1. Renaissance and Humanism
Humanism--- What was it all about?
the study of classical values ; a human being is good by nature
God should not be the centre of thinking: attention on humanity and this world

2. Why in Italy? The prosperity of towns
The princes and rulers of Italian city-states surrounded themselves with artists and humanists( founded academies, schools and ordered works of art)
Relics of classical antiquity in Italy
→ the Rebirth of ancient culture, also creating something new..

3. Renaissance Writers; some examples
Dante ( ) Divine Comedy; travels beyond the grave, meetings with Vergilius, at last reuniting with his beloved Beatrice in paradise
Petrarch ( ); Sonets to Laura
Boccaccio ( ); Decameron
Geoffrey Chaucer( ) ; Canterbury Tales
Cervantes ( ); Don Quijote

4. ..Writers..
William Shakespeare ( ); Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth
Sceptic
Unhappy people
Tragedies and comedies
Thomas More ( ); Utopia
- A theory of ideal state; six-hour working day, property should be shared, all religions accepted, rulers should be elected by the people life should be simple..

5. The impact on society/ on the whole world..
Rise of capitalism
Rise of political thought; Emergence of modern states ( collapse of feudalism)
Transformation of knowledge of universe; earth is not the centre…
Revolution of Religion; Reformation
Expansion of Europe
With the help of printing universal knowledge could be shared by wider public…

6. Tizian; Venus of Urbino 1538

7. Mona Lisa/ Da Vinci

9. Botticelli : Spring

10. Botticelli: Birth of Venus