Renaissance Means REBIRTH Rebirth of art and learning Began in northern Italy.

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Transcript of Renaissance Means REBIRTH Rebirth of art and learning Began in northern Italy.

Renaissance• Means

REBIRTH

• Rebirth of art and learning

• Began in northern Italy

Economic Foundations

• Increased demand for Middle Eastern products

• Encouraged the use of credit and banking

• Letters of credit expanded supply of money and sped up trade.

• New accounting and bookkeeping practices used Arabic numerals

Italy• Italian city-states became

rich from trade: – Florence– Venice – Genoa

• They were trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe.

• Independent city-states governed as republics by wealthy merchants.

Niccolo Machiavelli• Wrote The Prince– guidelines for the

how to get power by absolute rule.

• Believed the ends justified the means

• One should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary.

Art and Literature• Medieval art and literature focused on the Church and salvation.

• Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldly matters, along with Christianity.

Artists and Writers

• Artists –Leonardo da

Vinci

–Michelangelo

• Writers–Petrarch

Leonardo da Vinci• Painted the

Mona Lisa and The Last Supper

• Handsome, athletic, singer, artist, scientist, inventor

Notebooks

Michelangelo• Painted the

ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David

• Sculptor, painter, architect, poet

The Sistine Chapel Ceiling

Creation of Eve Creation of Adam

Separation of Light and Darkness

The Last Judgment

Pieta

David

Moses 1513-1515

RaphaelPainter

1483-1520

The School of Athens

Pythagoras

Socrates

Plato and Aristotle

Euclid

Zoroaster & Ptolemy

Raphael (back)

Petrarch• Wrote Sonnets

• He wrote with a Humanistic approach

• Considered the “Father of Humanism”

Humanism• Celebrated the

individual• Stimulated the study

of Greek and Roman literature and culture

• Humanists were supported by PATRONS who were very wealthy

The Vitruvian Man

Northern Renaissance

• With the rise of trade, travel and literacy, the Italian Renaissance spread to northern Europe.

• The art and literature changed as people of different cultures adopted Renaissance ideas.

Northern Renaissance Writers• Erasmus—The

Praise of Folly (1511)

• Critical of corrupt church practices

• Catalyst for Protestant Reformation

Northern Renaissance Writers• Sir Thomas More

—Utopia (1516)

• Depicts world with perfect social, legal and political system

• Leading humanist scholar

The Printing Press

• Major invention of the Renaissance• Printing press created by Johannes Gutenberg

– Was the first way to print large amounts of text at once, instead of by hand or by blocks

– 1st book printed was the “Gutenberg Bible”• Influence of the printing press was…

– Made books faster and more accessible to people– Made books much cheaper than before– Increased the literacy rate of people in Europe– Allowed more people the ability to be educated