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