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