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Renaissance
Why Italy?
 Center of ancient Roman Empire
 Lots of Roman remains
 Towns were prospering which created
wealthy merchants
Medici Family
 Powerful and wealthy
 Held govt. positions
 Merchants and
bankers
 Patrons of the arts
New Perspective
 People focused on
human experience in
the present
 Emphasized
achievement and self
improvement
 Humanism= study of
classical culture and
humanities
Renaissance Art
 Religious figures with
Greek or Roman
backgrounds
 Paintings of well-known
figures
 Frescos= painting on wet
plaster
 Perspective= distant
objects are smaller, 3
dimensional
 Studied human anatomy
and drew from live models
Renaissance Architecture
 No more pointed
arches and flying
buttresses
 Columns, rounded
arches, and domes
were in
Famous Florentines
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
 Dissected corpses to
see how body works
 Works of art= The Last
Supper and Mona Lisa
 Also an inventor
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
 Sculptor, architect,
painter, and poet
 Sculptures= the Pieta
and David
 Sistine Chapel= 4
years on his back,
biblical history of the
world
 Designed the dome for
St. Peter’s Cathedral
Raphael (1483-1520)
Machiavelli (1469-1527)
 It is better to be feared
than loved, if you
cannot be both.
 The more sand has
escaped from the
hourglass of our life,
the clearer we should
see through it.
 Politics have no
relation to morals.
Northern Renaissance
Albrecht Durer
 “German Leonardo”
 Used engravings=
design on a metal
plate with acid, plate
then used to make
prints
 Madonna at the Moat
Pieter Bruegel
 Used vibrant colors
 Painted scenes of
peasant life
 The Peasant Dance
Thomas More (1478-1535)
 Wrote Utopia
 Utopian= ideal society
Excerpts from Utopia
 As long as there is property, and while money is
the standard of all things, I cannot think that a
nation can be governed either justly or happily; not
justly, because the best things will fall to the share
of the worst men; nor happily, because all things
will be divided among a few (and even those are not
in all respects happy), the rest being left to the
absolutely miserable.
 The only design of the Utopian in war is to obtain
that by force, which if it had been granted them in
time would have prevented the war.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
 1590-1613 he wrote 37
plays
 1,700+ words
appeared for the first
time in his works, ie.
Bedroom, lonely,
generous, gloomy,
heartsick, hurry, and
sneak
 To be or not to be, that
is the question
 What’s in a name? That
which we call a rose by
any other word would
smell as sweet.
 Love looks not with the
eyes but with the mind.
 To thine own self be
true.
Johann Gutenberg (1398-1468)
 1456 Johann printed a
complete edition of the
Bible
 Printed books now
cheaper and easier to
buy
 More books= more
people reading
 Gave Europeans new
ideas
“Renaissance Man”
 Ideal Individual= tried to master all areas of
study
 Young men= charming, witty, well educated
in classics; can dance, sing, play music, and
write poetry
 Women= should know the classics and be
charming