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The Renaissance
1300s-1600s
A rebirth of classic Greek & Roman learning
which produced new attitudes towards
culture and learning. It had a new emphasis
on individual achievement where men
explored the richness & variety of human
experience in the here and now.
(Watch Video on the Renaissance)
Citation (MLA)
All About the Renaissance, Part One: Historical
Background, Beginnings, and Art. United Learning.
2004. unitedstreaming. 5 April 2006
<http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>
Italian
City-states
Florence
Genoa
Milan
Naples
Papal States
Sicily
Venice
Central Mediterranean location
Why Italy?
Merchant trade
Pax Romana ruins
Humanism
Intellectual movement of the Renaissance
 Focused on worldly, secular, subjects rather
than on the religious issues that had
occupied medieval thinkers
 Studia Humanitas (study of the humanities):
grammar, rhetoric, poetry and history based
on Greek & Roman texts
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How would this shift in thinking affect the
people of the Renaissance?
City-states: Florence
Renaissance
Architecture (Florence):
Filippo Brunelleschi’s
Dome
Renaissance Architecture (Florence):
The Palazzo Medici courtyard
The Medicis of Florence
Prominent banking business (& textiles)
 Cosimo de Medici gained control of
Florence in 1434
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– Graduated income tax (wealthier citizens paid
more)
– Used the tax revenue to improve the city
(sewers & paved streets)
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Lorenzo de Medici “The Magnificent”
1469-1492
– Patron (supporter) of artists, philosophers,
writers & public festivals
Another patron of the arts:
Pope Julius II, Renaissance prince
Renaissance Architecture (Venice):
Central dome of St. Mark's Basilica
Renaissance Architecture (Papal):
Transept & part of St. Peter’s dome
Which
Renaissance
artist was the
greatest?
Donatello
(1386 -1466)
The Feast of Herod
St. John
the Evangelist
David
The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence
Botticelli (1445-1510)
La Primavera
Madonna of the Book
Madonna of the
Magnificat
The Birth of Venus
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
The Last Supper
Self Portrait
Helicopter
Mona Lisa
Testa di Fanciulla
Womb
Vitruvian Man
Michelangelo
(1475-1564)
Pieta
David
Moses
Sistine Chapel
Raphael
(1483-1520)
Cowper Virgin
Cherubini
The School of Athens
Renaissance Literature
Desiderius Erasmus The Praise of Folly
(1509)
 Nicollò Machiavelli The Prince (1513)
 Sir Thomas Moore Utopia (1518)
 Baldassare Castiglione The Book of the
Courtier (1528)
 William Shakespeare – 37 plays: Romeo
& Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, etc. (1590-1613)
 Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote (1605)
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Nicollò Machiavelli’s
The Prince
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Wrote The Prince in 1513
“How to” book
Dedicated it to Lorenzo Di
Piero De' Medici (grandson of
Lorenzo the Magnificent)
“It is better to be feared than
loved”
“The ends justify the means”
Nicollò Machiavelli
Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici