The Renaissance

Agenda

• Bell Ringer: What is the impact of the Black Death on Europe?

• Lecture, The Renaissance• Image Analysis, famous Renaissance Painters• Machiavelli Analysis• Was the Renaissance relevant? Video • Impact of Technology Discussion

• HW: Begin next set of focus questions. Read the sections on the Renaissance in Chapter 13, All of Chapter 15.

Renaissance• A “rebirth” of art and learning.• Black Death ruins economic

growth.• Medici family controls Florence

through wealth.– Part of the merchant class.

• Renaissance focuses on learning Greek and Roman traditions. (Powerful Empires)

• Focuses on human potential and achievement.

• Focuses on Greco-Roman values instead of Christian teachings.

• “Humanities”

Humanism• Focuses on human

potential and achievement.• Focuses on Greco-Roman

values instead of Christian teachings.

• “Humanities” • Petrarch

– Created a library of Roman and Greek Manuscripts.

– He aided in getting Greek and Roman names out to the public.

Machiavelli and the Renaissance

• Wrote “The Prince” in 1513.

• The handbook on how to control a country.

• Two perspectives, – a way to give rulers an

upper hand. – A way to provide

peasants with a guide to ruling families.

Northern Renaissance Writings

• Erasmus is known for creating a New Testament and placing it in the vernacular. – The Praise of Folly

• Sir Thomas More– Wrote Utopia– An ideal society where men

and women live in harmony.

• Shakespeare– Begins writing in the 1580s,

also wrote in vernacular.

Gutenberg and the Printing Press

• 1456, Gutenberg invents the printing press.

• Created the complete edition of the bible, and it went on to sell 20 million copies.

• Many learn to read.

• Expanded intellectualism.

Artists of the Renaissance

• Michelangelo– Statue of David

(Stone)– Painting the Ceiling of

the Sistine Chapel

Artists of the Renaissance

• Leonardo Da Vinci– Born 1452, a genius. – Paintings were realistic, a

departure from Medieval works.

– Mona Lisa, The Last Supper

Artists of the Renaissance

• Donatello– Credited with “David” (but a

bronze one completed 40 years before Michelangelo’s.

Artists of the Renaissance

• Raphael– Paintings represented an

“ideal beauty”, Madonnas– School of Athens