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The Renaissance began in Italy and
spread north to the rest of Europe
Rebirth in the learning and culture of
the Roman and Greek worlds
1. Italy was the center of the Roman Empire
2. Italian city-states grew into prosperous
centers of trade
Architecture, art, coins, ect.
Location/Milan Venice Genoa
3. Wealthy and powerful merchant class
attitudes and interests
Stressed
Education
Individual achievement
Money to support the arts
Florence became the city that symbolized the
Renaissance. Why?
Produced a great number of gifted poets, artists,
architects, scholars, and scientists
In the 1400’s the Medici family organized a
successful banking business became one of the
richest merchants in Europe
1. Cosimo De Medici gained control of the government
of Florence
2. Lorenzo De Medici (magnificent) great leader and
patron of the arts.
He brought poets, philosophers to Florence
Artists learned by sketching ancient Roman works.
Time of creativity and change in political,
social, economic , and cultural areas
Change in the way people viewed themselves
and the world around them
A. New World View
It produced new attitudes toward culture and
learning
1. thinkers explored the richness and variety of human
experience How does it differ from medieval thinkers?
2. New emphasis on individual achievement
Ideal person was one with talent in many fields
B. Spirit of Adventure and Curiosity
Led people to explore the world
Age of exploration/science
C. Humanism
The study of classical culture (Greece/Rome)
1.focused on worldly subjects not religious issues
2 hoped to use the knowledge of the Greeks and
Romans to understand their own time
3. education should stimulate the individual’s creative
powers
Humanities (grammer, rhetoric, poetry, history)
Roman art had been very realistic, and during the
Renaissance artists developed new techniques for
representing both humans and landscapes in a realistic way.
1. perspective
2. shading
3. studied the human anatomy
Women Artists
They had to overcome the limits on education and training
Some women had to pass their work off in their husbands name
Very few women artists gained acceptance
Sofonisba Anguissola court painter for the king of Spain
Architecture
Moved away from the gothic style and adopted the columns,
arches, and does of the Greeks and Romans
Dissected human corpses to learn how bones and
muscles worked
Paintings great realism
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Talents and accomplishments in many areas
Botany
Anatomy
Optics
Music
Architecture
Engineering
Sketches for a flying machine & undersea boat
Sculptor , engineer, painter, architect, and poet
Pieta
David
Sistine Chapel (mural biblical history)
Designed the dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral
Studied the works of Leonardo and
Michelangelo
Paintings blend Christian and classical styles
The School of Athens
Poets, artists, and scholars mixed with politicians; books
were written to show ambitious men how to rise to power in
the Renaissance world
Niccolo Machiavelli
He served as a diplomat and observed kings, studied ancient
Roman history
Prince (1513)
Combined his personal experience of politics with the knowledge of the
past as a guide to rulers on how to gain power and hold it.
He looked to real rules in an age of ruthless politics, not the ideal ruler.
He believed that the ends justifies the means
He urged rulers to use whatever methods necessary to achieve their
goals
Getting results was more important than honesty
He was against oppression and corruption
Machiavellian deceit in politics
Northern Europe did not enjoy the economic
growth that sparked the Renaissance in Italy
until after 1450
Slow recovery from the plague
Lacked the wealthy class to support the arts
Lacked the major trade centers
Northern Renaissance began in the cities of
Flanders, today northern France, Belgium, and
the Netherlands,
Johann Gutenberg
1456 printed the first edition of the Bible using the first
printing press in the west
Chinese had been using the printing press for centuries
and they had a method of making paper which would not
reach Europe until 1300
Within 20 years the development of the movable type
printing press made book production faster
How did the printing press transformed Europe
1. Books were cheaper and easier
2. By 1500 more than 20 million books had been printed
3. literacy rates increased
4. Greater access to a large range of knowledge
5. Exposed Europeans to new ideas
exploration
These scholars stressed
Education
Classical learning
They believed that the revival of ancient learning
should be used to bring about religious and moral
reform.
Erasmus
Dutch priest
Produced a new Greek edition of the New Testament
Called for the Bible to be written in the vernacular
He believed that the individual’s chief duties were to be openminded and of good will toward others
He was upset by the corruption in the church and called for
reform
The Praise of Folly
English humanist pressed for social reform
Utopia (book)
Describes an ideal society in which all are educated
and justice is used to end crime rather than to
eliminate the criminal.