The Renaissance

Homework:

Renaissance Quiz Wed

Dinner Party due Wed

S & C America Map due

Friday

April 27, 2015

Florence was…

the cultural center of the

Renaissance

But Why?

How?

Architecture

28.3

Three ideas the Renaissance used

from Rome/ Greece and Humanist

ideas?

•Dome

•Columns

•Arches

•Open space so they could socialize

(good citizenship)

How did Brunelleschi build

the dome?

•He used 8 arches that met in the

middle that supported the most weight

Painting

28.4

Briefly describe how classical

cultures and humanism influenced

Renaissance painters.

• Realistic with emotions – Classical

• Showed real people of all social

classes and self-portraits - Humanism

Advances in paintings

•Lifelike

•Perspective – making the painting look 3-D

•Making objects smaller and larger

•Depth

•Lines that meet in the middle of a painting

•Oil painting

•Careful shading

•Geometry divides up the spaces

Botticelli painted

Adoration of the

Magi in about 1482.

In the left column of

the chart

below, list at least

two details from the

image. In the right

column, identify the

perspective

technique Botticelli

used for each.

How were the Renaissance

sculptors influenced?

•Realistic like Rome

•Free standing like Rome & Greece

•The statues had personality

Some great sculptors of the

time were:

Michelangelo

Donatello

• Huge

• Beautiful

• Shows emotions

• Life-sized & natural

• Shows personality

• Shows emotions

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Literature

Dante Alighieri, a

Renaissance author in

Florence, wrote a long

narrative poem called

The Divine Comedy.

This plaque in Florence

shows Dante with

scenes described in his

poem. The city of

Florence is shown on

the right.

Two ways in which Renaissance

Literature differed from Medieval

Literature

• Secular topics and personal experiences

that expressed personal thoughts and

emotions and wrote in local languages –

Renaissance

• Religious, and very impersonal Wrote in

Latin – Medieval

How is Dante’s “The Divine

Comedy” an example of

humanism?

• It includes real people and shows

emotion while talking about the

experience of individual people.

Advances in Science

& Math

Leonardo is said to have painted in the church of

Orsanmichele. But his skills and interests took

him all over Florence. No matter where Leonardo

was, he constantly searched for knowledge. He

kept detailed notes and complex drawings on

hundreds of subjects. Many of these drawings

anticipated inventions long before their time.

Most of the 4,200 pages of notes he kept were

written in reverse script, or backward, so that they

could only be read easily if held up to a mirror.

Some historians think Leonardo did this to

prevent people from stealing his ideas.

How did the study of science

change during the

Renaissance?

•They questioned old ideas, made

observations, performed experiments,

and analyzed results

(does this sound familiar)

Who was one of the most

influential thinkers of the

Renaissance?

•Leonardo da Vinci

1. Flying Machine

2. Four-wheeled

armored tank

3. Proportions of a

human head

4. Physics and

geometry

calculations

Politics

The Quotes are on the table

directly in front of this one!

Make sure to comment!

How were the Medicis able to

rule for so long?

•They built a powerful army, involved of every

aspect of city life, sponsored all types of arts,

and defeated their enemies

One day a revolution broke out and the Medici went

into temporary exile….in the mean time a man

named Machiavelli wrote The Prince

Machiavelli’s The Prince

•It was really important because it

showed how the government of Italy

really worked during the

Renaissance and how governments

could make themselves stronger

•Very real (somewhat cruel) –

separated religion and government

Commerce & Trade

During the Renaissance,

florins, the coins of

Florence, were the most

valuable coins in all of

Europe. This one features a

portrait of Lorenzo de

Medici, known as "the

Magnificent."

What industries helped Florence

become the center of the

Renaissance?

• Woolen Cloth

• Banking

What were 2 differences between

Florence’s Old Market & New

Market?

• Crowded & Smelly with everyday

goods (food,etc) – Old Market

• Clean & Orderly with cloth and

banking – New Market