Chapter 12Section 2

The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance

Objectives:

• Explain Italian Renaissance Humanism• Compare and Contrast Greek Education to

Renaissance Education• Evaluate different Vernacular literature of the

Renaissance• Analyze changes in painting, Sculpture, and

Architecture

Humanism

• Humanism was based on the study of the classics, the literary works of the Greeks and Romans.

• Humanists studied the humanities- rhetoric, grammar, poetry, philosophy and history.

• Petrarch is referred to as the father of humanism and put an emphasis on classical Latin.– Focus on solitude, which shifted in Florence to a

more civic life.

Petrarch

Vernacular Literature

• Prominent writers-• Dante: an Italian, wrote Divine

Comedy • Chaucer: English author, The

Canterbury Tales– Story of 29 Pilgrims journey to the tomb

of Thomas a Becket.

• Christine de Pizan, a Frenchwoman known for her works in defense of women.

Education in the Renaissance

• Humanists believed that education can change human beings.

• Humanist educators stressed liberal arts curriculum and physical education.– Aim of education was not to create great

scholars, but complete citizens.

• Women were mostly absent from schools, but when attending they studied mostly religion and morals.

New Techniques in Painting

• A fresco is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster.

• Masaccio’s frescos in Florence are considered the finest masterpieces of the early Renaissance (1400-1490)

Focuses on perspective, making them look 3-D.– Two changes were stressed- the technical

and investigation of movement and anatomy.

• Sought Realism.

Masaccio- The Tribute Money

Brancacci Chapel

Sculpture and Architecture

• Donatello spent time studying in Rome and copying the statues of the Greeks and Romans.

• Filippo Brunelleschi was hired by the Medici family and designed the church of San Lorenzo.– Classical columns, rounded arches,

intended to not overwhelm

San Lorenzo

Closure:

• What did you learn today?

Objectives:

• List the Masters of the High Renaissance• Evaluate the differences between the Italian

Renaissance and the Northern Artistic Renaissance

Masters of the High Renaissance1490-1520

• Associated with three artistic giants: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.

• Leonardo- mastered realistic paintings, dissected bodies.

• Raphael- madonnas, frescos in the Vatican palace.

• Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel, painter, sculptor, architect.

Leonardo da Vinci

Raphael- School of Athens

Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel

Northern Artistic Renaissance

• Northern artist of present day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (low countries) focused on creating images for books and wooden altarpiece panels.

• Most important school of the low countries was found in Flanders. Jan van Eyck oil painting skills were learned there.

• Albrecht Dϋrer, German artist influences by Italians.

Eyck- Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride

Durer- Adoration of the Magi

Assessment

• In Class Page 387 1,2, 4-6• Quiz Tuesday

Leonardo da Vinci

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