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The Renaissance in Italy 1300-1500

The Renaissance in Italy 1300-1500. Features of the ITALIAN Renaissance. What does the word mean? New Secular and scientific values combine with a spirit of adventure and curiosity (a desire to comprehend the world in which they live) Still Christian in attitude but transition from:

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The Renaissance in Italy 1300-1500

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  1. The Renaissance in Italy 1300-1500

  2. Features of the ITALIAN Renaissance • What does the word mean? • New Secular and scientific values combine with a spirit of adventure and curiosity (a desire to comprehend the world in which they live) • Still Christian in attitude but transition from: • Medieval to modern world • religious to lay authority • Agricultural to urban • Focus on HUMAN experience in the here and now

  3. Why Italy • History and geography • The Papacy • Trade • Wealth of city states Created Patronsto support the arts • Ex: Florence: The Medici’s • Ideas from the East

  4. Humanism • Intellectual movement which celebrated the dignity of mankind. The study of Latin and Greek classics and of Church fathers for their own sake, not to come to a closer understanding of God • Still pious Christians • Education to stimulate creativity • Rhetoric, Poetry, History • Francesco Petrarch: Father of Italian humanism • Letters to the Ancient Dead

  5. A new secular spirit • Material instead of eternal world • Pope Julius II tore down the old St. Peters basilica (Michelangelo the dome) • (next slide) • Machiavelli The Prince: No need to be guided by a pre-determined code of behavior • Safer to be feared than loved • “Ruthless political expediency” (ends justify means)

  6. St. Peters Dome

  7. New Techniques and skills • Painting • Oil paints • Chiaroscuro (light and shade) • Linear perspective • Frescoes • Realism / Detail /Human Anatomy • Architecture: Return to Classical style • Columns, Domes and Arches • Filippo Brunelleschi

  8. Important Renaissance Artists • Michelangelo : Pieta, David, Sistine Chapel • Leonardo DaVinci: Mona Lisa, inventor, dissection of corpses • Raphael: Madonna's, School of Athens • Botticelli: The Birth of Venus, Adoration of the Magi • Brunelleschi: The Cathedral of Florence, Linear perspective

  9. Brunelleschi’s Dome in Florence

  10. The Vocation of Peter and Andrew (Duccio)

  11. The Birth of VenusBotticelli

  12. Mona Lisa and anatomy sketchesLeonardo DaVinci

  13. The Pieta and Moses at the tomb of Pope Julius II

  14. Michaelangelo, The David

  15. Creation (Mike, Sistene Chapel)

  16. Last Judgment

  17. The School of Athens (Raphael)

  18. Leonardo Da Vinci

  19. The Renaissance in the North Albrecht Durer Self Portrait Chapter 13 section 2

  20. The Northern Renaissance • Centered in Flanders • Differences: Deeply concerned with religion • Religious upheaval • Called for a return to an earlier simple Christian faith emphasis on the common people • Northern Artists specialize in: landscapes, detailed portraits, images of every day life (commoners) • Smaller more transportable ($ motive) • Not as much classical influence or fascination with form

  21. The Printing Revolution • Johannes Guttenberg 1455 • Impact?

  22. Jan Van Eyck (Arnolfini)

  23. Pieter Bruegel

  24. Albrecht Durer: Michelangelo of the North (painter, engravings)

  25. Norhtern Humanists • Desiderius Erasmus from Holland -The Praise of Folly -Critical of the Church and Clergy of the period “Father” of the Northern humanist movement

  26. Shakespeare • Human ordeal examined • Classical influence • “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world; the paragon of animals.” Hamlet

  27. Sir Thomas More • Utopia (“No place”) social commentary • IMPROVE SOCIETY

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