1. The Renaissance The Enlightened Age

2. Renaissance What does it mean?  The Re-Birth The Re-Birth of what?  Greek and Roman Ideals When did it happen?  1300 ad -1600 ad Where did it happen?  It began in Florence, Italy, then spread through out Europe

3. Leading to the Renaissance… History occurs like a pendulum… Between 500 BC and 500 AD there was a surge of new ideas from the Greek and then the Roman Empires. Remember what BC & AD Stand for… Christianity was becoming more and more prevalent. And with the fall of the Roman empire, we began to enter the dark ages. Also know as: Medieval, Gothic

4. What caused this shift? A shift in the class system  In the middle ages, there was the system of the Nobles and the peasants – the very rich and the very poor  The Renaissance saw an appearance of a middle class- merchant bankers (like the Medici’s, more to come) This new middle class wanted to show there wealth, often through the commission of artwork.

5. What caused this shift? The Turks who lost their lands during the crusades, were now reclaiming their lands. The threat of invasion increased and the merchants, scholars and priests living in these areas began to flee to the west- especially Italy. With them they brought back treasures, artifacts, paintings and the only remaining classical manuscripts (books).

6. What caused this shift? The invention of the printing press allowed the recently rediscovered manuscripts to be printed and sold at prices the new middle class could afford.

7. What were the stages of the Renaissance? Early High Late – Mannerism Northern

8. Early Renaissance 1300-1400’s Artists to know:  Masaccio  Donatello  Brunelleschi  Botticelli  Mantegna

9. High Renaissance 1495-1525 – very short Created by a artists of genius:  Michelangelo  Da Vinci  Raphael

10. Late Renaissance- Mannerism The sack of Rome forced artists to leave Rome and find Patronage else where. This was also the beginning of the anticlassical movement.

11. Northern Renaissance 1500-1600 Unlike the Italian Renaissance, which focused on a rebirth of Humanistic, classical values, the Northern Renaissance was centered on a rebirth of the church. They were in the middle of religious reform and a revolt against “The Church,” …the Catholic Church.