Transcript Unit 2 Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation

Lesson 4 The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
Learning Target
Students can explain why historians use the term renaissance for this historical period
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
R – Rebirth of Greek and Roman Classical Culture
 Scholars celebrated secularism, worldly themes, to counteract Church authority in
Rome
 Focused on being an individual and expanding on creative thoughts and ideas
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
E – Established in Italian city-states
 Large urban culture (biggest cities)
 Thriving trade centers and rich sea ports
 Rich middle class commissioned artwork
 Italian soldiers brought back treasures from the Crusades
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
B – Birth of the “modern” world (1350-1600)
 Change occurred because of the Black Death
 Less superstition
 Focused more on education and learning
 Believed people should be happy in this life, not waiting for a better life after death.
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
I – Italian Artists
 Ninja Turtles: Michelangelo, Leonardo (Da Vinci), Raphael, and Donatello
 Reflected the classical Greek and Roman Art (Anatomy, Symmetry, Emotion and
Realism)
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
R – Renaissance spreads from Italy to Northern Europe
 Johannes Gutenberg created the printing press in the 1400’s
 This helped to spread the classical ideas outside of Italy
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
T – Theater
 Shakespeare wrote sonnets (14 lined poems) and plays (comedies and tragedies)
 His works include Romeo and Juliet, Julius Cesar, Macbeth, Hamlet…just to name a
few.
The Renaissance (REBIRTH)
H – Humanism – Key intellectual movement during the Renaissance
 It is the belief that human actions, ideas, and works are important.
 These include art, science, philosophy, history, poetry, grammar, rhetoric, etc.