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The Renaissance 1300s-1600s

The Renaissance 1300s-1600s. A rebirth of classic Greek & Roman learning which produced new attitudes towards culture and learning. It had a new emphasis on individual achievement where men explored the richness & variety of human experience in the here and now. (Watch Video on the Renaissance).

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The Renaissance 1300s-1600s

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  1. The Renaissance1300s-1600s A rebirth of classic Greek & Roman learning which produced new attitudes towards culture and learning. It had a new emphasis on individual achievement where men explored the richness & variety of human experience in the here and now.

  2. (Watch Video on the Renaissance) Citation (MLA)All About the Renaissance, Part One: Historical Background, Beginnings, and Art. United Learning. 2004. unitedstreaming. 5 April 2006 <http://www.unitedstreaming.com/>

  3. Italian City-statesFlorenceGenoaMilanNaplesPapal StatesSicilyVenice

  4. Central Mediterranean location Why Italy? Merchant trade PaxRomana ruins

  5. Humanism • Intellectual movement of the Renaissance • Focused on worldly, secular, subjects rather than on the religious issues that had occupied medieval thinkers • StudiaHumanitas (study of the humanities): grammar, rhetoric, poetry and history based on Greek & Roman texts How would this shift in thinking affect the people of the Renaissance?

  6. City-states: Florence

  7. Renaissance Architecture (Florence):Filippo Brunelleschi’s Dome

  8. Renaissance Architecture (Florence):The Palazzo Medici courtyard

  9. The Medicis of Florence • Prominent banking business (& textiles) • Cosimo de Medici gained control of Florence in 1434 • Graduated income tax (wealthier citizens paid more) • Used the tax revenue to improve the city (sewers & paved streets) • Lorenzo de Medici “The Magnificent” 1469-1492 • Patron (supporter) of artists, philosophers, writers & public festivals

  10. Another patron of the arts:Pope Julius II, Renaissance prince

  11. Renaissance Architecture (Venice):Central dome of St. Mark's Basilica

  12. Renaissance Architecture (Papal):Transept & part of St. Peter’s dome

  13. Which Renaissance artist was the greatest?

  14. Donatello(1386 -1466) The Feast of Herod St. John the Evangelist David The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence

  15. Botticelli (1445-1510) Madonna of the Magnificat La Primavera Madonna of the Book The Birth of Venus

  16. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) The Last Supper Self Portrait Helicopter Mona Lisa Womb Testa di Fanciulla Vitruvian Man

  17. Michelangelo (1475-1564) Sistine Chapel Pieta David Moses

  18. The School of Athens Raphael (1483-1520) Cowper Virgin Cherubini

  19. Renaissance Literature • Desiderius ErasmusThe Praise of Folly (1509) • Nicollò Machiavelli The Prince (1513) • Sir Thomas MooreUtopia (1518) • Baldassare CastiglioneThe Book of the Courtier (1528) • William Shakespeare – 37 plays: Romeo & Juliet, Othello, Hamlet, etc. (1590-1613) • Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote (1605)

  20. Nicollò Machiavelli’sThe Prince • Wrote The Prince in 1513 • “How to” book • Dedicated it to Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici (grandson of Lorenzo the Magnificent) • “It is better to be feared than loved” • “The ends justify the means” Nicollò Machiavelli Lorenzo Di Piero De' Medici

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