10th Euro Studies 9.18.14

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10th Euro Studies 9.18.14

• Turn in
• Guided notes on The Black Death with Reflection
• Take out
• Planner
• Pen/pencil
• 3 column chart we started during the Middle Ages
• Todays objective
• I can describe how the time period following the
  Middle Ages began to take shape and lay the
  foundation for a modern world.

• Todays Agenda
• Talking about whats next
• HW
• Read 13.1 up to 2nd Checkpoint Question Why was
  Italy a favorable setting for the Renaissance?

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Why Renaissance? Why Florence?

• Vocab Words (Vernacular)
• Classical Ancient Greece and Rome
• Civic Humanism Active, ethical, and patriotic
  service to the city-state
• Patron Someone who pays for art to be created

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What Was the Renaissance??

• Period after Middle Ages (1350-1550)
• Rebirth of knowledge and culture
• Emphasis on Ancient Greece and Rome (Classical)
• Shown through art
• Beginning of the modern world

Apollo Belvedere Greek sculpture, 325 B.C.
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When and Where?

• 1350-1550 in Italy Geography is Destiny
• Lots of big city-states
• Competition
• Lots of
• Bankers and Merchants
• Vatican Home of Catholic Church
• Papal States
• Classical Times Roman Ruins

Constantines Arch, 315 AD (Rome)
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Italian City-States Control Trade

• Milan Controlled trade through the Alps
• Metal Goods/Armor
• Sforza Family
• Venice Controlled Adriatic Sea trade
• Crusades
• Silk, Spices
• Genoa Access to N. European trade routes
• Ivory/Gold
• Florence Banking Center
• Textiles and Banking
• Medici Family

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Cosimo The Elder

• Cosimo de Medici (1434-1484)
• Controlled largest bank in Europe
• Gods Banker Papal Accounts
• Ruled through Patronage Financial
• aid and support of others
• Political Patronage
• Patron of the arts
• VERY interested in using to support art and
  education
• Florence becomes cultural center of Europe

Cosimo de Medici
Medici Coat of Arms
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Renaissance Patronage

• How did patronage lead to the first works of
  Renaissance Art in Florence?
• Il Duomo
• The Dome
• Gates of Paradise
• Giottos Tower
• Baptistry

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Cosimos Greatest Challenge

• Il Duomo (The Dome)
• Domeless since the 13th Century
• Felippo Brunelleschi commissioned (hired) to
  build a dome
• Must study ancient Roman domes

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Secrets Unlocked

• Brunelleschi reinvents/rediscovers recipe for
  concrete
• Designs
• double dome
• structure

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Baptistery Doors

• Lorenzo Ghiberti commissioned to create panels
  for Baptistery (1401)
• Defeats Brunelleschi
• 28 Panels from New Testament
• 21 years to finish

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The Gates of Paradise, 1425
"undeniably perfect in every way and must rank as
the finest masterpiece ever created. Georgio
Vasari
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Renaissance Values

• The 4 Isms shown through art
• Classicism
• Humanism
• Individualism
• Secularism
• 5th Realism
• ...Quantification

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Classicism
-Greek/Roman Influence -Symmetry/Balance -Nudes
-Active/Motion -Lack of Emotion
Contraposto
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Classical Art Characteristics

• 500 BC 500 CE
• Balance and Harmony
• Lifelike but idealized (Large Humans)
• Nude or with togas
• Active/motion
• Without emotion
• Little sense of perspective in background