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What is the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about art?
What is your favorite movie?
What is your favorite book?
What is your favorite song?
Why are you as an individual important?
What might cause you to get more interested in learning?

2. The Renaissance

3. The Late Middle Ages in Europe (1000-1300 C.E)
Food supply increased
Switch to horsepower
Three-Field System
Population increased
Towns and cities grew
Trade increased as a result of the Crusades
Growth of education
Contact with Byzantines and Muslims

4. The Commercial Revolution & the Rise of the Merchant Class
Guilds-group of individuals in the same business working to improve work conditions.
Trade increased and people got wealthy & powerful-merchants
Expansion of trade + business= Commercial Revolution
Trade Fairs
The rise of banking

5. The Rise of the Renaissance
The end of the Middle Ages and Feudalism
Bubonic Plague
Hundred Years War
Survivors wanted to celebrate!
Trade in the northern Italy made ideas spread quickly
Many powerful merchants, like the Medici Family (bankers) in Florence, Italy, bought this art.
Church leaders did the same
Art-looked to beautify ancient Rome and Greece
Renaissance-revival of art and learning which began in northern Italy

6. The Renaissance Begins in Italy
As plague sacked most European cities, some cities remained strong because of trade.
Florence, Italy (wealthiest)
Wealthy Merchant Class
Medici Family (bankers)
Classical heritage of Rome and Greece
Many of the greatest artists and writers came from Italy

7. The Rise of Humanism
As people studied the classics of Greece and Rome, this led to Humanism.
Humanism-intellectual movement focusing on human potential
Led away from the Church
People became more secular, or worldly.
The Renaissance Man-man who mastered every area of study

8. Renaissance Art Art changed More realistic Greek and Roman subjects
Perspective-technique showing 3 dimensions on a flat surface.
Human body used often
Flemish Painting became popular in Northern Europe

9. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

10. Raphael’s School of Athens

11. Donatello’s Statue of David

12. Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel

13. Which Would You Choose?

14. Gates of Paradise

15. The Florence Cathedral

16. Renaissance Writing
Started to write in the vernacular (native language) instead of just Latin
Dante was the first to write in the vernacular in The Divine Comedy.
Writing was more secular-not religious
Human individuality and emotion (Humanism)
Erasmus (Christian Humanist)- In Praise and Folly depicts love and human emotion, and makes fun of certain people in society.
Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more; But of the good to treat, which there I found, Speak will I of the other things I saw there. Dante’s Inferno from The Divine Comedy And next these come those that commonly call themselves the religious and monks, most false in both titles, when both a great part of them are farthest from religion…(I P & F).

17. The Renaissance Spreads North
Petrarch-Father of Humanism-sonnets to Laura
Machiavelli-The Prince about leaders, government, and control
Thomas More-Utopia about a perfect society (Christian Humanist)
William Shakespeare-Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, etc.