Thursday Warm Up

• 1. The Torah is the holy book of which religion?

• 2. What countries border France? • 3. What empire was located in India in 1500?• 4. Which religions began in India? • 5. What is the major difference between

Judaism & Christianity?

Renaissance• Begins in Italy in 1350• Intellectual and artistic movement that marks

the beginning of the modern world.

Leonardo da Vinci ‘Vitruvian Man’

The Renaissance • “Rebirth” of classical knowledge.

Humanism

• Idea that human beings are capable of excellence through their OWN work.

– Caused conflict with the church

Secularism

• Things that are “of the world” – Living in this

world without regard to the next world • YOLO

Artists • Painters, Sculptors…& ninja turtles

Ninja Turtles or Renaissance Artists?

• Leonardo (1425-1519)

• Raphael (1483-1520)

• Michelangelo (1475-1564)

• Donatello (1386-1466)

Raphael

• “The School of Athens”

Michelangelo • Statue of David • Ceiling of Sistine Chapel

Donatello

• Statue of David

Leonardo da Vinci

• Mona Lisa• The Last Supper

Shakespeare • Writer of plays, sonnets &

essays

Erasmus-author, humanist

• Author of In Praise of Folly – Satire-meant to be funny but

purpose is social criticism

Lady with an Ermine

Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife

The Girl With the Pearl Earring

Pieta

The Birth of Venus

Tognina Gonzales

House of Medici

• Rulers in Italy & patrons of the arts,

• Credited with funding the Renaissance

Politics

• Humanists believed rulers should be virtuous

• A virtuous ruler would be loved and obeyed

Exit Slip

• 1. What is one difference between medieval art & Renaissance art?

• 2. Who created the statue of David?• 3. Who painted the Mona Lisa?• 4. What type of ruler does Machiavelli believe

a king should be? • 5. What is humanism? • 6. Where did the Renaissance begin?