Renaissance

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Renaissance
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Vocab must know words

• Renaissance
• Quattrocento
• Artisan
• Vertu
• Humanism
• Perspective
• Book of the Courtier
• Rhetoric
• city-states

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How was it born (re-born)?

• Contemporary use of Renaissance
• Italian towns foster secularism, individualism,
  consumerism and art
• City-states independent, absence of pope (at
  Avignon) merchant oligarchies
• Florence
• Medici
• Appreciation of powers of man
• Validation of man in Cicero, etc
• Virtu Roman concept of manliness, excellence in
  all

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Arts

• New artistic forms three dimensional space,
  realistic images, classical themes
• Architecture secular buildings, roman forms,
  BRUNELLESCHI
• Sculpture free standing, classical models,
  mythology
• Donatello

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Painting

• Used mathematics of perspective to achieve
  three-dimensionality
• Religious subjects/but new
• Individual portraiture reflects nature of subject

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literature

• Humanism human letter
• Life work
• Some women
• Latin
• Cult of the ancients
• Vernacular Italian
• Petrarch
• Boccaccio

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Education

• Humanists education for life well rounded,
  morally committed

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Marriage

• Men in 30s women in late teens
• Women in domestic sphere, civilizing influence

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Politics!!

• City states not unified
• Often at war
• Republican gov. gives way to oligarchy(p68)
• Machiavelli called for Italian unity
• Italian states vulnerable to new emerging
  nation-states (France Italy 1494, Spain Rome
  1527)