What is the Renaissance?

Understanding the important changes in Europe

Characteristics of the Renaissance

1350-1600 ADInterest in the CLASSICS (Greece and Rome)Desire for ORDERSpirit of ADVENTUREHUMANISM: used Greek/Roman ideals to understand their lives! Focused on HERE AND NOW.Francesco Petrarch: early Renaissance humanist, poet, and scholar

Begins in ITALY

Why? Wealthy trading nation-states like Florence, Rome, and Venice had money to invest in painters, sculptors, and new buildingsInfluence of Muslim World’s writingsMedici family in Florence

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How did ART reflect the spirit of the Renaissance?

Showed GREEK/ROMAN idealsOften had religious themesUse of perspective/realism, shading, oilArchitecture: influence of Greece/Rome (domes/columns), arches

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Major Artists

MichelangeloDavid, La Pieta, painted ceiling of Sistine ChapelDesigned dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome

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Part of the Ceiling of the Sistine ChapelThis took him four years to create!

Raphael

Blended Christian and classical stylesPainted “School of Athens”

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Northern Renaissance

Johann Gutenberg and Printing Press: effects?Jan Van Eyck and Pieter Bruegel: common people, used oil paintings for realism

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Writers

Erasmus: “In Praise of Folly,” humor and sarcasmSir Thomas More: utopian societiesRabelais: used characters to give opinions on religionDISTRUST OF ORGANIZED RELIGION

William Shakespeare

SonnetsTragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet)Timeless works: still used today!The Globe Theater

Influence of Shakespeare TODAY?

10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew): Julia StilesO (Othello): Mekhi Pfifer, Josh Hartnett, Julia StilesRomeo and Juliet : Leonardo Decaprio, Claire Danes

Attachments

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