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Transformation of the West: The Renaissance

Explore the cultural and artistic movements that challenged medieval values and shaped the Western world. Learn about influential figures like Petrarch, Michelangelo, and Machiavelli, as well as the rise of humanism and the impact of the Italian Renaissance on literature, art, and politics. Discover the changes in technology, family structure, and politics during this transformative period.

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Transformation of the West: The Renaissance

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  1. Transformation of the West:The Renaissance

  2. A New Spirit and the Italian Renaissance • Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) • Secular writing Italian Renaissance • Artistic movement that challenged medieval intellectual values & styles • Italy was urbanized, commercial, & had city-state politics • War common among city-states • Petrarch & Boccacio • Promote literary canons

  3. The First Big Changes: Culture & Commerce 1450-1650 • Western art focused on realism • Leonardo da Vinci (painter & inventor) • Michelangelo (painter & sculpture) • Machiavelli (political theorist) • Humanism • Focus on human kind as the center of intellect & art • reintroduce the subjects of history, literature, and philosophy. • These are known as the humanities.

  4. Italian Renaissance Art • New techniques • Perspective • Realism • Artist • Michelangelo and Donatello both utilized realism to portray the human body. • Leonardo da Vinci was a painter and inventor • Mona Lisa and Last Supperand sketched drawings of machines hundreds of years before their time.

  5. Renaissance Literature and Machiavelli • Writers wrote for self-expression and to portray the individual • This becomes the foundation for modern writers • They wrote to advise others • Niccolo Machiavelli • Was a political theorist • Wrote the The Prince • Advises Rulers on how to gain and keep power • He says that a ruler must be willing to trick his enemies and his own people for the good of the state.

  6. The Renaissance Moves Westward • By 1500, impetus moves north • “Northern Renaissance” • France, Low Countries, Germany, & England • More concerned with religion than secularism • Writers: • Shakespeare • Rabelais • Cervantes

  7. Political Changes of the Renaissance • greater state powers • Kings use increased revenues to increase pomp & ceremony • Francis I • Feudalism still popular

  8. Changes in Technology & Family • Johannes Gutenberg • Movable type = printing • Expands literacy & ideas • European Style Family • Marry later • Emphasis on nuclear family • Limit birth rates • Property

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