1. What we Be DOING?? Syllabus and Class Expectations Textbooks
Notetaking
What you still know?!?!
Brief Lecture: The Renaissance
The Impact of the Black Death
Painting Analysis: Renaissance and Medieval
HW: Unit 1 Vocabulary

2. The Renaissance Period

3. The Renaissance A “rebirth” of art and learning.
Black Death ruins economic growth.
Medici family controls Florence through wealth.
Part of the merchant class.
Renaissance focuses on learning Greek and Roman traditions. (Powerful Empires)

4. Humanism Focuses on human potential and achievement.
Focuses on Greco-Roman values instead of Christian teachings.
“Humanities” (people not kings and gods)
Earlier humanists were loners, as Renaissance progresses, they become a major factor in civic life.

5. Petrarch Created a library of Roman and Greek Manuscripts.
Father of Humanism
He aided in getting Greek and Roman names out to the public.
“Sonnets to Laura” the ultimate long-distance relationship.

6. 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.

7. Renaissance Art Michelangelo Statue of David (Stone)
Painting the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
He wanted to show the biblical history of the world.

8. Renaissance Art Leonardo Da Vinci Born 1452, a genius.
Paintings were realistic, a departure from Medieval works.
Mona Lisa, The Last Supper

9. Renaissance Art Donatello
Credited with “David” (but a bronze one completed 40 years before Michelangelo’s.

10. Renaissance Art Raphael
Paintings represented an “ideal beauty”, Madonnas
School of Athens

11. Turtle Power

12. What makes these paintings different?

13. The Black Death Chart
After reading the excerpt on the Black Death, analyze and identify two major impacts on each institution within the graph. Religion, Economic, and Social Class are all mentioned.
Time to complete task: 10 minutes.