the renaissance in italy 1300-1500
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The Renaissance in Italy 1300-1500
Features of the ITALIAN Renaissance
What does the word mean? New Secular and scientific values combine
with a spirit of adventure and curiosity (a desire to comprehend the world in which they live) Still Christian in attitude but transition from:
Medieval to modern world religious to lay authority Agricultural to urban Focus on HUMAN experience in the here and now
Why Italy History and
geography The Papacy Trade
Wealth of city statesCreated Patrons to support the arts
Ex: Florence: The Medici’s
Ideas from the East
Humanism Intellectual movement which celebrated
the dignity of mankind. The study of Latin and Greek classics and of Church fathers for their own sake, not to come to a closer understanding of God Still pious Christians
Education to stimulate creativity Rhetoric, Poetry, History Francesco Petrarch: Father of Italian
humanism Letters to the Ancient Dead
A new secular spirit Material instead of eternal world
Pope Julius II tore down the old St. Peters basilica (Michelangelo the dome) (next slide)
Machiavelli The Prince: No need to be guided by a pre-determined code of behavior Safer to be feared than loved “Ruthless political expediency” (ends
justify means)
St. Peters Dome
New Techniques and skills Painting
Oil paints Chiaroscuro (light and shade) Linear perspective Frescoes Realism / Detail /Human Anatomy
Architecture: Return to Classical style Columns, Domes and Arches Filippo Brunelleschi
Important Renaissance Artists Michelangelo : Pieta, David, Sistine
Chapel Leonardo DaVinci: Mona Lisa, inventor,
dissection of corpses Raphael: Madonna's, School of Athens Botticelli: The Birth of Venus, Adoration of
the Magi Brunelleschi: The Cathedral of Florence,
Linear perspective
Brunelleschi’s Dome in Florence
The Vocation of Peter and Andrew (Duccio)
The Birth of VenusBotticelli
Mona Lisa and anatomy sketchesLeonardo DaVinci
The Pieta and Moses at the tomb of Pope Julius II
Michaelangelo, The David
Creation (Mike, Sistene Chapel)
Last Judgment
The School of Athens (Raphael)
The Renaissance in the NorthAlbrecht Durer Self PortraitChapter 13 section 2
The Northern Renaissance Centered in Flanders
Differences: Deeply concerned with religion Religious upheaval Called for a return to an earlier simple Christian
faith emphasis on the common people Northern Artists specialize in: landscapes,
detailed portraits, images of every day life (commoners) Smaller more transportable ($ motive) Not as much classical influence or fascination
with form
The Printing Revolution Johannes Guttenberg 1455
Impact?
Jan Van Eyck (Arnolfini)
Pieter Bruegel
Albrecht Durer: Michelangelo of the North (painter, engravings)
Norhtern Humanists Desiderius Erasmus from
Holland-The Praise of Folly-Critical of the Church
and Clergy of the period“Father” of the Northern
humanist movement
Shakespeare
Human ordeal examined Classical influence “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in
reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world; the paragon of animals.” Hamlet
Sir Thomas More Utopia (“No place”) social commentary IMPROVE SOCIETY
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