Renaissance%20(Rebirth)

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Renaissance(Rebirth)

• Western Europe
• 1300-1400

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What is the Renaissance?

• A time of rebirth after the disorder and disunity
  of the medieval world
• A time of curiosity and adventure in which
  accepted ways of thinking were challenged
• The ideal Renaissance man had talents in many
  fields

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Beginnings

• Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance
• Interest in the reawakening of ancient Roman
  culture
• Italian cities survived the Middle Ages and
  thrived on trade
• A wealthy and powerful merchant class promoted
  cultural rebirth

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Florence

• Birthplace of the Renaissance
• Emerged as ideal Renaissance city
• Medici family began banking business which soon
  brought them wealth and prestige
• Lorenzo Medici (best known of the family) and a
  huge patron of the arts

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Humanism

• Focused on worldly subjects rather than on
  religious issues
• Critically studied the works of the Greco-Roman
  time period in hopes of better understanding
  their own world
• Petrarch Renaissance humanist who assembled a
  library of Greek and Roman manuscripts, also a
  poet himself

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A Golden Age in the Arts

• Renaissance art reflected humanist interest in
  individual achievement
• Religious figures often portrayed against Greek
  and Roman backgrounds

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Golden Age of the Arts

• Renaissance art was realistic
• Perspective was developed to create a 3
  dimensional illusion
• Renaissance artists studied anatomy to perfect
  the human body in their art (painting and
  sculpture)

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People of the Renaissance
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Important Characters

• Leonardo da Vinci The Renaissance Man
• His talents ranged over many areas
• Painted the Mona Lisa
• Painted the Last Supper
• Studied anatomy, botany, engineering (flying
  machines), art, and architecture
• Wrote ideas and thoughts in journals

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Mona Lisa in Popular Culture
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The Last Supper
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Important Characters

• Michelangelo- Many sided genius (Pieta David)
• Sculpture and Painting
• Painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

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The Pieta
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Important Characters

• Raphael painter, who blended Christian and
  classical styles
• Women artists usually kept their work a secret
  and allowed their husbands to pass it off as
  their own work

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The Small Cowper Madonna
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The School of Athens
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Architecture/ Writings

• Architecture was modeled after Greco-Roman
  architecture, (columns, domes)
• Writings of the New Age focused on how-to books
• Castigliones The book of the Courtier
  described the ideal Courtier
• Machiavellis The Prince cynical work on how
  to gain and maintain power