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What is the Renaissance?
Understanding the important changes in Europe
Characteristics of the Renaissance
1350-1600 ADInterest in the CLASSICS (Greece and Rome)Desire for ORDERSpirit of ADVENTUREHUMANISM: used Greek/Roman ideals to understand their lives! Focused on HERE AND NOW.Francesco Petrarch: early Renaissance humanist, poet, and scholar
Begins in ITALY
Why? Wealthy trading nation-states like Florence, Rome, and Venice had money to invest in painters, sculptors, and new buildingsInfluence of Muslim World’s writingsMedici family in Florence
The_Center_of_the_Renaissance__Italy.wmv
How did ART reflect the spirit of the Renaissance?
Showed GREEK/ROMAN idealsOften had religious themesUse of perspective/realism, shading, oilArchitecture: influence of Greece/Rome (domes/columns), arches
Renaissance_Humanism__Reason__and_Art.wmv
Major Artists
MichelangeloDavid, La Pieta, painted ceiling of Sistine ChapelDesigned dome of St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome
Michelangelo__Renaissance_Artist__The_Ceiling_of_the_Sistine_Chapel.asf
Part of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
This took him four years to create!
Raphael
Blended Christian and classical stylesPainted “School of Athens”
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Northern Renaissance
Johann Gutenberg and Printing Press: effects?Jan Van Eyck and Pieter Bruegel: common people, used oil paintings for realism
Gutenberg_s_Printing_Press_and_the_Spread_of_Ideas.wmv
Part_Three__Brueghel_s_Depictions_of_Peasant_Life.asf
Writers
Erasmus: “In Praise of Folly,” humor and sarcasmSir Thomas More: utopian societiesRabelais: used characters to give opinions on religionDISTRUST OF ORGANIZED RELIGION
William Shakespeare
SonnetsTragedies (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet)Timeless works: still used today!The Globe Theater
Influence of Shakespeare TODAY?
10 Things I Hate About You (The Taming of the Shrew): Julia StilesO (Othello): Mekhi Pfifer, Josh Hartnett, Julia StilesRomeo and Juliet : Leonardo Decaprio, Claire Danes
Attachments
The_Center_of_the_Renaissance__Italy.wmv
Renaissance_Humanism__Reason__and_Art.wmv
Michelangelo__Renaissance_Artist__The_Ceiling_of_the_Sistine_Chapel.asf
Part_Four__Raphael_.asf
Part_Three__Brueghel_s_Depictions_of_Peasant_Life.asf
Gutenberg_s_Printing_Press_and_the_Spread_of_Ideas.wmv