Transcript The One About the Renaissance

Mrs. Robinson
World History
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•Renaissance means –rebirth.
•During the 1350-1550’s Italians thought they saw a rebirth of the
Greek and Roman worlds.
•Renaissance = a new age in Europe
•The Renaissance was an age of recovery
from the disasters of the 14th century 
plague, political instability, decline of Church
power.
•There came a rebirth of interest in Greek
and Roman culture.
•Italians became very interested in their
Roman pasts  this affected both politics
and art.
• The Medici’s controlled Florence from behind the
scenes.
•They were very rich and dominated the most important
city in Italy at the time.
•The family was put out of power by Savonarola, but
later returned to power when he was accused of heresy.
•A new view of humans began in Italy.
•They began to emphasize individual abilities high regard for the worth of humans.
•“Men can do all things if they will.”
•A well rounded, universal person was capable of achievements in many areas of life.
•Machiavelli’s book, The Prince, is one of the most
influential books on political power.
•Prince’s must let go of morality/consciences in order to
rule well.
“But one must know how to color one’s actions and to be a
great liar and deceiver. Men are so simple, and so much
creatures of circumstance, that the deceiver will always find
someone ready to be deceived.”
-The Prince
•Nobles again dominated society 
political positions; advisers to the
king.
•Peasants were still biggest population.
•Serfdom was coming to an end in the
Renaissance.
•More peasants were becoming legally
free.
•Renaissance Townspeople were diverse.
•At the top were:
patricians  trade, banking
burghers shopkeepers, artisans
•Below them were the workers and
the unemployed.
“Those that are lazy in a way that does harm to the city,
and who can offer no just reason for their condition, should
either be forced to work or expelled from the city. The city
would thus rid itself of that most harmful part of the
poorest class.”
-Rich Merchant
•The humanist movement was a key belief.
•Emphasized secularism and the individual
person.
•Humanists study the classics  Humanities
•Was inspired by Roman architecture for his dome in Florence.
•The Duomo of Florence was the first of its kind.
Renaissance life-like sculptor.
•The High Renaissance took place between 1490 and 1520.
•It’s the final stage of the artistic movement.
•Associated with the three masters: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and
Michelangelo.
•Painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer.
•Wanted to capture the perfection of people and
nature.
•One of the best artists in Italy in his time
•Wanted to make his paintings have an
ideal beauty, outshining any human
standards.
•Asked to paint the chapel of the Vatican.
•Developed paintings with perfect proportions  the more beautiful the
body, the more god-like the person.