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2 Renaissance Themes Italian Northern Ideal beauty
Religious and mythology scenes Intense realism Religious and domestic scenes

3 (Early) Italian Renaissance Style, a generalized approach, bust and no hands (Alesso Baldovinetti)
Northern Renaissance Style, attention to detail, landscape in background (Jean Hey)

4 How the Renaissance Changed Society
AFTER THE PLAGUE… If the church can’t protect us, can we make our own lives better?

5 ERASMUS DUTCH WRITER PRAISE OF FOLLY
SATIRIZED SOCIAL EVILS (LIKE PREJUDICE & CHURCH ABUSE) TO ENCOURAGE REFORM

6 SIR THOMAS MORE ENGLISH UTOPIA
PORTRAYED THE PERFECT SOCIETY, FREE OF WAR, INJUSTICE, POVERTY, AND IGNORANCE

7 RABELAIS FRENCH GARGANTUA SATIRIZED EDUCATION, POLITICS & PHILOSOPHY
WE SHOULD LIVE BY INSTINCTS NOT RULES

8 MACHIAVELLI FLORENTINE THE PRINCE WROTE ABOUT POLITICS & POWER
THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS

9 SHAKESPEARE ENGLISH HAMLET, MACBETH
DEPICTED HISTORY THROUGH POEMS & PLAYS “TO BE OR NOT TO BE…”

10 JOHANN GUTENBERG GERMAN INVENTED THE PRINTING PRESS
CREATED THE GUTENBERG BIBLE PRINTED IN LATIN

11 IMPACT OF THE PRINTING PRESS
PRICE OF BOOKS DROPPED NEW IDEAS SPREAD QUICKLY BIBLE LATER PRINTED IN VERNACULAR RISE OF LITERACY PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THEIR RELIGION BETTER PEOPLE BEGAN TO OPENLY QUESTION THE PRACTICES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

12 ACTIVITY: IN GROUPS OF THREE:
IDENTIFY 3 CHARACTERISTICS OF A “PERFECT SOCIETY” IDENTIFY A SOCIAL VICE THAT PREVENTS SUCH A SOCIETY TODAY CREATE A 3 PERSON / 2-3 MINUTE SKIT FOCUSING ON A SOCIAL VICE TO “SHAME” THE AUDIENCE INTO CHANGING THEIR BEHAVIOR.


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