, his Notebooks and his art,The
  Last Supper (next slide)
• Michelangelos David

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• The Last Supper (da Vinci)

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Humanism

• Read the definitions that I gave you at the
  beginning of the semester.
• How does your author (not Michelet or Burckhardt)
  sum up Renaissance Humanism? (p.287)
• What is the relationship between printing
  technology and the spread of Humanism?
• How did women play a role (or not) in Renaissance
  intellectualism?

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Humanism, continued

• You should be able to discuss the Humanism of
  Machiavelli and Erasmus and explain how their
  major works (The Prince and The Praise of Folly)
  demonstrate a fundamental difference.