Introduction to the Renaissance

Medici

  • Medici family was the most popular patrons during this time
  • most famous of this family was Lorenzo De Medici

Names and People

  • ==Petrarch==- father of humanism and famous for latin poems and writings
  • ==Castolli==- wrote the book of the courtier
  • ==Niccoli Mashievelli== -wrote the prince
  • ==Erasumus== -pointed out the evils in society and published the greek new testament
  • ==Corvantes==- wrote don quixote
  • ==Shakespeare==- greatest play write and poet
  • ==Giotto di bondone==- father of renaissance paintings
  • ==Brotticelli==- added another dimension to art movement
  • ==Leonardo DeVinci==- talented sculptor, musician, architect, painter (painted ‘The Last Summer’)
  • ==Raphael==- painted ‘The School of Athens’
  • ==Michelangelo==- painted ‘The Sistine Chapel’ ( known as the ‘Queen o fifth Adriatic’); sculpted the ‘pieta’ and the ‘marble statue of david’
  • ==Tiziano Vercelli (Titan)== - leader of the Ti
 School of

  • ==Durer== - considered the Leonardo of the North; famous for wood cravings and engravings
  • ==Holbein== - Durer’s german partner'; finest portrait painter of the north
  • ==Ghibert== - built bronze doors fo rthe florence bapistry
  • ==Brunelleachi== - the standing glory of the florence cathedral
  • ==Donatello== - leading sculpture of the renaissance (sculpted freestanding sculptures; such as the ‘statue of david’)

Positive Effects

  • provokes a spirit of inquiry
  • revived interest of literature and language of antiquity
  • Invention of the printing press
  • Education was more widely available
  • Stressed the importance of the individual

Negative Effects

  • It helped weaken moral restraints and made the need for reform more readily apparent
  • Classical world often embraced its evils
  • Led to the worship of classical ideas