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Chapter 12 Section 2. The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance. Objectives:. Explain Italian Renaissance Humanism Compare and Contrast Greek Education to Renaissance Education Evaluate different Vernacular literature of the Renaissance
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Chapter 12Section 2 The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance
Objectives: • Explain Italian Renaissance Humanism • Compare and Contrast Greek Education to Renaissance Education • Evaluate different Vernacular literature of the Renaissance • Analyze changes in painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
Humanism • Humanism was based on the study of the classics, the literary works of the Greeks and Romans. • Humanists studied the humanities- rhetoric, grammar, poetry, philosophy and history. • Petrarch is referred to as the father of humanism and put an emphasis on classical Latin. • Focus on solitude, which shifted in Florence to a more civic life.
Vernacular Literature • Prominent writers- • Dante: an Italian, wrote Divine Comedy • Chaucer: English author, The Canterbury Tales • Story of 29 Pilgrims journey to the tomb of Thomas a Becket. • Christine de Pizan, a Frenchwoman known for her works in defense of women.
Education in the Renaissance • Humanists believed that education can change human beings. • Humanist educators stressed liberal arts curriculum and physical education. • Aim of education was not to create great scholars, but complete citizens. • Women were mostly absent from schools, but when attending they studied mostly religion and morals.
New Techniques in Painting • A fresco is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster. • Masaccio’s frescos in Florence are considered the finest masterpieces of the early Renaissance (1400-1490) Focuses on perspective, making them look 3-D. • Two changes were stressed- the technical and investigation of movement and anatomy. • Sought Realism.
Closure: • What did you learn today?
Objectives: • List the Masters of the High Renaissance • Evaluate the differences between the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Artistic Renaissance
Sculpture and Architecture • Donatello spent time studying in Rome and copying the statues of the Greeks and Romans. • Filippo Brunelleschi was hired by the Medici family and designed the church of San Lorenzo. • Classical columns, rounded arches, intended to not overwhelm
Masters of the High Renaissance1490-1520 • Associated with three artistic giants: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. • Leonardo- mastered realistic paintings, dissected bodies. • Raphael- madonnas, frescos in the Vatican palace. • Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel, painter, sculptor, architect.
Northern Artistic Renaissance • Northern artist of present day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (low countries) focused on creating images for books and wooden altarpiece panels. • Most important school of the low countries was found in Flanders. Jan van Eyck oil painting skills were learned there. • Albrecht Dϋrer, German artist influences by Italians.
Assessment • In Class Page 387 1,2, 4-6 • Quiz Tuesday
Leonardo da Vinci • Page 388