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Spread of the Renaissance
Italy- 1350
Spain
German States
France
England
1485
1400
1494
1492
Italy-1350
German States 1400
England-1485
Spain-1492
France- 1494
Italian Renaissance• It all began in Italy.
1. Petrarch started to rediscover the Classics of Ancient Rome centered in Italy.
2. City-states competed with one another for the best artists and universities.
3. Italian merchants were wealthy and could spend their extra cash on art.
Italian Renaissance
• Italy’s Renaissance has the most memorable art:– Michelangelo– Leonardo da
Vinci– Sandro Botticelli– Raphael da
Urbino– Donatello di
Niccolo
German Renaissance
• German painting is combination of Renaissance realism and German religious feeling and the need to impress the German nobles.
• The Reformation plays the most central role in the German states.
English Renaissance
• The best evidence of the Renaissance in England are the works of William Shakespeare.
• England was also strong in portrait painting and architecture.
Spanish Renaissance
• The Spanish Renaissance mostly showed up in scholarship and architecture.
• The Escorial Palace was built by Philip II in the late 1500’s showing the domes and various shapes used in ancient Italian architecture.
French Renaissance
• In France the Renaissance is most obvious in architecture and some of the paintings.
• The Chateau de Chambord was built during the French Renaissance, using columns, domes and varying shapes that were used in ancient times in Italy.