1. The Italian Renaissance

2. The Renaissance AD
It first began in the city-states of Italy
Italy’s central location helped make it a center for the trade of goods and ideas.

3. They believed education should stimulate creativity.
Italian scholars had a strong interest in the Classics (Greek and Roman writings)
This interest was called humanism.
They believed education should stimulate creativity.

4. Humanists
Humanists found the idea of a happy daily life more appealing than what the Catholic Church had been teaching in the Middle Ages all happiness will be found in heaven

5. The humanists opened schools that taught humanistic subjects
History
Philosophy
Latin and Greek
The humanist schools encouraged writing
Sonnets
Autobiographies
The first political science book, The Prince, by Machiavelli was written in this time period

6. The Prince was a guide for rulers to gain and maintain power
Rather than discuss high ideals, he stressed that the ends justify the means.
The term Machiavellian has come to refer to the use of deceit in politics

7. City life was more important to Italians than many other Europeans
The Italian city-states set up their social order so that wealth and ability mattered more than titles and land ownership.
City-states were governed by wealthy families until the 1400s
These families brought trade and wealth, and provided leadership.
They were interested in art and emphasized personal achievement.
They were patrons of the arts and supported artists, writers, and scholars.

8. The Medici family of merchants and bankers controlled Florence after 1434.
Lorenzo de' Medici invited
poets, philosophers, and artists to the city.
The city of Florence became a
leader, with numerous gifted
artists, poets, architects,
and scientists.

9. Italian Art
Italian art also underwent a transformation during the Renaissance.
Art in the Medieval period had almost always been based on religion.
The new artists started to include classical mythology into their works.

10. Changes in style
Artists started to use perspective to give painting depth.
They studied anatomy so their figures looked more life like.
They used subtleties to portray emotion.

11. Typical
medieval
Church art.
Two
dimensional,
religious subject
matter, no
use of perspective.

12. Game of Chess Painting shows use of anatomy, perspective and emotion.
By Sofonisba
Anguissola
1555 AD.
She was 23
when she
painted this.

13. The Masters and the Ninja Turtles?
Some of the best known artists came from Florence, Italy.
They will change the way Europe looked at art for centuries.
They were…..

14. Donatello Given name was Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi
He created a life-size soldier
on horseback, the first
sculpture of this size since
ancient times.
He was the son of a
wool comber.
He was a sculptor.

15. Michelangelo
Given name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni) the son of a minor magistrate (judge).
He started out as a sculptor
but later became a painter.
He is most famous for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Florence.

16. Sistine
Chapel
St. Peter’s
Cathedral

17. Ghiberti Given name was Lorenzo Ghiberti He gained his fame
for creating door
panels for a church.

18. And last but not least--- Leonardo (DaVinci)
Painter, sculptor, inventor and mathematician.
He often wrote from right to left called “mirror writing”.
Some of his inventions were centuries before his time.
Some of his best known works were…

19. The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper

20. Can you guess what he was drawing?

21. This is what he was drawing…

22. Was there really a Da Vinci Code?
According to the book and the “Grail” theory of Biblical history Mary Magdalene was the wife of Jesus Christ and was in fact pregnant with his child when Jesus was crucified.
Da Vinci was known for writing in code or “mirror writing”.
No one knows for sure if the “Grail” theory is real or not.

23. The Last Supper as “proof”?