Review

1) What did the Medici Family do?

2) Who was the Renaissance Man?

3) What was the point of Machiavelli’s book The Prince?

Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance

Chapter 5 Section 2

Humanism

• Humanism was an intellectual movement based on the classics, the literary arts of ancient Greece and Rome (ie- poetry, philosophy, and history).

• Petrarch is known as the Father of Renaissance Humanism as he emphasized pure classical Latin.

Petrarch

Vernacular Literature

• Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Vernacular Literature continued….

• Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.

The Canterbury Tales

Vernacular Literature continued…

• Christine de Pizan was a woman who wrote a book in 1404 called The Book of the City of Ladies which denounced the many male writers who argued that women by nature are not able to learn and are easily swayed.

• She argued that women could learn if they were able to attend the same schools as men.

Christine de Pizan

Artistic Renaissance in Italy

• High Renaissance (1490-1520 AD)

• Raphael’s School of Athens

Artistic Renaissance in Italy continued…..

Artistic Renaissance in Italy

• Michelangelo

Artistic Renaissance in Italy

• Michelangelo’s David

Northern Artistic Renaissance

• Northern Artistic Renaissance emphasized illustrated books and wooden panels.

• The most important artistic center in the north was Flanders.

Northern Artistic Renaissance continued…..

• Jan van Eyck

• 1st to use oil paint

Northern Artistic Renaissance continued……

• Albrecht Durer

• Incorporated laws of perspective

• Durer’s Adoration of the Magi

Review

• Who is the father of Renaissance Humanism?

• Who was the first to use oil paint?

• Who added perspective to the Northern Artistic Renaissance?

• What three artists dominated the High Renaissance?