Transcript WHPP Unit 3 Section 1The Renaissance and Reformation

The Renaissance and
Reformation(1300–
1650)
Unit 3 Section 1
TYWL: Explain how interest in classical learning and religious reform
contributed to increased global interaction. Explain the political, social
and economic reasons for the rise of powerful centralized nation-states
and empires.
I can: understand how an increase in the quest for knowledge lead to
global interactions and how these intellectual and religious movements
lead to reforms. How political, economic, and social discontent can lead
to change.
Question of the Day 13
What was one direct result of the Crusades?
1) Trade increased between Europe and the Middle East.
2) Islamic kingdoms expanded into Europe.
3) Arabs and Christians divided the city of Jerusalem
between them.
4) Alexander the Great became a powerful leader in
Eurasia.
Why Did the Renaissance
Begin in Italy?
• Grown into prosperous centers of trade &
manufacturing.
• Wealthy merchant class Lorenzo de Medici “the
Magnificent” Generous patron, financial
supporter.
What Was the Renaissance? (Rebirth)
• Emphasized individual achievement.
• The Renaissance ideal was the person with
talent in many fields.
Humanism
– Intellectual movement
– study of classical culture & focused on
worldly subjects
PAINTERS
– Perspective made
distant objects
smaller than those
close to the front.
– Studied human
anatomy
WRITERS
– Self-help
– Niccolo Machiavelli The
Prince “Is it better to be
feared or loved?”
– “Machiavellian” deceit in
politics. (whatever means
necessary to achieve their
goals.)
Three Geniuses of Renaissance Art
Leonardo da
Vinici
– Dissected
corpses
– Mona Lisa and
The Last
Supper
– flying
machines and
undersea
boats
Michelangelo
– sculptor, engineer,
painter, architect,
& poet
– Sculpted the Pieta
& statue of David
– Painted Sistine
Chapel in Rome
Raphael
– Best known for
paintings of the
Madonna,
Renaissance Moves
North
Essential Standards: Explain how interest in classical learning and
religious reform contributed to increased global interaction. Explain
the political, social and economic reasons for the rise of powerful
centralized nation-states and empires.
I can: understand how an increase in the quest for knowledge lead to
global interactions and how these intellectual and religious movements
lead to reforms. How political, economic, and social discontent can lead
to change.
Artists of the Northern Renaissance
• The Northern Renaissance began in Flanders
Albrecht Durer
Specialized in engravings He is called the
“German Leonardo.”
Peter Paul Reubens (Flemish)
blended the realistic traditions w/ the
classical themes
Northern Humanists
• stressed education & classical
learning.
• religious & moral reforms.
Two humanists:
– Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch priest, the
bible to be translated from Latin into the
vernacular, or language of ordinary
people.
– Thomas More wrote of a utopian society
(ideal society)
The Printing Revolution
• printing revolution :
– In 1456, Johann Gutenberg printed the Bible using
the first printing press
• IMPACT:
– books: cheaper & easier to produce.
– access to a broad range of knowledge and ideas.
Writers of the Northern
Renaissance
RABELAIS
SHAKESPEARE CERVANTES:
:
• French
humanist who
was a monk,
physician,
Greek scholar,
and author.
English poet
who was the
towering
figure of
Renaissance
lit. Wrote 37
plays that are
still
performed
around the
world.
Spanish
author who
wrote Don
Quixote,
which mocks
romantic
notions about
medieval
chivalry.