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The Renaissance

The Renaissance. The Beginnings of the Renaissance. 1400-1450. Medici Video. Economic. Political. Control town Pay off officials to get out of jail Subject of art pieces (David) Marriages to key political figures. Patrons of the arts Patron to artists and architects

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The Renaissance

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  1. The Renaissance

  2. The Beginnings of the Renaissance 1400-1450

  3. Medici Video Economic Political Control town Pay off officials to get out of jail Subject of art pieces (David) Marriages to key political figures • Patrons of the arts • Patron to artists and architects • Took control of papal treasury • Put money into Florentine banks to rebuild

  4. Religious Culture/Art Patron to many artists Commission: David, Duomo, Primavera, Birth of Venus, Donatello’s David • Controlled papal funds • Pope Leo X’s filling of position with friends • Boys would be marked for the church at a young age • Cozza the pirate becoming Pope with Medici influence

  5. Beginnings in Italy • Social Reasons • Why Venice and Florence? • Shifting attitudes towards life and the individual • Humanism • Individualism • Secularism

  6. Characteristics and Ideals Middle Ages Renaissance Highest good = human achievement Gratify earthly pleasures MAN Secularism Participation Nature Flesh and body Reason Individualism Urban Wealth and leisure • Highest good = salvation • Self-denial • GOD • Religion • Withdraw from world • Supernatural • Spirit and soul • Faith • Corporatism • Rural • poverty

  7. Ideas from the Ancient World • Education • Literature • Architecture • Art

  8. Renaissance Art • Themes • Classical themes • Statues • Religious topics • Portraits • Secular ideas • Realist • Bodies are depicted in a scientific manner • sexualized • Techniques • Perspective • Symmetry • Geometric shapes

  9. Perspective and Symmetry Medieval Renaissance

  10. Geometric Shapes • The Virgin of the Rocks – Da Vinci, 1486

  11. Other DaVinci Works“A True Renaissance Man”

  12. Medical interests

  13. Technological interests

  14. Document Discussions

  15. 1. Art Piece • Jan Van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride, 1434 • 1. Define the purpose • Why paint this? • Create beauty, reveal truth, immortalize, express religious values, stimulate intellect, create harmony or chaos, reflect society and culture, protest, express the universal, meet his/her own needs? • 2. Look at the elements • Locate focal point • Define medium and size • Abstract or realistic? • Light or dark colors? • What mood does it create? • What type of brush strokes are used? • Shapes, spaces, perspective, positions of subjects/objects

  16. Analyzing a Primary Source • Subject • Occasion • Audience • Purpose • Speaker

  17. “A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism” ~ Francesco Petrarch • Subject • What is the topic? • Main points? • What evidence supports the idea being expressed in the text? • Occasion • When and where was this written? • Long or short lapse of time between the event and the publishing of document? • Medium of document • Audience • Who is the intended audience? • Purpose • Why was it written? • Explicit or Implicit message? • Short or long term effects of the documents? • Speaker • Who is the author? • Does the author have authority to write on this topic? Was s/he an eyewitness? • What is the author’s background? Does this lend to any bias s/he may have?

  18. The Northern Renaissance

  19. Characteristics of Northern Renaissance Art • The continuation of late medieval attention to details. • Tendency toward realism & naturalism [less emphasis on the “classical ideal”]. • Interest in landscapes. • More emphasis on middle-class and peasant life. • Details of domestic interiors. • Great skill in portraiture.

  20. Renaissance Art Presentations

  21. Take notes on the following: • Name of Painting • Name of Artist and country of origin • Date completed • Characteristics that make it Renaissance (with examples from painting)

  22. Renaissance Society

  23. Societal Values • Humanism • Individualism • Secularism

  24. The status of the artist • Improved since the Middle Ages • Respected and awarded by society • Artist is now seen as genius

  25. Women and the Renaissance • Women’s status declined • Women worked both in and out of the house

  26. Slavery and Ethnicity • Origins • Slaves come to Western Europe • The beginnings of African slavery in Europe

  27. Education • Humanist views • Women in Education

  28. Political Thought • The Prince, 1513 • NiccoloMacciavelli (1469-1527) • Subject Matter • Humanist thoughts

  29. The Printed Word • The emergence of moveable type • Effects

  30. Clocks • Beginnings of measuring time • Importance to the city • Effects

  31. The New Monarchies

  32. What’s so new? • High Middle Ages • Local sheriffs and judges • Representative assemblies • Nobles kept the state from centralizing power • Renaissance • Stop violence • Stop nobles • Establish domestic order through establishing power • Monarchy is one institution • All powerful • Respect and loyalty from all subjects

  33. Complete chart on New Monarchs using your reading from the textbook

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