Transcript Renaissance Notes Section 1 and 2

Renaissance (1300-1600)
Chapter 17 Sections 1 and 2
Beginnings of the Renaissance
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Rebirth; rebirth of art
and learning
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Italy’s Advantages
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Thriving cities
Wealthy merchant
class (POWERFUL)
Classical heritage of
Greece and Rome
The Renaissance
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Causes
 Crusades
 Bubonic Plague
 Merchants
Wealthy Merchant Class
 Dominate politics
 Did not inherit social rank;
individual merit
Medici Family
 Ran Florence
Patrons
 Fans of the arts
 Merchants and Church
Officials
Life During the Renaissance
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Humanism
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Change of Thought
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Focus on human potential and
achievements
Realistic style; glorify human
body
Worldly; concerned with the
here and now
Church Officials and People
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Lavish lifestyles
What is your ideal man or
woman?
Men and Women
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Ideal Woman
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Know the classics, charming,
not expect fame
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Inspire art, not create art, little
political and economic power
Ideal Man
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Artistic Geniuses
Charming, witty, polite, and well
educated
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Dance, sing, play music, write
poetry, skilled rider, wrestler,
strong, athletic, and excellent
swordsman.
Renaissance Men Slide Show
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Show Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, and
Leonardo
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Show artwork
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Teach students how to write from Right to Left
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Pass Out Leonardo Worksheet
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Read as a class, have them write five facts
backwards
More than five earns extra credit
Finish Slides (Machiavelli and Printing Press)
The Arts
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Perspective
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Indicates three
dimensions in
drawing and writing
Classical artists used
this.
Disappeared in the
Middle Ages
Reappears during
the Renaissance
Warm-Up:
Read the following passage from
Niccolo Machiavelli
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“My intent being to write a useful work…it seemed
to me more appropriate to pursue the actual truth
of the matter than the imagination of it. Many
have imagined republics and principalities which
were never seen or known really to exist; because
how one lives is so far removed from how one
ought to live that he who abandons what one
does for what one ought to do, learns rather his
own ruin than his preservation.”
Machiavelli
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Wrote The Prince
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Political theories
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Most people are selfish, fickle,
and corrupt
Okay to have a ruler do
something immoral if it was
good for the people
Succeed must be as strong as
a lion and as crude as a fox
Trick enemies and own people
if it was for the good of the
state
Northern Renaissance
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Interested in:
 Classical culture
 Curious about the world
 Belief in human potential
 Freedom of thought
 Education
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Famous Men
 Shakespeare
 Donatello, Leonardo,
Michelangelo, and
Raphael
 Machiavelli
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Johann Gutenberg
 Printing Press
Legacy of the Renaissance
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Desire for learning
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People began to
question
Arts
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Praised individual
achievement
Realistic/lifelike
Assignment
 Let’s
say that right now we are having a
renaissance.
 In your opinion, what would we be
having a rebirth of?
 What are some characteristics of this
rebirth?
Read the following quote from
Niccolo Machiavelli:
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"The answer is, of course, that it would be
best to be both loved and feared. But since
the two rarely come together, anyone
compelled to choose will find greater security
in being feared than in being loved."
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According to Niccolo Machiavelli, there is “greater
security in being feared than in being loved”,
Provide a detailed explanation, in your
introductory and initial body paragraphs why
Machiavelli feels this way.
Feel free to use the handout you received
yesterday to aid in supporting the information in
your essay.