1. RENAISSANCE IN EUROPE REBIRTH OF IDEAS
REBIRTH OF SPIRIT OF SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY
REBIRTH OF SPIRIT OF HUMANISM
14TH -16TH CENTURIES

2. FACTORS OF RENAISSANCE
CAPTURE OF CONSTSNTINOPLE
INFLUENCE OF GREEK SCHOLARS
TRADE CONTACTS
ROLR OF VENICE, GEOA, FLORENCE
WEAKNESS OF THE CHURC
NATIVE ASSOCIATION WITH IMMIGRANT SCOLARS
INVENTION OF PRINTING PRESS
CLASSICAL REVIVALISM
CONCEPT OF HUMANISM
SPREAD OF NE LEARNING

3. FEATURES OF RENAISSANCE
LITERATURE
ITALY
DANTE: DIVINE COMEDIA
PETRARCH: LOVE SONNETS : SONNETS TO LAURA
BOCCACCIO: LOVE STORIES: DA CAMERON
NICOLO MACHIAVALLI: THE PRINCE
ENGLAND
GEOFFREY CHAUCER: CANTERBURY TALES
TOMAS MORE: UTOPIA (IDEAL STATE)
FRANCIS BACON: ESSAYS
EDMUND SPENCER: FAERIE QUEENE

4. FEATURES OF RENAISSANCE
ENGLAND
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: DOCTOR FAUSTUS
BEN JOHNSON: VOLPONE (DRAMA)
WILLIAM SHAESPEARE: PLAYS (TRAGEDIES AN COMMEDIES
JOHN MILTON: PARADISE LOST, PARADISE REGAINED
FRANCE
MONTAIGNE: ESSAYS
FRANCOIS REBELAIS: GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL
JOHN CALVIN: WRITINGS
SPAIN
CERVANTES: DON QUIXOTE
LOPE DE VEGA: CALDERON (DRAMA)

5. FEATURES OF RENAISSANCE
HOLLAND
DESILERIUS ERASMUS: IN PRAISE OF FOLLY
GERMANY
MARTIN LUTHER: HOLY BIBLE IN GERMAN
ART
Florentine school (Florence)
Leonardo da vinci: oil painting:
monalisa : last supper
Michelangelo: Sistine chapel celing:
last judgment
Raphael sanzio: Madonnas: Sistine Madonna

6. FEATURES OF RENAISSANCE
VENETIAN SCHOOL (VENICE)
TITIAN: MORETHAN 700 PAINTINGS: REALISTIC PORTRAIT PAINTINGS: POPES, MERCHANTS, NOBLES, LADIES
FLEMISH SCHOOL (FLANDERS IN HOLLAND)
JAN: OIL PAINTING: ANNUNCIATION
Hubert van eyck
petre paul Rubens: the descent from the cross
van dyck: portrait of kings
german school
Matthias Grunewald: the iseuheim altarpiece
albert durer: four apostles, adoration of the magi, portrait of erasmus

7. FEATURES OF RENAISSANCE
lucas Cranach
hans hobein: portrait of Erasmus: the virgin and the child
Sculpture
classical tradition
Lorenzo Ghiberti: magnificient doors for baptistery at Florence
Donatello: statue of st. George of Florence
lucadella robbia: glazed terracotta figurines
Lorenzo de medici: garden with sculptural works
Michelangelo: statues of moses and david, pieta
Architecture
rejected gothic
imitated classical architecture of greeks and romans
round arche, tall columns and big dome
st.peter’s church in rome 400 feet: people
st. mark’s church in venice: st. Paul’s church in London
publicbuildings and palaces

8. FEATURES OF RENAISSANCE
Music
church music
humanism: vocal, instrumental, orchestral
drama to music (opera)