Transcript Italian Renaissance

Italian
Renaissance
Renaissance
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“rebirth”
cultural awakening in Europe
started in Italy
about 1350 – 1600
Causes
• more trade between Europe
and Islamic Empire
• preservation of Greco-Roman
knowledge by Byzantines and
Muslims
• more trade = more money
Why Italy?
• center of trade routes
• attachment to classical
(Roman) traditions
• prosperous city-states
• Florence, Venice, Rome
New Ideas
• individualism – emphasis on
person as individual rather
than part of a group
• secularism – focus on worldly
themes instead of religious
Key People
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Niccolo Machiavelli
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Petrarch
Patrons
• Wealthy people who
sponsored art
• Showed high social status
Niccolo Machiavelli
• wrote The Prince – handbook
for princes on ruling
• supported absolute power
• end justifies the means
• try to do good, evil if needed
Leonardo da Vinci
• artist, scientist, inventor
• painted Mona Lisa and The
Last Supper
• “Renaissance man”
Mona Lisa
Why is this
painting so
famous?
The Last Supper
vertical
The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498
horizontal
Perspective!
Michelangelo
• artist – painter and sculptor
• painted ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel
• sculpted David
Sistine Chapel
Sistine
Chapel
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1508-1512
Fresco
Last Judgment
back wall
1536-1541
The Sistine Chapel Details
The Last Judgment
David
Petrarch
• poet and scholar
• love sonnets inspired poetry
in Romeo and Juliet
• humanist writings
The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Raphael
Painter
1483-1520