The Italian Renaissance Vitruvian man, Leonardo da Vinci, ca. 1492.
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“This century,” wrote philosopher Marsilio Ficino, “like a golden age has restored to light the liberal arts, which were almost extinct: grammar, poetry, rhetoric, painting, sculpture, architecture, music.” What a glorious time to be alive, he thought.
As Ficino recognized, a new age had dawned in Western Europe. Europeans called it the Renaissance, meaning “rebirth.” It began in the 1300s and reached its peak around 1500.
Began with a new interest in the cultures of ancient Rome and Greece
I. The Italian Renaissance
It was a time of reawakening after the disorder and disunity of the Medieval World
I. The Italian Renaissance
The Medici Family of Florence were among the richest bankers and merchants in Europe
I. The Italian Renaissance
Bottecilli's "The Adoration of the Magi" (1476) with the Medici family and friends
Lorenzo Medici was a patron and supported poets, philosophers, and artists
I. The Italian Renaissance
A change in the way people viewed themselves and their world
II. What was the Renaissance?
Auguste Rodin - The Thinker
Renaissance thinkers explored the human experience in the here and now
II. What was the Renaissance?
Renaissance art reflected humanist concerns
IV. The Arts
The Birth Of Venus by Sandro Botticelli (1485)
Architects adopted columns, arches, and domes from the Greeks and Romans
IV. The Arts
The Pantheon in Rome
Roman Aqueducts
Three of the most celebrated artists were Leonardo da Vinci
IV. The Arts
Mona LisaSelf-portrait Sketch of a man
Raphael
Raphael’s School of Athens was famous for depicting figures of the Classical past with the features of his Renaissance contemporaries
The Crucifixion