1. Aim: How did the Renaissance shape European art, thought and religion?
Do Now: Medieval Art Analysis
What aspects of Medieval art can you identify in the picture on the next slide?

2. Do Now: What aspects of Medieval art can you identify in the picture?

3. What was the Renaissance?
Renaissance – “rebirth”
Time of creativity and great change in many areas – political, economic, social, and cultural.
Reawakened interest in classical learning
Explored richness and variety of human experience
Wide-ranging curiosity

4. Expressing Humanism
During the Renaissance, TWO forms of thought became popular.
Humanism – the belief that human ideas, actions and works are important. The importance and uniqueness of man.
Emphasized the humanities
Francesco Petrarch
Secularism – non-religious viewpoint. Secularists look to scientific thinking for answers as opposed to religion.
Petrarch 1300s – renaissance humanist, poet, and scholar. Assembled a library of greek and roman manuscripts in monasteries and churches. His example enabled the works of cicero, homer and virgil

5. Italy: Cradle of the Renaissance
Italian beginnings =
Italy had a great location for trade.
It was king of the Mediterranean Sea.
It controlled European trade with Asia.
EXTREMELY WEALTHY – patron (financial supporter of the arts)
Florence, Genoa, Venice

6. Renaissance Art
Renaissance attained its most glorious expression in its paintings, sculptures and architecture.
Reflects humanist thought
Artists DON’T abandon religious themes!
New artistic techniques
perspective
“social art”
Blend beauty with utility
Filippo Brunelleschi
Perspective – makes distant objects smaller than those close to the viewer, allows 3d scenes and realistic art
Duomo

7. Renaissance Art The Italian “Trifecta” Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo Raphael

8. Mona Lisa’s?

9. Writing for a New Society
Italian writers reflected the trademark Renaissance curiosity and interest in the humanities.
Baldassare Castiglione
The Book of the Courtier – describes the manners, skills, learning and virtues a member of the court should have
NiccolÒ Machiavelli
The Prince – a guide for rulers on how to gain and maintain power.

10. Italian Renaissance Analysis
Group Work
Italian Renaissance Analysis

11. LEONARDO DA VINCI

12. Raphael

13. Michelangelo

14. Donatello

16. Exit – What is so important about the Italian Renaissance?

17. AIM: How did the Renaissance develop in northern Europe?
Do Now: Products and goods are easier to do (a la cultural diffusion), however, how do you spread ideas?

18. Northern Renaissance Artists
Began in Flanders -> spread to Spain, France, Germany & England
Flemish Painters – Jan van Eyck, Peter Bruegel, Peter Paul Rubens
Albrecht Durer – German Painter “Leonardo of the North”
Profoundly affected by Renaissance Italy
Engraving
What themes did Northern Renaissance artists explore?

19. The Printing Revolution
1455 – Johann Gutenberg of Germany, printed the first complete edition of the Bible using a printing press with movable type.
What was the impact of the printing press?

20. Northern Humanists and Writers
Vernacular – everyday language of ordinary people
Appealed to a new, middle class audience who lived in northern towns and cities

21. Northern Humanists and Writers
Desiderius Erasmus – Dutch priest and humanist
Wrote texts on number of subjects
Produced new Greek edition of the Bible
Helped spread Renaissance humanism to a wider publice

22. Northern Humanists and Writers
Francois Rabelais – French humanist, monk, physician, Greek scholar and author
Gargantua and Pantagruel – comic tale of travel & war but used to offer opinions of religion, education and other serious subjects

23. Northern Humanists and Writers
William Shakespeare – English poet and playwright
, he wrote 37 plays
Shakespeare’s genius was in expressing universal themes in everyday, realistic settings
What Renaissance ideas did Shakespeare’s work address?

24. Activator
What does the image below make you think of? How would you describe it? What would you call it? Explain your responses in paragraph form.

25. Northern Humanists and Writers
Sir Thomas More – English Humanist
Pressed for social reform
Utopia – an ideal society in which men and women live in peace and harmony

26. Definition, Concepts, and Varieties
Utopia
Definition, Concepts, and Varieties

27. Utopia: A Definition
An ideally perfect place, an impractical idealistic scheme.
The word “utopia” comes from two Greek words: “oi” (not) and “topos” (place) = “nowhere.”
The word was created by Sir Thomas More in 1516 when he wrote a book by that title.

28. Utopian Concepts Poverty and misery are removed.
Very few laws are necessary.
Money is unnecessary.
The society is free of class systems, meaning the equality of all people.
View on the future is optimistic and upbeat.

29. Religious and Scientific Concepts
The Judeo-Christian concept of the Garden of Eden and Heaven.
The Buddhist concept of Nirvana.
Advanced science and technology will abolish suffering and death.

30. Utopia Varieties
Ecological Utopia: a traditional way of life that is more in harmony with nature.
Economic Utopia: the total abolition of money; only working on what one enjoys and on what is for the common good.
Political Utopia: world peace—without war; everyone gets along regardless of race, culture, and political beliefs.
Religious Utopia: harmonious relationships and enlightenment.
Science and Technology Utopia: set in the future; absence of death and suffering.

31. Exit:
Discussion: Overall, what is your opinion of the society depicted in More’s Utopia? What aspects do you find satisfactory, and which do you think should be revised or removed? Explain. Assignment: Write a diary entry or song detailing your own version of Utopia.