1. Ideas & Art of the Renaissance
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Ideas & Art of the Renaissance

2. Humanism
Study of the classics, the literary works ancient Greece & Rome.
Humanist studied: grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history
Petrarch, Called the father of Italian Renaissance Humanism, began emphasis on using pure classic Latin
Humanist believed:
Duty to life active civic life
Put study of humanities to state’s service

3. Vernacular : (language spoken in their regions)
Dante and Chaucer helped make vernacular literature more popular with their masterpieces Divine Comedy and the Canterbury Tales
Christine de Pizan: Frenchwoman known for her written works to defend women’s education

4. Renaissance Education
Humanists believed education could dramatically change human beings
They wrote books and opened schools based on their ideas
Focused education on liberal studies:
History, moral philosophy, eloquence, grammar/logic
Poetry, mathematics, astronomy, and Music
Wanted to produce individuals who followed wisdom and virtue
Also focused on physical education: Javelin throwing, archery and dancing

5. Renaissance Education
Females are absent from humanist schools
Any who did attend only taught: some history, riding, dance, sing, play the lute and appreciate poetry
Also taught religion and morals for the creation of Christian ladies and good wives and mothers
Not to learn math or rhetoric

6. Italian Renaissance Art
Artist sought to imitate nature
Frescos by Masaccio are first masterpieces of Early Renaissance
Fresco: is painting done on fresh, wet plaster wit water- based paints, gave depth, and figures came to life
Two major developments took place
Technical side of painting, focusing perspective space and light, through geometry
Investigation of movement and human anatomy (portray the individual)

7. Leo da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
Mastered realistic painting
Italy’s best painter
Known for virgin Mary painting
Accomplished painter, sculptor and architect
Created idealized forms that captured the perfection of nature and the individual
Known for his frescos in Vatican Palace
Painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel
Depicted the ideal type of human being with perfect proportions

8. Northern Artistic Renaissance
Jan van Eyck first to perfect the technique of oil painting
With his oil paints he created striking realism
Albrecht Durer- went to Italy twice and learned about the laws of perspective
He blended the northern artist styles with the Italian artists theories, with carful examination of the human form