1. The Renaissance

2. Part One: An Introduction To The Renaissance

3. What Is the Renaissance?
The Renaissance is the rebirth of interest in learning and the arts that began in Italy in the 1300’s
The Renaissance brought great advancements in literature, philosophy, visual art, theater, and architecture.

4. Why Italy?
Urban Growth
Trade during the Crusades led to the growth of the Italian cites of Venice, Florence, Milan, and revitalized Rome

5. Why Italy?
It was home to the original Roman empire where learning and art had flourished before!

6. Renaissance Values
Humanism – study of human beings and human achievement (new type of art that focused on people)
The Renaissance Man
An ideal individual who tried to master every area of study

7. Part Two: Renaissance Art

8. He was a writer, painter, sculptor, engineer, and an architect
Leonardo da Vinci
He was a writer, painter, sculptor, engineer, and an architect
“The Renaissance Man”
Self-Portrait (c. 1512)

9. Da Vinci’s Paintings
The Last Supper (1498)
Mona Lisa

10. Da Vinci and Flight Top: Flying Machine
Left: Wing for a Flying Machine

11. He was a painter, sculptor, and an architect
Michelangelo
He was a painter, sculptor, and an architect
Most successful painter of Renaissance
Self-Portrait

12. Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1508-1512)

13. St. Peter’s Basilica by Michelangelo

14. David,

15. Influenced by Leonardo Da Vinci
Raphael ( )
Influenced by Leonardo Da Vinci
Famous work is School of Athens
School of Athens,

16. Part Three: Literature During the Renaissance

17. Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince, 1513
Wrote book on how Kings gain power

18. William Shakespeare
English writer, wrote famous plays (Romeo and Juliet) and added hundreds of words to the English language
Focuses on human character and interaction