Transcript The Renaissance

Agenda 9/2
Objective: Map important places for the world around 1500.
Explain the important people of the Renaissance.
1. Finish map/distribute textbooks
2. Renaissance Notes
3. Exit ticket
4. HW: Study for quiz on World around 1500 & Renaissance
The Renaissance
World History II
Chapter 1
Growth of Towns
• Starts in Italy? Why?
• Increased trade:
– Genoa
– Venice
– Florence
The Renaissance
• Period that lasts from 1350-1600
• Begins in city states of Italy
– Italy remained close to classics
– Center for trade, remained
wealthy
– Remained close to Byzantine(not
totally dark).
Humanism
New secular intellectual movement –
focus on Latin, Greek and humanities
- Private tutors for rich
Individualism and human improvement
were main ideas.
Important Author & Work
Machiavelli- The Prince
A rulers guidebook, discusses ways to hang on to power.
Lie, cheat, steal- anything to stay in power
Florence
• Center of trade- after Crusades a
flood of luxury goods are sent
here…. City grows wealthy.
• De Medici- a wealthy banking
family patron of the arts
Rome
• Center of Church, very
wealthy. Rebuilding of
ancient city.
• St. Peter’s Basilica
Architecture (Southern)
• Returned to ideals of Greece and Rome.
• Architects became as famous as artists.
• Brunelleshci- advanced dome technology…. Larger
domes -Studied Roman arches.
Leonardo Da Vinci
Michelangelo
Raphael
Donatello
The Northern Renaissance
• Ideas from Italy moved north to
France, the “low countries”
Germany, and England.
Johannes Gutenberg
• Printing Press 1455
• Helps in the spread of knowledge
– More books available
– Printing in vernacular
– More people have access to information, begin to question
large institutions
• Church- leads to reformation
• State- leads to civil war and eventual revolution
Eventually led to the 1st novel . . .
Don Quixote by
Miguel Cervantes (1605)
Northern Literature
• William Shakespeare- Playwright
• Erasmus- Religious Philosopher
“In Praise of Folly”
Northern vs. Southern
• Northern
–Southern
»Italy
»Secular
»Humanism
»Highly Advanced
art, arch,
sculpture
»Frescoes
– Northern Europe
– More Religious Tone
– Christian Humanism
– Art less advancedcloser to middle ages.
– Used oils for painting
Exit Ticket
Exit ticket:
1. Name two of the art masters and at least one
work for each.
2. Describe two differences between the northern
and southern renaissance.
3. Explain how the printing press changed
society.