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The Renaissance

The Renaissance. Today’s Goals. Describe the characteristics of the Renaissance. Understand the context of the Renaissance and why the Renaissance began in Italy. Identify Renaissance artists and explain how new ideas affected the arts of the period. Renaissance, A Rebirth.

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The Renaissance

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  1. The Renaissance

  2. Today’s Goals • Describe the characteristics of the Renaissance. • Understand the context of the Renaissance and why the Renaissance began in Italy. • Identify Renaissance artists and explain how new ideas affected the arts of the period.

  3. Renaissance, A Rebirth • Rebirth of antiquity or Greco-Roman civilizations • Recovery from the Black Death and all its consequences (and Crusades and Feudalism) • Revived emphasis on individual ability (humanism and secularism) • New idea of the well-rounded or universal person • 1350-1550

  4. Begins in Italy • England and France in Hundred Years’ War • Urban region with many cities • Cities had wealthy merchants to patronize the arts (like Medici family) • Concentrated in the city of Florence

  5. Values of the Renaissance • Humanism: celebration of the individual • Fame: seen in portrait painting and autobiographical writing • Shift from glory of God to personal glory • Secularism: enjoyed worldly pleasures • Classical learning of the Greeks and Romans

  6. Spirit of adventure (explorers, scientists) • Art used “perspective”, shading, new oil paints that reflected light, and studied the human anatomy. • Architecture blended beauty with utility.

  7. Describe your ideal man/woman?

  8. The Renaissance Man • “Universal Men” • Excelled in many fields • Strove to master almost every art • “Man can do anything if he will.” –Leon Battista Alberti

  9. The Renaissance Man • Well educated in Greek and Latin classics • Charming, polite, witty • Could dance, write poetry, sing, play music • Physically graceful and strong • Skilled in riding, wrestling, and swordsmanship

  10. The Renaissance Woman • BUT…. Not expected to seek fame as men did • Expected to inspire but not write poetry or create art • Did not take part in public/political life like men • Had little political, economic, or social influence • As educated as a man • Knew the classics • Could write well • Charming • Could paint, play music, dance

  11. The Medici of Florence • Among the richest merchants and bankers in Europe • Cosimo de Medici gained control of Florence in 1434, and family continued as uncrowned rulers of the city • Grandson, Lorenzo the Magnificent, was ideal Renaissance man • Patrons of the arts, brought artists to their palace

  12. Writers • Baldassare Castiglione: The Courtier • Erasmus: Dutch priest and humanist, translated Bible into vernacular, The Praise of Folly • Sir Thomas More: English humanist, Utopia • Shakespeare: English poet and playwright • Niccolo Machiavelli: • The Prince • Advice for rulers • “the end justifies the means” • “it is better to be feared than loved”

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