Transcript The Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance
Jonelle Formato
History WebQuest
April 4, 2005
The End of the Middle Ages
• There was a feudal system in which the
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peasants worked for the nobles to get protection
and land.
The nobles living in the country gave protection
to the king in which they received land for it.
When the threat of invasion from barbarians had
lessened, people left the country for towns and
cities so they could engage in more profitable
pursuits.
The Black Death
1350-1450
• The Bubonic Plague took out nearly half of the
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population.
It was passed on through close contact with
others. It spread rapidly through the cities.
To escape it you had to leave the cities. Only the
wealthy had the means to do that.
This led to an economic depression since those
who survived and were around couldn’t afford
anything.
The Transition Period
• Once the plague started to decrease the
population started to increase again.
• The merchants, bankers and tradespeople
once again had a market for their goods
and services.
• The Renaissance was about to take place.
The Beginning of the
Renaissance
• Renaissance meant the “rebirth.”
• Europe emerged from the economic problems of
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the Middle Ages and came to see a financial
growth during the Renaissance.
The Renaissance was an age in which artistic,
social, scientific, and political thought turned in
new directions.
The birth place of the Renaissance was
considered to be Florence, Italy.
Italy
Florence
Florence, Italy
• Florence was an independent city-state. It was
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governed by 12 guilds (masons, sculptors,
bankers, textile workers and lawyers).
One source of wealth was the manufacturing of
cloth/wool.
The bankers were well known and the florin,
Florence gold coin, was extremely reliable that it
was used as the standard throughout Europe.
Medici Family
• Cosimo the Elder (top),
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the Patriarch of the family
started the Renaissance
by reintroducing Plato
and humanists thinking.
Lorenzo the Magnificent
(bottom),was known to
many as the Father of the
Renaissance. He
sponsored writers, artists,
sculptors, painters and
philosophers.
Influential People of the
Renaissance
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Sandro Botticelli (La
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Primavera)
Filippo Brunelleschi
(Florence’s Duomo)
Dante Aligheri (The
Divine Comedy)
Giotto di Bondone
(Giotto’s Tower-part of the
Duomo)
• Francesco Petrarca
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(Humanist)
Galileo Galilei
Girolamo Savonarola
(Political Monk)
Pico della Mirandola
Niccolo` Machiavelli
(Il Principe)
Giovanni Bocaccio
Michelangelo, Savonarola,
Galileo and Dante
What the Renaissance Brought
to Us
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Sistine Chapel
Study of the Human Proportion
The Telescope
Frescoes
Renaissance architecture-domes, columns and
symmetrical decorations
Chiaroscuro (light and dark)
Opera
References
• http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissanc
e/middleages.html
• http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/pe
ople_n2/persons6_n2/medici.html
• http://galileo.rice.edu/gal/florence.html
• http://www.michelangelo.com/buon/bioindex2.html