Transcript The Renaissance: - Skyview High School

Chapter 1 Section 2 Reading
Focus
• Which artists brought the Renaissance to
northern Europe?
• What themes did humanist thinkers and
other writers explore?
• What impact did the printing revolution
have on Europe?
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Chapter 1 Section 2 Vocabulary
• Engraving- art form in which an artist
etches a design on metal plate with acid
and then uses the plate to make prints.
• Vernacular- everyday language of ordinary
people.
• Utopian- the ideal society
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Background
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1050–1350
Population growth
Economic
development
City-states
1200–late 1500s
Artistic
achievements
Giovanni Bellini,
Sacra
Conversazione
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Intellectual Developments
Titian,
Assumption of
the Virgin
• Humanism
• Revival of antiquity
• Importance of the
individual
• Celebration of
humanity
• Secular/worldly
focus
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Humanism and Individuality
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Ghiberti’s Doors
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Ghiberti’s Doors
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Donatello’s David
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Michelangelo’s David
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Renaissance Architecture
• Classical
influences
• Mathematical
harmony
• The circle
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Brunelleschi’s Dome
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St. Peter’s Basilica
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Inside St. Peter’s
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Inside St. Peter’s
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Inside St. Peter’s
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The Northern Renaissance
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Albrecht Dürer
• 1471–
1528
• Introduce
d Italian
Renaissa
nce style
of art to
Germany
Dürer, self-portrait
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Hans Holbein the Younger
• 1497–1543
• German
painter
• Became
court
painter to
King Henry
VIII of
England
Holbein, self-portrait
A Holbein portrait of
King Henry VIII
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• 1390–1441
• Painted in oils
• Detail,
realism
Van Eyck, Man in a Red
Turban (possibly a selfportrait)
Jan van Eyck
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The Northern Renaissance
• More focused on
Christianity than
the Italian
Renaissance
• Began late 15th
century/early
16th century
Altarpiece for the Cathedral of St. Bavo in Ghent,
created by Northern Renaissance artist Jan van Eyck
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The Printing Press
• Invented by Johann
Gutenberg in the mid1400s
• Made printed works
cheaper and more
readily available
• Increased literacy in
Europe
• Helped spread new
ideas
A replica of Gutenberg’s printing press22
Christian Humanism
Christian humanist
scholar Desiderius
Erasmus
• Union of
classical
influences and
Christianity
• Desiderius
Erasmus
(1466–1536)
• Influence on
northern
Renaissance
art
A woodcut of Adam and Eve by
Albrecht Durer, a German
Renaissance artist
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Renaissance Politics and
Economics: Legacy
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