Agenda Warm Up Discussion: The Renaissance Image Analysis, famous Renaissance Painters Machiavelli… Your Muse Was the Renaissance relevant? Video Modern Day Printing Press? HW: Read Chapter 14.

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The Renaissance 14th-17th centuries

Renaissance A “rebirth/revival” of art and learning. Starts in Italy Medici family controls Florence through wealth. Part of the merchant class. Renaissance focuses on learning Greek and Roman traditions. (Powerful Empires) Shift away from Church teachings Beginning of the Modern Age

Humanism Focuses on human potential and achievement. Focuses on Greco-Roman values instead of Christian teachings. “Humanities” Petrarch Created a library of Roman and Greek Manuscripts. He aided in getting Greek and Roman names out to the public.

“It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both” Machiavelli Wrote “The Prince” in 1513. The handbook on how to control a country. Two perspectives: a way to give rulers an upper hand. A way to provide peasants with a guide to ruling families. “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”

Northern Renaissance Writings Erasmus: writes New Testament in the vernacular (common language). The Praise of Folly Sir Thomas More Wrote Utopia An ideal society where men and women live in harmony. Shakespeare Begins writing in the 1580s, also wrote in vernacular.

Gutenberg and the Printing Press 1456, Gutenberg invents the printing press. Created the complete edition of the bible, and it went on to sell 20 million copies. Many learn to read. Expanded intellectualism.

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Artists of the Renaissance Michelangelo Statue of David (Stone) Painting the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Artists of the Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci Born 1452, a genius. Paintings were realistic, a departure from Medieval works. Mona Lisa & The Last Supper

Artists of the Renaissance Donatello Credited with “David” (but a bronze one completed 40 years before Michelangelo’s).

Artists of the Renaissance Raphael Paintings represented an “ideal beauty” (Madonnas) School of Athens