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• The Renaissance in Italy
• Objectives
• Describe the characteristics of the Renaissance
  and understand why it began in Italy
• Identify Renaissance artists and explain how new
  ideas affected the arts of the period
• Understand how writers of the time addressed
  Renaissance themes

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I. What was the Renaissance?

• The Renaissance
• A time of creativity and change in
• Politics
• Society
• Economics
• Culture
• It will begin in the 1300s and peak around 1500
• A New World Evolves
• Renaissance Rebirth
• Rebirth from a time that saw disorder and
  disunity from the medieval world
• Reawaken the interest in the classic learning of
  Greece and Rome
• Use of Latin as the language of the Church and
  Scholars
• New attitudes toward culture and learning
• Medieval times focused on spirituality and
  religious beliefs
• Renaissance explored the richness and variety of
  human experiences
• Society placed a new emphasis on individual
  achievement
• Renaissance Ideal was a person with a wide
  variety of talent in different areas

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• Spirit of Adventure
• Renaissance supported new ideas
• Curiosity led people to explore
• Giovanni Pico del Mirandola
• To man it is granted to have whatever he
  chooses, to be whatever he wills
• What does this mean?
• Expressing Humanism
• Humanism
• Intellectual movement that focused on education
  and the classics
• The classics were used to increase their
  understanding of their own times
• Worldly Subjects
• Grammar
• History
• Rhetoric
• Poetry
• Philosophy
• Petrach
• Early Renaissance humanist
• Considered the Father of Italian Renaissance
  Humanism

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II. Italy Cradle of the Renaissance

• The Renaissance begins in Italy and transforms
  the rest of the Western World
• History and Geography
• Rome
• Interest in the Ancient ways
• Architecture and art
• Roman Catholic Church
• Based in Rome
• Supported many of the artist and architects of
  the Renaissance
• Mediterranean Sea
• Major Trade Route
• Center of trade with Muslim world
• Not just trade of items but ideas

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• The City State
• Divided Italy
• Controlled by powerful families
• Florence
• Controlled by the de Medici Family
• Family of skilled bankers
• Cosimo de Medici
• Gained control of Florence in 1434
• Lorenzo the Magnificent
• Generous patron of the arts

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III. Renaissance Art Flowers

• Reflection of Humanism
• Portrayed religious themes
• However, set against classic backgrounds
• Revival of Classical forms of art
• Donatello
• Greatest sculptor of all time
• Gattamelata, Soldier on Horseback
• First giant sculpture since ancient times
• New Techniques
• Realistic
• Medieval art was stylized
• Return to the classics
• Perspective
• Distant objects are smaller than closer objects
  to the viewer
• Painting seem three dimensional
• Shading
• Gives the appearance of reflections of light
• Human Anatomy
• Use of Live models

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• Architecture
• Begin adopting the styles of Greece and Rome
• Columns
• Arches
• Domes
• Brunelleschi
• The Dome in Florence
• Modeled the dome of the Pantheon

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• Leonardo da Vinci
• Artist
• Mona Lisa
• Last Supper
• Architect
• Inventor
• Flying machines
• Undersea boats
• Tanks
• Weapons
• Scientist
• Dissected corpses to learn about the body

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• Michelangelo
• Melancholy genius
• His work reflects life long spiritual and
  artistic struggles
• David
• Biblical Sheppard that slays the giant Goliath
• Pieta
• Captures the sorrow of the Biblical Mary as she
  cradles her dead son Jesus
• Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
• Depicted the history of the Bible from Creation
  to the Flood(Noahs Ark)
• Took 4 years to complete
• Left partially cripple

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• Raphael
• Considered one of the greatest artists of all
  time
• Best known for his Madonnas
• Statues of the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus
• Viewed as tender portrayals
• School of Athens
• Fictitious gathering of all of the greatest
  thinkers of all time
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Socrates
• Averroes
• Also included, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Himself

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IV. Writing for a New Society

• Castigliones The Book of the Courtier
• Describes the manners and skills of the members
  of the court should have
• Men are
• Athletic, but not overactive
• Not a gambler
• Knows music and history
• Not arrogant
• Women are
• Graceful
• Kind
• Lively, but reserved
• Beautiful
• The perfect balance of man
• Machiavellis The Prince
• A guide to obtaining and maintaining power
• THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS
• Use whatever methods to achieve your goals