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What is the 
Renaissance?

What is the 
Renaissance?. Understanding the important changes 
in Europe. Characteristics of the 
Renaissance. 1350-1600 AD Interest in the CLASSICS (Greece and Rome) Desire for ORDER Spirit of ADVENTURE

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What is the 
Renaissance?

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  1. What is the 
Renaissance? Understanding the important changes 
in Europe

  2. Characteristics of the 
Renaissance 1350-1600 AD Interest in the CLASSICS (Greece and Rome) Desire for ORDER Spirit of ADVENTURE HUMANISM: used Greek/Roman ideals to 
understand their lives! Focused on HERE AND 
NOW. Francesco Petrarch: early Renaissance humanist, poet, 
and scholar

  3. The_Center_of_the_Renaissance__Italy.wmv Begins in ITALY Why? Wealthy trading nation-states like 
Florence, Rome, and Venice had money to invest 
in painters, sculptors, and new buildings Influence of Muslim World’s writings Medici family in Florence

  4. Renaissance_Humanism__Reason__and_Art.wmv How did ART reflect the spirit of 
the Renaissance? Showed GREEK/ROMAN ideals Often had religious themes Use of perspective/realism, shading, oil Architecture: influence of Greece/Rome 
(domes/columns), arches

  5. Michelangelo__Renaissance_Artist__The_Ceiling_of_the_Sistine_Chapel.asfMichelangelo__Renaissance_Artist__The_Ceiling_of_the_Sistine_Chapel.asf Major Artists Michelangelo David, La Pieta, 
painted ceiling of 
Sistine Chapel Designed dome of St. 
Peter’s Cathedral in 
Rome

  6. Part of the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel This took him four years to create!

  7. Part_Four__Raphael_.asf Raphael Blended Christian and 
classical styles Painted “School of 
Athens”

  8. Part_Three__Brueghel_s_Depictions_of_Peasant_Life.asf Northern Renaissance Johann Gutenberg and 
Printing Press: effects? Jan Van Eyck and 
Pieter Bruegel: common 
people, used oil 
paintings for realism Gutenberg_s_Printing_Press_and_the_Spread_of_Ideas.wmv

  9. Writers Erasmus: “In Praise 
of Folly,” humor and 
sarcasm Sir Thomas More: 
utopian societies Rabelais: used 
characters to give 
opinions on religion DISTRUST OF 
ORGANIZED 
RELIGION

  10. William Shakespeare Sonnets Tragedies (Romeo and 
Juliet, Hamlet) Timeless works: still 
used today! The Globe Theater

  11. Influence of Shakespeare 
TODAY? 10 Things I Hate About 
You (The Taming of the 
Shrew): Julia Stiles O (Othello): Mekhi 
Pfifer, Josh Hartnett, 
Julia Stiles Romeo and Juliet : 
Leonardo Decaprio, 
Claire Danes

  12. Attachments The_Center_of_the_Renaissance__Italy.wmv Renaissance_Humanism__Reason__and_Art.wmv Michelangelo__Renaissance_Artist__The_Ceiling_of_the_Sistine_Chapel.asf Part_Four__Raphael_.asf Part_Three__Brueghel_s_Depictions_of_Peasant_Life.asf Gutenberg_s_Printing_Press_and_the_Spread_of_Ideas.wmv

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