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A Time of Creativity and Change in Europe Renaissance - Rebirth I. The Renaissance Where is All Begin

• Italy

• Why Italy?

  • Nostalgia for Ancient Rome

    • The New availability of Ancient Greek and Roman writings (aided by fall off Constantinople)

    • Italian Merchants had money because of the increase of trade for the Crusades

The Medici Family

• Rich banking family from Florence

• Cosimo de’ Medici gained control of the city-state government and the Medici family controlled it for years

• Patrons- Financial supporters of the arts.

Humanism

• An intellectual movement during the Renaissance

• Focused on worldly subjects rather than religious issues

  • Life can be better in the here and now.

    • A recognition of the abilities that man possess and cultivate action of those abilities. (Individualism)

    • A love of classic literature

Considered the height of renaissance were the paintings, sculptures, and architecture of the time.

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II. The Renaissance Art Architecture

• Rejection of the Gothic style as cluttered and disorganized

• Adopted the columns, arches, and domes of the Greeks and Romans.

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)

• Commissioned by the Medici’s to create a church in Florence (Il Duomo Cathedral)

• Studied the parthenon in Rome and used a ribbed design to internally support the dome of the cathedral.

Donatello (1386-1466)

• Know for his use of 3 dimensions, expressions, and realism in his sculptures

• The Bronze Sculpture of David

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

• Only 17 paintings

  • Mona Lisa

    • Last Supper

    • Madonna of the Rocks

• Notebooks

  • Drawing of unfinished works

    • Used science to support art

    • Coded and Read R-L with a mirror

Technology

• Hydraulics

• Principles of turbine

• Vehicles on land

• Parachutes

• Cartography

• Submarine

• Flying Machines

• Architecture

• Scientific Method

Renaissance man

• A Broad Knowledge about many things in different fields

• Deep knowledge of skill in one area

• Able to tie together or see the reaction in different areas and create new knowledge

Michaelangelo (1475-1564)

• Sculptures

  • Pieta

    • David

• Painting

  • Sistine Chapel

• Architect

• Poet

Raphael (1483-1520)

• Studied the worlds of Michelangelo and Da Vinci

• Chosen as an Architect for St. Peters Basilica

• Works include paintings of the Madonna and The School of Athens which included himself, Michelangelo with Socrates and Plato

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III. Renaissance Literature Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

• Florence

• “The Prince”

  • Less concerned about high ideals

    • Written from a secular standpoint

    • How to get power and hold on to that power

    • Appearances are sometimes more important than actuality

    • “Machiavellian Politics”

Erasmus (1466-1536)

• Dutch Humanist

• Attacked corruption in the church using satire. (The praise of Folly)

• Pushed for translations of the Bible into everyday venacular.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• The most famous writer of this period.

• 37 Plays

  • Tragedies

    • Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, McBeth

    • Comedies

      • Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night

    • History

      • Julius Caesar, Richard III

    • Added 1000’s of words to the English Language

    • Poems

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616)

• Don Quixote

  • A foolish but idealistic knight.

    • Mocked the romantic notions of chivalry