Transcript THE INTELLECTUAL AND ARTISTIC RENAISSANCE

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Italian Renaissance Humanism
 Characterized
by secularism and individualism
 Noticeable in intellect and art
 Humanism: study of grammar, rhetoric, poetry,
philosophy, and history
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Italian Renaissance Humanism
 Petrarch
 Father
of Italian Renaissance humanism
 Emphasized using pure classical Latin
 Intellectual life was one of solitude
 Rejected family and community
 1400’s humanist believed in performing civic duties
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Vernacular Literature
Scholars, lawyers, theologians wrote in the vernacularlanguage of their region
 Italian authors who wrote in the vernacular
 Dante
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 Divine
Comedy-story of soul’s journey to salvation. Long poem
divided into three parts: Hell, Purgatory, Heaven
 --There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy
time In misery—Dante, Divine Comedy
 --Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but
to follow virtue and knowledge—Dante, Divine Comedy
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Vernacular Literature
 Geoffrey
 The
Chaucer
Canterbury Tales
 Story of 29 Pilgrims journey to tomb of St. Thomas a
'Becket at Canterbury
 Portrayed English society from high to low class
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Vernacular Literature
 Christine
de Pizan
 Frenchwoman
 Wrote
in defense of women
 The Book of the City of Ladies
 Denounced male writers who said that women were
unable to learn and were easily swayed
 Argued that women could learn as well as men
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Education in the Renaissance
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Renaissance humanist believed education could change
human beings-produce people of virtue (moral excellence,
goodness, righteous) and wisdom, model citizens
 Stressed
physical education
 Javelin
throwing, archery, dancing, running, wrestling,
hunting, and swimming
 Liberal
studies core of humanist schools
 History,
moral philosophy, rhetoric(study of effective use
of language), grammar and logic (reasoning), poetry,
mathematics, astronomy, and music.
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Education in the Renaissance
 Females absent from schools
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 Few
who did studied history, riding, dance, singing,
playing the lute, and poetry
 Learned religion and morals to be good wives and
mothers
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The Artistic Renaissance in Italy
 Imitated
nature in their works
 Onlookers should see reality
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New Techniques in Painting
 Fresco’s
by Masaccio—first masterpieces of early
Renaissance
 Mastered
laws of perspective, created illusions of three
dimensional art.
 Medieval art was flat, Renaissance came to life
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New Techniques in Painting
 Two
 1.
major developments of Renaissance Art
used perspective, organization of outdoor space and
light through geometry
 2. investigation of movement and human anatomy,
especially the human nude.
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Sculpture and Architecture
 Donatello-studied
in Rome
 Studied statues of Greeks and Romans
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 Filippo Brunelleschi
 Architect inspired by buildings of classical
Rome.
 Designed the church of San Lorenzo for the
Medici family of Florence
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Masters of the High Renaissance
 Final
stage of Italian Renaissance painting called
the High Renaissance
 Produced three artistic giants—Leonardo da Vinci,
Raphael, and Michelangelo
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 Leonardo da Vinci
 Mastered the art of realistic painting, dissected
human bodies(to see how nature worked)
 Which
is da Vinci most famous
painting?
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THAT’S
RIGHT!!!
MONA LISA!!!!
 See her SMILE
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 Raphael
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Regarded as Italy’s best painter at age 25
Famous for paintings of Madonnas and
School of Athens
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Michelangelo
A
painter, sculptor, and architect
 Famous for paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine
Chapel in Rome
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Statue of David by Michelangelo