By: Natalie O’Neil, Brea Gordon, Jack Rosenfeld, Matt Harner, & Nick Lee
Architecture
Science & Technology
Music
Class System
Table Etiquette
Art
Fashion
Medicine
Run by wealthy merchants and bankers who wanted to show it off.
Harmony and geometric symmetry were desired. Rather than using Gothic architecture, they sought after Roman and Greek building styles.
For the first time, there were people specifically designing buildings instead of master masons which also worked on them.
Gothic Architecture
Greek Architecture
Wind and watermills and blast furnaces
Heavy plow increased productivity of crops and plants at that time.
GUN POWDER
1500 print shops had opened in western Europe. Only 11 books were being printed at the time which means the books had to be good and the authors had to pay.
Popular Instruments The Zink Similar to the recorder
Most Multipurpose of Renaissance Instrument Played for serious or
dance music
Bagpipes Mention in Bible
Celtic Migration Persia, India, Greece, Ro
me
Clergy (Religious), Nobility, Commoner
Status: Gender, Power, Lineage, Education, City of Birth
Do not spit across the table
Do not chew loudly like the French
Do not put legs on the table
Do not hiccup
Do not rub teeth with napkin or worse finger
Do not scratch yourself at the table
Do not offer your neighbor a pear or other fruit which you already bit
Do not look into handkerchief after blowing nose as if pearls or rubies are in it
Avoid spitting into fingers
Florentine
Was founded by Julius Caesar
The origins of the city date back some two thousand years to 500 B.C.
Rome, Greece and Gothic Art
Clothing
Rich did not want same clothes as poor
“Sacrifice everything for fashion”
More fit than loose
Women High collars
Men ruffs
Renaissance medical scholars relied on observations as well as ancient theories to explain how the body works. (Hippocrates and Galen)
Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary or Midwives
¼ of people died from? Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci
“25%” of Europe lived in a city
Italy even more
Venice
190,000 people in 1600
Myth of Venice
Religious Origin
“Perfect” government
Unity
Productive
Kind
Rough formula:
Tall buildings
Fortifications (Early Ren. Only)
Towers
Walls
High agriculture directly outside city
Farmers sometimes within city, commuted out