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The Renaissance

The Renaissance. Why did it begin?. One Cause of Renaissance: The Crusades. Crusaders encountered new products while in the Middle East This increased demand for Middle Eastern products in Europe Stimulated production of goods to trade in Middle Eastern markets

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The Renaissance

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  1. The Renaissance Why did it begin?

  2. One Cause of Renaissance: The Crusades • Crusaders encountered new products while in the Middle East • This increased demand for Middle Eastern products in Europe • Stimulated production of goods to trade in Middle Eastern markets • Promoted contact with European kingdoms, Byzantines, and Muslim Empires • Encouraged the use of credit and banking

  3. Economic Concepts • Church sayz no usury • Non church banks show up • Letters of credit (Borrowing) served to expand the supply of money and expedited trade • New accounting and bookkeeping practices (use of Arabic numerals) were introduced

  4. Renaissance Trade • Which cities had an advantage in trading goods between the Middle East and Western Europe?

  5. Trading Routes • On the coast of the Mediterranean • In between Europe and the Middle East

  6. Florence, Venice, and Genoa • Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with the Middle Eastern markets • Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe • Were initially independent city-states governed as republics

  7. Political, Cultural and Social Achievements The Renaissance

  8. Machiavelli’s The Prince • An early-modern treatise on government • Basic Principles • One ruler with absolute power is OK • Maintains that the end justifies the means • Advises that one should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary

  9. Comparison: Art and Literature Medieval Renaissance Humanistic art which focused on Individuals worldly matters Christianity • Focused on the • Church • Salvation

  10. How Art was created during the Renaissance Patrons • Wealthy individuals/families who sponsored artists • Paid to have artistic works created • e.g. Medici family of Florence

  11. Humanism • Celebrated the individual • Showed emotion • Very life-like, realistic • Often depicted daily life (ordinary, not churchy) • Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture • Artists tried to imitate Greco-Roman style

  12. Renaissance Man • Someone well rounded in all fields of life • Painting, Sculpting • Inventing • Play music, write poetry • Science, Math, Languages • War (fighting and commanding) • Theology • etc. • Good example – Leonard da Vinci • His mirror writing • His Cover Letter

  13. Artistic and literary creativity • Leonardo da Vinci—Mona Lisa and The Last Supper • Michelangelo—Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and David • Petrarch—Sonnets, humanist scholarship • Dante – The Divine Comedy

  14. Time to Play Name that Artwork and Artist!

  15. The Last SupperLeonardo Da Vinci

  16. Mona LisaLeonardo Da Vinci

  17. DavidMichelangelo

  18. Sistine Chapel CeilingMichelangelo

  19. School of AthensRaphael

  20. Other examples

  21. Northern Renaissance

  22. Changes • Growing wealth in Northern Europe supported Renaissance ideas • Northern Renaissance thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity. • Gutenburg – The movable type printing press and the production and sale of books helped disseminate ides. • Northern Renaissance artists portrayed religious and secular subjects. • Martin Luther – The Church Reformation

  23. Writers • Northern Renaissance writers • William Shakespeare • Erasmus—The Praise of Folly (1511) • Sir Thomas More—Utopia (1516) 

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