1. Quote of the Day
I've already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy (or anywhere else where the stagnant water's poison). My stomach's squashed under my chin, my beard's pointing at heaven, my brain's crushed in a casket, my breast twists like a harpy's. My brush, above me all the time, dribbles paint so my face makes a fine floor for droppings!

2. Renaissance
Rebirth

3. Beginnings Europe survives war and plague
Celebrate living
Tried to revive the past and ended up creating something new

4. Why Italy? Starts in Northern Italy…Why? City-States
Very urban
Exchange of ideas etc.
Merchants and Medici
Medici (Bankers) ruled Florence
Cosimo de Medici
Financed artists
Greece and Rome
Proximity
Ancient manuscripts and style

5. New Styles Humanism Secular concerns Renaissance men and women
Human potential and achievement
“Humanities”
Secular concerns
Think about the worldlyl
Enjoy life
Renaissance men and women
Master every subject

6. Art
Perspective- 3D
Lines draw together at the vanishing point
Painted real people and spiritual in realistic style

7. Leonardo da Vinci

8. Raphael School of Athens

9. Michelangelo

11. The Sistine Chapel

13. Literature Wrote in native language instead of latin
Vernacular
Wrote for self-expression and portray individuals
Machiavelli in The Prince
Boccaccio in The Decameron
Illustrates human condition
Both tragic and comic