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"Imagine that you have lived in Florence,
Italy immediately following the Black
Death. You have survived, but many
around you have not. Describe your
environment. How do you feel?"
Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
Learning Targets and
Intentions of the Lesson1. KNOW the economic and political causes
for the rise of the Italian city-state of Florence,
Milan, Naples, Rome and Venice. 2.
UNDERSTAND and recognize major influences
of the Renaissance on the architectural,
artistic, and literary developments of Europe.
3. Identify the artistic contributions of
selected Renaissance artists (SKILL).
Renaissance
• Means
REBIRTH
• Rebirth of art
and learning
• Began in
northern Italy
“Italian Renaissance”
Objectives
1.) During the middle ages
• Find God
• Prove pre-conceived ideas
2.) During the Renaissance
• Find man
• Promote learning
• Man loves himself again
Contrast to grimness of the Middle Ages
Wars Plagues
Spend life
preparing for
the afterlife
Decreased
power of the
church
A Visual Metaphor of the Renaissance
What was the Renaissance?
• Period following the middle ages
• “Rebirth” of classical Greece and Rome
• 1st period to name itself and say bad things about earlier times (Dark Ages)
• NAMES FOR ARTISTS
• Began in Italy
• Moved to northern Europe
Economic Foundations• Increased demand for
Middle Eastern products
• Encouraged the use of
credit and banking
• Letters of credit expanded
supply of money and sped
up trade.
• New accounting and
bookkeeping practices
used Arabic numerals
Major Italian Cities.
Many independent city-states emerged in northern and central Italy that played an important role in Italian politics and art.
Milan Venice
Florence
Milan
One of the richest cities, it controls trade through the Alps.
Venice
Sitting on the Adriatic, it attracts trade from all over the world.
Florence
Controlled by the De Medici Family, who became great patrons of the arts (AKA Bored
Rich people)
Genoa
Genoa
Had Access to Trade Routes
Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets
Competition with each other
• Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe
• Were initially independent city-states governed as republics
Beginning of the
Renaissance in
Europe
Growth of the
Trade and Commerce
Crusades connect with Muslims
Muslims
introduce
new ideas
Cities and Merchants grow
Influence of City States
Trade = Wealth
Rich Families Support Arts
The Growth of
Humanism
Greece and Rome Change ideas about government, religion, social class
Tried to improve on old
things “Humanities” in Education
Niccolo Machiavelli• Wrote The Prince
• guidelines for the how to get power by absolute rule.
• Believed the ends justified the means
• One should do goodif possible, but do evil when necessary.
Art and Literature• Medieval art and
literature focused on the Church and salvation.
• Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.
Artists and Writers
• Artists
•Leonardo da
Vinci
•Michelangelo
• Writers
•Petrarch
Leonardo da Vinci
• Painted the MonaLisa and The LastSupper
• Handsome, athletic, singer, artist, scientist, inventor
Michelangelo• Painted the
ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel
and sculpted
David
• Sculptor, painter,
architect, poet
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Pieta
David
Petrarch
• Wrote Sonnets
• He wrote with a Humanisticapproach
• Considered the “Father of Humanism”
Humanism - system of thought attaching prime importance to
human rather than divine or supernatural matters, and seek solely
rational ways of solving human problems.
• Celebrated the individual
• Stimulated the study of
Greek and Roman
literature and culture
• Humanists were supported
by PATRONS who were
very wealthy
The Vitruvian Man
Northern Renaissance• With the rise of trade,
travel and literacy, the
Italian Renaissance
spread to northern
Europe.
• The art and literature
changed as people of
different cultures
adopted Renaissance
ideas.
Northern Renaissance Writers• Erasmus—The
Praise of Folly (1511)
• Critical of corruptchurch practices
• Catalyst for Protestant Reformation
Northern Renaissance Writers• Sir Thomas More
—Utopia (1516)
• Depicts world with
perfect social, legal
and political
system
• Leading humanist
scholar