Transcript The European Renaissance 19 Jan. 2011

Vocabulary
 humanism
 perspective
 Bell
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Work: Vocabulary
Johann Gutenberg
William Shakespeare
Vocabulary
 secular
 vernacular
Vocabulary
 Brunelleschi
 Leonardo
da Vinci
 Vocabulary
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Pieter Bruegel
Holbein the Younger
 Bell
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Work: copy this list into your notes
& fill in the blanks
Changes in Art during the Renaissance
 influenced by ancient ______ & Rome
 more realistic/life-like portrayals
 use of technique called “p__________”
 emphasized h______ism.
 more emphasis on s______ism
 writings in the v_________
 in praise of individuals
 Birthplace:
Italy
 City-states
competing
 Strong merchant class
 Medici family
 Return
to Classical values
 Humanism—emphasized
human potential
 Secularism—worldly pursuits
 Flourishing
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of the Arts
Perspective—3 dimensions on flat surface
Realism
 Michelangelo
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Painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel
 Donatello
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Statue of David
 Leonardo
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Mona Lisa
 Raphael
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School of Athens
 Artemisia
 Trained
Gentileschi
by father
 Portrayed strong,
heroic women
 Italian
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Renaissance
Authors wrote in the vernacular
 Machiavelli
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The Prince
 Northern
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Political unrest in Italy
People and ideas spread north
 German
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painters
Drurer
Holbein the Younger
 Flemish
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Renaissance
painters
Jan van Eyck
Pieter Bruegel
 Northern
Writers
 critical of Church; wanted reform
 Erasmus
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In Praise of Folly
 Machiavelli
 The
Prince
 Thomas
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More
Utopia
 Christine
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de Pizan
The Book of the City of Ladies
 Elizabethan
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England, 1558-1603 CE
 William
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Shakespeare
born Stratford-Upon-Avon, 1564
“most prominent playwright of all time”
 Johann
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Age
Gutenberg’s printing press
Germany, 1440
first book published:
 the Gutenberg Bible, 1455
 hundreds of copies at a time
 inexpensive
 Changes
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in Society
printing provided more information
new discoveries & maps published
promoted literacy & reading
social mores questioned
attempts to reform
corruption/injustices/immoral behavior