1. Renaissance Review
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25 True/False
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2. Beginnings
Renaissance began in wealthy northern Italian trade centers like Venice and Florence where contact with Byzantine and Moslem Empires flourished. (cultural diffusion?)

3. Family Family bond was a source of great security
Marriages arranged to strengthen a families’ position or wealth
Contracts sometimes made at age 2 or 3 with a dowry paid by female’s family to husband’s family
Father had total control of family
Fathers had to free their children in court for them to move out on their own

4. Merchants & the Medici
The Medici family of Florence become wealthy from banking, wool manufacturing, mining, trade.
Patrons of the arts.
Michelangelo was among the artists who benefited.

5. Lucrezia Borgia Famous Renaissance woman
She was a generous patron of the arts
Her father was Pope Alexander VI.
Mother of 8

6. Lifestyle Shops and business on ground floors, crowded living above
Wealthy people had large homes, but little privacy.

7. Classicism Renewed interest in Greek and Roman culture and values.
Michelangelo’s sculpture of David reflects the blending of religious ideals with Greek and Roman humanist philosophy.
The statue appears to show David after he has made the decision to fight Goliath but before the battle has actually taken place, a moment between conscious choice and action
Note the idealized figure and accurate proportions Greek style.

8. Questioning Spirit
Francesco Petrarch ( ); Renaissance writer and Florentine humanist.
Collected Greek and Roman writings, such as the poetry of Virgil and Homer
Wrote secular poetry about love and life in the here and now, not just in the afterlife.

9. Questioning Spirit Writers, thinkers began to criticize “old” ways.
Erasmus wrote “Praise of Folly”, ridiculed the church, corrupt officials, and Clergy.
Cervantes wrote “Don Quixote”, poked fun at chivalry and the Middle Ages.

10. Intellectual & Creativity
Johannes Gutenberg invented the moveable type printing press.
making written materials available to multitudes

11. Intellectual & Creativity
Nicolo Machiavelli wrote “The Prince”, he advised Monarchs to concentrate power.
Machiavelli’s ideas have been used by despots to justify abusive use of power.
“The end justifies the means”

12. Intellectual & Creativity
Leonardo DaVinci- ultimate Renaissance man.
Great accomplishments in the fields of art, science, engineering and architecture.
Mona Lisa
Last Supper
Sketches of first aeroplane, parachute, helicopter
Used bodies at morgue at night to learn anatomy for his art. Airplanes & helicopters, water shoes

13. Intellectual & Creativity
Renaissance Architecture
Arches half circle like in Roman building.
Columns and elements reflect ancient Greece and Rome.
Paintings done of fresh plaster- fresco

14. Secularism Writers began writing in vernacular
Dante Alighieri wrote “The Divine Comedy” in Italian, telling the epic journey through hell.
Geffrey Chaucer wrote “Canterbury Tales” in English, telling tales of Medieval life.
the locally spoken language instead of Latin.

15. Humanism
The characters look like real people with individual differences, muscle tone. You can see their “humanity”.

16. Humanism
In Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper each figure is distinguishable.

17. Humanism
Celebrated the accomplishments of man and looked for inspiration to the ancient Greek and Roman thinkers.
Humanists believed that human reason and logic were as important in understanding the world as religion and intuition

18. Renaissance Trade: Classicism: Individualism: Questioning Humanism:
Created a wealthy class
who became patrons
of the arts.
Classicism:
Revival of Greek & Roman
achievements & writings.
Individualism:
Emphasis on the importance
of the individual and achievements.
Questioning
Spirit
Humanism:
Glorification of people
& human reason.
Renaissance
Secularism:
Other than religion.
Intellectual &
Artistic Creativity