Transcript Renaissance PowerPoint

The Renaissance in
Europe
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: HOW CAN TRADE LEAD TO
ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND POLITICAL POWER? HOW CAN
IDEAS BE REFLECTED IN ART, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE?
TEKS and Objectives
We will…
I will…
(1D) identify causes and effects of
the Renaissance.

Compare and contrast
the Renaissance and the
Middle Ages
(24B) explain the relationship
among Christianity, individualism,
and growing secularism.

Analyze ideas in The
Prince
(26A) identify significant examples
of art and architecture from the
Renaissance.
Renaissance

Means “rebirth”

A renewed interest in learning about classical civilizations
of Greece and Rome
Decline of Feudalism
Crusades
Black
Death
Hundred Years’ War
Great Schism
Rise of Renaissance
 Growth
of Italian Cities
 Rome:
home to popes
 Genoa, Pisa, and Venice:
important trading ports
 Milan, Florence, and Siena:
wealthy from banking, farming,
and manufacturing
 Patrons:
wealthy merchants
who sponsored artists
Artistic Impact: Painting
and Sculpture
 Middle
 flat
Ages
and unrealistic
 Renaissance
 Realistic
 Perspective
and proportions
High Renaissance Masters
 Leonardo
da Vinci
“Renaissance Man” (artist, scientist, inventor)
Mastered art of realistic painting
Mona Lisa
 Raphael
Sanzio
Madonnas (paintings of Mary) and frescoes
School of Athens
 Michelangelo
Buonarroti
Painter, sculptor, architect
Sistine Chapel
Artistic Impact: Architecture
 Middle
Ages
 Pointed
arches and ornamentation
 Renaissance
 Columns
and circular arches of
classical civilizations
 Filippo
Brunelleschi
 Developed
 Florence
domed roof
Cathedra (largest church in
the world)
Intellectual Impact: Scholarship
and Literature

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
Petrarch

“Father of Humanism”

Humanism: the belief each person has dignity, worth,
and uniqueness
Erasmus

Questioned the Church

Secularism: belief observation and reason can be used
to explain the world
Use of Native Languages

Shakespeare, Cervantes
Intellectual Impact: Science

Middle Ages
 Geocentric
universe
 Supported

Theory: Earth is the center of the
by the Church
Renaissance
 Heliocentric
Theory (Copernicus): the Sun is
center of universe
 Galileo:
 Found
used telescope to prove theory
guilty of heresy by the Inquisition
Intellectual Impact: Technology

Middle Ages
 Books
printed by hand
 Block
printing was time consuming and
inefficient

Gutenberg Printing Press
 Movable
 Allowed
type with individual letters
for the mass production of books
 Encouraged
 Increased
the spread of new ideas
literacy
Political Impact
 Niccolo
Machiavelli
 Author
of The Prince
 Thesis:
power
How to get and keep
 Morality
unrelated to politics
 Humans motivated by greed
 Good when possible; evil when
necessary
 The ends justify the means
Journal Entry #16
Read the following document from The Prince. Then answer the question that follows.
WHETHER IT IS BETTER FOR THE PRINCE TO BE LOVED OR FEARED
“From this arises the question: whether it is better to be loved more than
feared, or feared more than loved. The answer is that one would like to be
both, but as it is difficult for fear and love to go together, it is better to be
feared. One can say about men: they are ungrateful, liars, and deceivers,
anxious to avoid danger, and greedy. As long as you are useful to them,
they are yours. They would shed their blood for you, risk their lives, their
children, so long as the danger is remote. But when you are in danger,
they turn against you. Any prince who has come to depend on promises
and takes no other precautions, ensures his own ruin…Men worry less
about doing an injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who
makes himself feared.”
Do you agree with Machiavelli’s advice in this passage? Give at
least two reasons to support your stance.
Renaissance or
Middle Ages?
TEKS and Objectives
We will…
I will…
(1D) identify causes and effects of
the Renaissance.

Compare and contrast
the Renaissance and the
Middle Ages
(24B) explain the relationship
among Christianity, individualism,
and growing secularism.

Analyze ideas in The
Prince
(26A) identify significant examples
of art and architecture from the
Renaissance.