Transcript Renaissance PowerPoint

The Renaissance
A Transformation of Europe
Why does the Renaissance begin in Italy?
Economic Concepts:
Letters of Credit = expand
money supply & expedite
trade
Economic Concepts:
New accounting &
bookkeeping practices
(use of Arabic Numerals)
What is the connection between the increased
wealth and emergence of the Renaissance in
Italy?
Florence, Venice &
Genoa
Had access to trade routes
connecting Europe with
Middle Eastern markets
What event/events (couple centuries before)
helped contribute to the advantageous
financial position of Florence, Venice, Genoa?
How?
Florence, Venice &
Genoa
Served as trade centers for
distribution of goods to
Northern Europe
Florence, Venice &
Genoa
Were initially independent
city-states governed as
republics
Johann Gutenberg
1440 – he creates movable type
Then invents the Printing Press
1455 – Gutenberg Bible = 1st full-sized
book printed
-Literacy & access to books increased
New artistic techniques
Erasmus
William Shakespeare
Christian humanist writer
Famous work = The Praise of Folly
Christianity of the heart not ceremony
English poet & playwright
Many famous poems,
comedies and tragedies.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Hamlet
Northern Renaissance
Merging artistic styles
Mergence of humanist ideas
and Christianity
Portrayed religious and
secular subjects
Realism
Depiction of subjects as they appear
in everyday life; not idealistic
Perspective
•Showing 3 dimensions
•Depth of field
The Medici Family
Italian Renaissance
vernacular
Writing in native language as
opposed to Latin
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci – 1452 - 1519
Painted ceiling of Sistine Chapel
Sculptor of David
“Renaissance Man”
Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer,
scientist, writer
Painted Mona Lisa & Last Supper
•Powerful family in Florence Italy
•Patrons of the arts
•Intent on creating centers of
commerce, education, & arts
Machiavelli - wrote The Prince
Supported absolute power of ruler
End justifies means
Do good if possible; evil if necessary
It better to be feared than loved
Humanism
Petrarch – 1304 - 1375
“Father of Humanism”
Wrote many Italian & Latin sonnets
•The focus on human potential and
achievements
•Humanists sought to understand
classical values
•Influenced artists to carry on classical
traditions
The Medici family were patrons of the arts. Their patronage
(support) of the arts helped start the Renaissance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
Author of The Prince
How to be an effective ruler:
“It is better to be feared than loved”
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo’s
sculpture of David
Perfected the art of
writing sonnets in
Latin and Italian.
Petrarch – “Father of Humanism”
Leonardo da Vinci – “Renaissance Man”
da Vinci’s Last Supper
da Vinci’s Mona Lisa
Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Gutenberg Printing Press
Medieval art = 2 dimensional, no depth of field
Renaissance Art – vivid color,
3 dimensions = perspective
Renaissance art- showing perspective (depth of field)
Raphael’s School of Athens
Raphael’s School of Athens
1: Zeno of Citium 2: Epicurus 3: (Federico II of Mantua?) 4: Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles?
5: Averroes 6: Pythagoras 7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? 8: Antisthenes or Xenophon? 9: Hypatia
(Francesco Maria della Rovere?) 10: Aeschines or Xenophon? 11: Parmenides? 12: Socrates 13: Heraclitus
(Michelangelo) 14: Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) 15: Aristotle 16: Diogenes 17: Plotinus (Donatello?) 18: Euclid
or Archimedes with students (Bramante)? 19: Zoroaster 20: Ptolemy? R: Apelles (Raphael) 21: Protogenes (Il
Sodoma, Perugino, or Timoteo Viti)[12]
Focal point of
Raphael’s School of
Athens
Plato and Aristotle