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Renaissance

Renaissance. Means REBIRTH Rebirth of art and learning Began in northern Italy. 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.

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Renaissance

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  1. Renaissance • Means REBIRTH • Rebirth of art and learning • Began in northern Italy

  2. Economic Foundations • Increased demand for MiddleEastern 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

  3. Italy • Italian city-states became rich from trade: • Florence • Venice • Genoa • They were trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe. • Independent city-states governed as republics by wealthy merchants.

  4. Niccolo Machiavelli • Wrote The Prince • guidelines for the how to get power by absolute rule. • Believed the ends justified the means • One should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary.

  5. Art and Literature • Medieval art and literature focused on the Church and salvation. • Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldlymatters, along with Christianity.

  6. Artists and Writers • Artists • Leonardo da Vinci • Michelangelo • Writers • Petrarch

  7. Leonardo da Vinci • Painted the MonaLisa and The Last Supper • Handsome, athletic, singer, artist, scientist, inventor

  8. Notebooks

  9. Michelangelo • Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David • Sculptor, painter, architect, poet

  10. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

  11. Creation of Adam Creation of Eve The Last Judgment Separation of Light and Darkness

  12. Pieta David

  13. Moses 1513-1515

  14. RaphaelPainter1483-1520

  15. The School of Athens

  16. Pythagoras Plato and Aristotle Socrates

  17. Raphael (back) Euclid Zoroaster & Ptolemy

  18. Petrarch • Wrote Sonnets • He wrote with a Humanistic approach • Considered the “Father of Humanism”

  19. Humanism • 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

  20. 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.

  21. Northern Renaissance Writers • Erasmus—The Praise of Folly (1511) • Critical of corrupt church practices • Catalyst for Protestant Reformation

  22. Northern Renaissance Writers • Sir Thomas More—Utopia (1516) • Depicts world with perfect social, legal and political system • Leading humanist scholar

  23. The Printing Press • Major invention of the Renaissance • Printing press created by Johannes Gutenberg • Was the first way to print large amounts of text at once, instead of by hand or by blocks • 1st book printed was the “Gutenberg Bible” • Influence of the printing press was… • Made books faster and more accessible to people • Made books much cheaper than before • Increased the literacy rate of people in Europe • Allowed more people the ability to be educated

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