1. The Renaissance

2. Agenda Bell Ringer: What is the impact of the Black Death on Europe? Lecture, The Renaissance Image Analysis, famous Renaissance Painters Machiavelli Analysis Was the Renaissance relevant? Video Impact of Technology Discussion HW: Begin next set of focus questions. Read the sections on the Renaissance in Chapter 13, All of Chapter 15.

3. Renaissance A “rebirth” of art and learning. Black Death ruins economic growth. Medici family controls Florence through wealth. –Part of the merchant class. Renaissance focuses on learning Greek and Roman traditions. (Powerful Empires) Focuses on human potential and achievement. Focuses on Greco-Roman values instead of Christian teachings. “Humanities”

4. Humanism Focuses on human potential and achievement. Focuses on Greco-Roman values instead of Christian teachings. “Humanities” Petrarch –Created a library of Roman and Greek Manuscripts. –He aided in getting Greek and Roman names out to the public.

5. Machiavelli and the Renaissance Wrote “The Prince” in 1513. The handbook on how to control a country. Two perspectives, –a way to give rulers an upper hand. –A way to provide peasants with a guide to ruling families.

6. Northern Renaissance Writings Erasmus is known for creating a New Testament and placing it in the vernacular. –The Praise of Folly Sir Thomas More –Wrote Utopia –An ideal society where men and women live in harmony. Shakespeare –Begins writing in the 1580s, also wrote in vernacular.

7. Gutenberg and the Printing Press 1456, Gutenberg invents the printing press. Created the complete edition of the bible, and it went on to sell 20 million copies. Many learn to read. Expanded intellectualism.

8. Artists of the Renaissance Michelangelo –Statue of David (Stone) –Painting the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

9. Artists of the Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci –Born 1452, a genius. –Paintings were realistic, a departure from Medieval works. –Mona Lisa, The Last Supper

10. Artists of the Renaissance Donatello –Credited with “David” (but a bronze one completed 40 years before Michelangelo’s.

11. Artists of the Renaissance Raphael –Paintings represented an “ideal beauty”, Madonnas –School of Athens