1. The Renaissance
in Italy
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2. The philosopher Marsilio Ficino smiled with pleasure as he watched the sun cast a golden glow over his native city
of Florence. “This century like a golden age has restored to light the liberal arts, which were almost extinct: grammar, poetry, rhetoric, painting, sculpture, architecture, music.”

3. Why Did the Renaissance Begin in Italy?1
Why Did the Renaissance Begin in Italy?
The Renaissance was marked by a new interest in the culture of ancient Rome. Italy had been the center of the Roman empire.
The cities of Italy had survived the Middle Ages and grown into prosperous centers of trade and manufacturing. In the North Florence, Milan, Venice and Genoa. Rome in Central Italy, and Naples in the South.
A wealthy merchant class in the Italian city-states stressed education and individual achievement and spent lavishly on the arts.

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Renaissance Italy 1505

5. Rome

6. Venice

7. Florence and the Medicis
Assassins Creed II
More than any other city in Italy Florence became the symbol for the Renaissance, it produced poets, artists, architects, scholars, and scientists.
The Medici family were bankers who expanded into wool manufacturing, mining and other business. Cosimo de Medici became the leader of Florence in 1434, and the Medici family became uncrowned rulers for many years.
Lorenzo de’ Medici was known as the “Magnificent”. He was a clever politician and generous patron [financial supporter of the arts. Under Lorenzo poets and philosophers as well as artists frequented the Medici palace.

8. Florence

9. What Was the Renaissance?1
What Was the Renaissance?
The Renaissance was a time of creativity and change in many areas–political, social, economic, and cultural. Perhaps most important, however, were the changes that took place in the way people viewed themselves and their world.

10. A New World View
It was time for a REBIRTH after the problems and lack of learning of the Medieval time
Renaissance Europe actually benefited from the work that monks and scholars had done during medieval times. The math of Euclid, astronomy of Ptolemy, and the works of Aristotle were all preserved as well as Latin by medieval people.
Many new attitudes toward culture and learning. Renaissance thinkers explored the here and the after. New emphasis on individual achievement, the ideal person was talented in many different areas. Liberal Arts

11. A Spirit of Adventure People began exploring new worlds.
Christopher Columbus sailed to America in 1492.
Nicolaus Copernicus changed the way Europeans viewed the universe
Writers and Artists created new forms of art.

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Humanism
At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was an intellectual movement known as humanism.
Humanism was based on the study of classical culture and focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues.
Humanists studied the humanities, the subjects taught in ancient Greece and Rome. They believed that education should stimulate creativity.
Francesco Petrarch’s Sonnets to Laura inspired later writers, he got his ideas from classic writers like Cicero, Homer, and Virgil.

13. A Golden Age in Arts
Most recognizable form of expression from the Renaissance is the art
Wealthy patrons helped fund artists
Popes and Royalty supported many artists
Isabella d’Este of Mantua was a female patron

14. Humanist Concerns Most artists painted religious figures
As the renaissance went on artists also painted well known people of the day, reflecting the individual achievement part of humanism.
Artists studied ancient Greek and Roman works
Donatello was the first to create life size sculptures, since classic times

15. Painters studied how detailed Roman art was and learned the practice of perspective.
Painters used shading and painters and sculptors also studied anatomy and drew from live models. This portrayed the human body more accurately.
New Techniques

16. Women Artists
Few women became artists because of the lack of education and opportunity
Some women kept their own artistic talent secret allowing their work to passed of as their husbands
Some women like Sofonisba Anguissola, and Italian noblewomen, became well known, Sofonisba was a painter in King Philip of Spain’s court.

17. Architecture
Artists went away from the Gothic style of the Middle Ages, thinking it was cluttered and disorderly
Renaissance architects adopted the columns, arches, and domes of the Greeks and Romans
Filippo Brunelleschi created a dome modeled after the Pantheon.

18. Three Geniuses of Renaissance Art1
LEONARDO
MICHELANGELO
RAPHAEL
Made sketches of nature and of models
Dissected corpses to learn how the human body worked
Masterpieces include Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
Studied botany, anatomy, optics, music, architecture, and engineering
Made sketches for flying machines and undersea boats
Talented sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet
Sculpted the Pieta and statue of David
Painted huge mural to decorate the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome
Designed the dome for St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome
Studied the works of Michelangelo and Leonardo
Paintings blended Christian and classical styles
Best known for paintings of the Madonna, the biblical mother of Jesus

19. Leonardo

20. Michelangelo

21. Raphael

22. Donatello

23. What do those 4 artists
names remind you of?

24. Ghiberti

25. Italian Renaissance Writers
Poets, artists, and scholars mingled with politicians at the courts of Renaissance rulers. A literature of “how-to” books sprang up to help ambitious men and women who wanted to rise in this time period.

26. Catiglione’s Ideal Courtier
The Book of the Courtier was the most widely read of the “how to” books.
Baldassare Castiglione talks about the manners, skills, learning, and virtues that court members should have.
The perfect courtier was a well educated, well mannered, aristocrat who was well rounded in ability from poetry to sports
Ideal man was athletic but not overactive, good at games but not a gambler, plays instruments and knows literature and history but is does not have to prove that at every opportunity
Ideal women is a balance to men, graceful and kind, lively but reserved, beautiful “for outer beauty is the true sign of inner goodness”

27. Machiavelli’s Successful Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote a handbook called “The Prince” combined his experience of politics with his knowledge of the paste to offer a guide to rulers on how to gain and keep power
Machiavelli has served in the courts of many royals as a diplomat.
He wrote not of high ideals for leaders but of ruthless power politics. He stressed the end justifies the means, no matter what a ruler had to do to achieve their goals. Results were more important than keeping promises.

28. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince 1469-1527
“How praiseworthy it is for a prince to keep his word and live with integrity rather than craftiness, everyone understands; yet… those princes have accomplished most who paid little heed to keeping their promises, but who knew craftily to manipulate the minds of men.”

29. Machiavelli’s Successful Prince cont.
Machiavelli saw himself as an enemy of oppression and corruption, but critics attacked his advice, some claimed he was inspired by Satan
Machiavellian is defined as the use of deceit in politics
Most historians today believe Machiavelli was the first to take a realistic look at politics, and his work still causes thought as it raises ethical questions about how governments use power.