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Bell Ringer
Explain how the Inca Empire was complex (using specific examples.)
The RenaissanceEssential Question: How was the
Renaissance a rebirth of Classical culture and how was it a departure from it?
Renaissance – French for “rebirth”
*Rebirth of what?
Renaissance – French for “rebirth”
*Rebirth of what?
Greek and Roman Culture
Renaissance begins in Italy
*Why?
Center of Roman Empire
Wealthy trade centers
-patrons – financial supporters (Medici Family)
Humanism – study of classical culture, focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues.
*focused on Humanities – grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, based on Greek and Roman texts
Perspective – technique used to make paintings look 3-D*closer objects larger than further objects
Architecture – back to Greco-Roman domes and arches
Leonardo da Vinci-Ideal Renaissance Man (painting, botany, optics, music, architecture, and engineering)
-Best known for: Mona Lisa & Last Supper
Michelangelo Buonaroti(sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet)
Best known for: statue of David, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
*Raphael?
*Donatello?
Niccolo Machiavelli – wrote The Prince-guide to gain and maintain power-end justifies the means
Renaissance Writers
William Shakespeare – created 37 plays *1700 words appeared for the first time in his works (bedroom, lonely, generous, gloomy, heartsick, hurry, and sneak)
Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote – mocks medieval chivalry
Johannes Gutenberg -builds Printing Press *what book is printed first?-explosion of knowledge-books now can be printed in vernacular – everyday language of ordinary people
Essential Question
How was the Renaissance a rebirth of Classical culture and how was it a departure from it?