The Origins of the

1. The Origins of the Renaissance

2. Caused by • A new interest in Classical art • The growth of Trade and Commerce • The influence of Italian City-States • The growth of Humanism

3. What is the Renaissance? • Means “re-birth” • Stood for a rebirth of art, culture, and thinking after the middle ages • Brought about by a new interest in classical art and writing • Muslim scholars and monks preserved artifacts, books from Greece and Rome

4. Vocabulary: Classical • Describes the art and writing of ancient Greece and Rome • Plato • Aristotle • Ptolemy • Etc.

5. Classical • Features of Classical art: • Attention to lifelike anatomy • Figures often draped in fabric or nude • Figures shown in action or motion • Faces calm, without emotion • Depict everyday life or myths, legends • Little background or perspective • Columns, arches, etc. • Valued balance and harmony

6. Vocabulary: Medieval • Describes art, writing, architecture from the middle ages (Fall of Rome in AD 476 to 1400’s)

7. Medieval • Features of Medieval art: • Most art was religious • Important figures were larger than less important ones • Backgrounds were one color, usually Gold • Figures appear 2-D • Faces were serious, showed little feeling • Bright paint colors

9. Vocabulary: Renaissance • Describes art, writing, architecture from the Renaissance (1400’s – 1600’s) • Michelangelo • Donatello • Rafael • DaVinci

10. Renaissance • Features of Renaissanceart: • Showed religious and non-religious scenes • Great interest in nature • Lifelike, 3-D figures, lifelike anatomy • Figures nude or clothed • Faces expressed emotion, thoughts • Paintings were symmetrical • Full backgrounds showed perspective

12. Pop Quiz! • Identify these artworks as Classical, Medieval, or Renaissance, and write two reasons each. 2 3 1

13. Caused by • A new interest in Classical art • The growth of Trade and Commerce • The influence of Italian City-States • The growth of Humanism

14. Money Makes the World Go Round • Because of the Crusades, new trade routes were established. • Lucky towns like Florence, Venice, and Genoa (in Italy) became wealthyas merchants stopped to trade and stay ininns

15. Vocabulary: Commerce • The medieval economy wasbased on bartering. • In the Renaissance, wealthy citiesbegan making their own coins, creatingcommerce, a money economy • Bankers exchanged coins from different cities and gave people (both rich and poor) loans

16. Vocabulary: Patron • Craftspeople, merchants, and bankers became IMPORTANT in society. • They also became very RICH. • With their wealth, they paid artists, architects, sculptors, and garden designers to make their city more beautiful. • A person who supports the arts by supplying money is called a patron.

17. Vocabulary: City-State

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19. Homework: You guys are so immature.

20. Pop Quiz! • In Renaissance Italy, who were patrons, and what did they do?

21. Caused by • A new interest in Classical art • The growth of Trade and Commerce • The influence of Italian City-States • The growth of Humanism

22. Vocabulary: State 2 • A state is a politically organized group of people under a single government 1 3

23. Village Town City  City-State • Cities like Florence & Venice began producing their own currency (coins), patrons began sponsoring artists • Cities developed into City-States with their own governments. • Elected councils and/or rich families

24. City-States competed with each other Venice! Florence! Bruges!

25. Competition meant…. • More Art! ...and more art!

26. Caused by • A new interest in Classical art • The growth of Trade and Commerce • The influence of Italian City-States • The growth of Humanism

27. Medieval Thinking • The individual is only a tiny part of the system. • The individual is not important • Religious topics are the only thing worth studying.

28. Vocabulary: Humanism • Focused on the rights and dignity of individuals • Studied nature, human society

29. Humanists fueled the Renaissance by… • Studying classical art, ideas • Studying, painting, imitating nature • …but some people were burnt at the stake for their ideas….