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RENAISSANCE
1300-1600
“Rebirth”
CAUSES LEADING TO THE
RENAISSANCE
Religious chaos
Crusades
Constantinople
Urban cities…ex. Genoa & Venice
Merchants
Patrons…Medici family
HUMANISM
“the study of mankind..in all the
potential strength and beauty of his
body, in all the joy and pain of his
senses and feelings, in all the frail
majesty of his reason; and in these
as most abundantly and perfectly
revealed in the literature and art of
ancient Greece and Rome.”
HUMANITIES
Reason of study
History, Literature, and
Philosophy
Spread through academies
rather than universities
CELEBRATION OF THE
INDIVIDUAL
Middle Ages people worked for…
Renaissance people worked for …
Wanted to be known…FAME!
Portrait painting and autobiographies
Worldly pleasures
UNIVERSAL MAN AND
WOMAN
The Courtier by Baldassare
Castiglione
Have your list of ideal
traits out on your desk
MAN
Greek and Latin classics,
charming, polite, witty, dance,
write poetry, sing, play music,
skilled rider, wrestler,
swordsman, moderate height
(interferes with athletics)…
Ex. Leonardo
WOMAN
WOMAN…Educated in classics,
paint, write, make music, dance,
charming, DID NOT SEE FAME,
inspire poetry but rarely create it,
they were more educated but had
less political, economic, and social
influence than medieval women…
Ex. Isabella d’Este
4 NEW TECHNIQUES
IN ART
1) PERSPECTIVE
Massacio
“Father of
Modern Painting”
3-D drawing, depth, parallel lines join
in the distance, upper stories slant
downward in the background, people
are larger in front
2) FRESCO
Bondone
Paint on wet plaster
Showed emotions
Interaction of people
Gave rounded
bodies and faces
3) Sculpture
Donatello
Free-standing figures in
the nude with their backsides
Bronze “David” (not
Michelangelo’s “David”)
4) PAINTING
Jan Van Eyck
Perspective using color
Oil-based paints
Intense foreground colors with hazy
background colors
Extreme detail even in “Wedding
Portrait” mirror
LITERATURE
Vernacular language
Worldly, native language
No longer the product of scholars or
clergy
Petrarch…”Father of Humanism”
Wrote sonnets (14 lined poems)
Believed in self-fulfillment rather
than spiritual fulfillment
Philosophy/Politics
Machiavelli
Wrote The Prince
Ruler should be strong
as a lion and shrewd as a fox
Most people are…
Trick people b/c…
Not morally right but politically effective
“The ___ justifies the ___”
SPREAD OF THE RENAISSANCE
1) Northern Renaissance
Erasmus…In Praise of Folly
Thomas More…Utopia
2) Elizabethan Age
Famous Playwright?
3) Printing Press
Johann Gutenberg in 1455
How did this change society?
SPREAD Cont.
4) Exploration
5) Reformation
6) Scientific developments
Newton
Kepler
Copernicus
Galileo
7) Other developments
Chimneys, kitchen stoves, firearms, heels,
pockets, 60 minute clock, eyeglasses,
wallpaper, watch, microscope
Never a true end to the
Renaissance