Do Now:

"Imagine that you have lived in Florence,

Italy immediately following the Black

Death. You have survived, but many

around you have not. Describe your

environment. How do you feel?"

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Learning Targets and

Intentions of the Lesson1. KNOW the economic and political causes

for the rise of the Italian city-state of Florence,

Milan, Naples, Rome and Venice. 2.

UNDERSTAND and recognize major influences

of the Renaissance on the architectural,

artistic, and literary developments of Europe.

3. Identify the artistic contributions of

selected Renaissance artists (SKILL).

Renaissance

• Means

REBIRTH

• Rebirth of art

and learning

• Began in

northern Italy

“Italian Renaissance”

Objectives

1.) During the middle ages

• Find God

• Prove pre-conceived ideas

2.) During the Renaissance

• Find man

• Promote learning

• Man loves himself again

Contrast to grimness of the Middle Ages

Wars Plagues

Spend life

preparing for

the afterlife

Decreased

power of the

church

A Visual Metaphor of the Renaissance

What was the Renaissance?

• Period following the middle ages

• “Rebirth” of classical Greece and Rome

• 1st period to name itself and say bad things about earlier times (Dark Ages)

• NAMES FOR ARTISTS

• Began in Italy

• Moved to northern Europe

Economic Foundations• Increased demand for

Middle Eastern products

• Encouraged the use of

credit and banking

• Letters of credit expanded

supply of money and sped

up trade.

• New accounting and

bookkeeping practices

used Arabic numerals

Major Italian Cities.

Many independent city-states emerged in northern and central Italy that played an important role in Italian politics and art.

Milan Venice

Florence

Milan

One of the richest cities, it controls trade through the Alps.

Venice

Sitting on the Adriatic, it attracts trade from all over the world.

Florence

Controlled by the De Medici Family, who became great patrons of the arts (AKA Bored

Rich people)

Genoa

Genoa

Had Access to Trade Routes

Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with Middle Eastern markets

Competition with each other

• Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe

• Were initially independent city-states governed as republics

Beginning of the

Renaissance in

Europe

Growth of the

Trade and Commerce

Crusades connect with Muslims

Muslims

introduce

new ideas

Cities and Merchants grow

Influence of City States

Trade = Wealth

Rich Families Support Arts

The Growth of

Humanism

Greece and Rome Change ideas about government, religion, social class

Tried to improve on old

things “Humanities” in Education

Niccolo Machiavelli• Wrote The Prince

• guidelines for the how to get power by absolute rule.

• Believed the ends justified the means

• One should do goodif possible, but do evil when necessary.

Art and Literature• Medieval art and

literature focused on the Church and salvation.

• Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.

Artists and Writers

• Artists

•Leonardo da

Vinci

•Michelangelo

• Writers

•Petrarch

Leonardo da Vinci

• Painted the MonaLisa and The LastSupper

• Handsome, athletic, singer, artist, scientist, inventor

Michelangelo• Painted the

ceiling of the

Sistine Chapel

and sculpted

David

• Sculptor, painter,

architect, poet

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Pieta

David

Petrarch

• Wrote Sonnets

• He wrote with a Humanisticapproach

• Considered the “Father of Humanism”

Humanism - system of thought attaching prime importance to

human rather than divine or supernatural matters, and seek solely

rational ways of solving human problems.

• Celebrated the individual

• Stimulated the study of

Greek and Roman

literature and culture

• Humanists were supported

by PATRONS who were

very wealthy

The Vitruvian Man

Northern Renaissance• With the rise of trade,

travel and literacy, the

Italian Renaissance

spread to northern

Europe.

• The art and literature

changed as people of

different cultures

adopted Renaissance

ideas.

Northern Renaissance Writers• Erasmus—The

Praise of Folly (1511)

• Critical of corruptchurch practices

• Catalyst for Protestant Reformation

Northern Renaissance Writers• Sir Thomas More

—Utopia (1516)

• Depicts world with

perfect social, legal

and political

system

• Leading humanist

scholar