1. Renaissance Gallery Walk Overview

2. “Renaissance” means… “rebirth” Rebirth of art and learning
Rebirth of art and learning from the Greek and Roman Empires

3. RENAISSANCE WRITERS PETRARCH: Starts the Renaissance
Father of “humanism”
And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not. – St. Augustine

4. RENAISSANCE WRITERS ERASMUS:
The Praise of Folly – said that to improve society, all should study the Bible
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Utopia – imaginary land inhabited by peaceful people; no use for money;
means “no place” in Latin, but in English means “ideal place”

5. PRINTING SPREADS RENAISSANCE IDEAS
Chinese 1st invent block printing
JOHANN GUTENBERG: reinvents moveable type & comes up with printing press
Gutenberg Bible: first full size book printed
Came in English, French, and German  VERNACULAR (own language) increased
Can produce 100’s of copies
Encouraged people to learn to read!  RISE IN LITERACY & IDEAS SPREAD FASTER

6. RENAISSANCE WRITERS, PART II
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Greatest playwright of all time: sonnets, plays, essays
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Julius Caesar
King Lear

7. PERSPECTIVE
3 Dimensional
Distant objects are smaller

8. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art

9. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art

10. SHADING
Helps objects to look more realistic; 3-D look VS

11. NINJA TURTLES: LEONARDO
LEONARDO DA VINCI: painter, sculptor, inventor, & scientist  a true “Renaissance Man”
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper

12. NINJA TURTLES: MICHELANGELO
MICHELANGELO: sculptor and painter
Sistine Chapel
Statue of David

13. NINJA TURTLES: DONATELLO
DONATELLO: sculptor and painter;
Revealed personality in his art
One of the first to do a nude statue
First bronze statue of St. Louis of Toulouse

14. NINJA TURTLES: RAPHAEL
RAPHAEL studied from Michelangelo and Leonardo; painter
Madonna and Child
School of Athens