Transcript 5 Themes of the Renaissance

• The Rebirth of Europe: Assignment #2
Quotes on the Black Death
• Boccacio: The victims “ate lunch with their friend and
dinner with their ancestors in paradise”
• Samuel Pepys: “Realizing what a deadly disaster had
come to them the people quickly drove the Italians
from their city… Fathers abandoned their sick sons.
Lawyers refused to come and make out wills for the
dying. Friars and nuns were left to care for the
sick…Bodies were left in empty houses, and there was
no one to give them a Christian burial.”
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grbSQ6O6kbs
Locus of the Renaissance
Themes of the Renaissance
Italian Renaissance
Characterized by self-conscious awareness
that Italians were living in a new era
Artists of the Renaissance had contempt for
medieval predecessors
Key themes :
 Individualism
 Rationalism
 Secularism
 Humanism
Humanism
Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374
Father of
Humanism
From your HW
• Who were some other key humanists and
what were their contributions?
• How was humanism important in
architecture and city planning?
What elements of humanism do you see in
this painting?
Patronage
• Wealthy merchants employing artists to
paint pictures for and of them
• This is how Leonard da Vinci and
Michelangelo got their start!
Individualism
2. Rationalism
3. Secularism
For Discussion
• What do the themes have in common?
• How do they mark a change in society from
the Middle Ages?
• Are the themes of the Renaissance also
themes of 2012 America? What would you
add or eliminate if anything?
The Northern Renaissance
• Last
quarter of the 15th Century
•Northern Humanists took Italian ideas and
•made it their own.
• More Christian and stressed social
reform based on Christian values
• Combine
the best of classical
and Christian cultures
• Education the key to social and moral reform
Desiderius Erasmus
1466-1536
Christianize the Renaissance
Humanize Christianity
Utopia – Thomas
Moore
What are the basic
principles upon
which a good
society is
organized?
What was it like to be a woman
in the Renaissance?
• Portrait of Christine de
Pisan – humanist
writer
Intro to the XYZ thesis
• “Recipe” for a solid AP Euro thesis
• You will receive a formal “how to” sheet on
Monday, but for today let’s just try it out.
• XYZ means your thesis contains 3 categories.
– The categories must be clear and specific
– They must answer all parts of the question
– TRY IT OUT:
What were the key intellectual beliefs of the
Renaissance and what do those beliefs show about
what society valued during this time?
Medici – Godfathers of the
Renaissance video clip
Make a chart and record information about
Politics/power
Art/culture
Renaissance ideas