2. The Renaissance: An Overview

3. When and Where? Mostly in Italy But also Europe as a whole
Around

4. Beginnings Europe coming out of Middle Ages (476 BCE-1300s)
Humanism starts to take off
Invention of the printing press helps to spread ideas
Advances in finance and trade worldwide
NOT just art
Was a time of great intellectual achievements

5. Johannes Gutenberg

6. Medici Family and Patronage
Medicis: ruling family of Florence, Italy
Patronage: financial backing for artists from wealthy people
Movement spreads out from Florence into the rest of Italy
Milan/Venice/Rome ect.
Moves to France, then the rest of Europe

8. Main Ideas: Art, Architecture and Science
These fields were woven together throughout the period
Scale in paintings
Mathematics crucial to architecture
Engagement in exploration
Move towards questioning the role of religion

9. (Some) Notable People Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael
William Shakespeare
Dante
Machiavelli
Geoffrey Chaucer
Galileo
Thomas Hobbes
Rene Descartes
Nicolaus Copernicus

10. End of the Renaissance Plague wipes out Europe
Italy invaded by other European powers
Trade routes change, economy declines
Counter-Reformation and Roman Inquisition