The Renaissance

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The Renaissance

• The European World

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What is the Renaissance?

• a rebirth of art and learning that began in
  northern Italy around 1300 and later spread north

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Italys Advantages

• Urban Centers
• cities are often places where people exchange new
  ideas
• an ideal breeding ground for an intellectual
  revolution

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Italys Advantages

• Classical Heritage
• Italian artists and scholars drew inspiration
  from the ruins of Rome that surrounded them

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Italys Advantages

• The Medici Family
• Florence came under the rule of the powerful
  Medici family, who made a fortune in trade and
  banking

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Italys Advantages

• Merchants
• believed they deserved power and wealth because
  of their individual merit and achievement

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The Renaissance Man

• the ideal individual strove to master almost
  every area of study
• a man who excelled in many fields was praised as
  a universal man

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The Renaissance Women

• upper-class women knew the classics
• expected to inspire art, but rarely create it

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What is Humanism?

• focused on human potential and achievements

• understand ancient
• Greek values

• popularized the
• study of subjects common to classical education
• history
• literature
• philosophy

• influenced artists and architects to carry on
  classical traditions