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The Renaissance in Italy

• Renaissance Rebirth

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The Renaissance 1300-1500

• The period after the Middle Ages/Dark Ages and
  before modern history
• At the end of the Black Death (plague)
• A time of great art and great thinkers

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• It marked a shift from an agricultural to a urban
  society
• Trade was of greater importance
• (Italian gown shown here)

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The Renaissance Began in Italy and Later Spread

• Italy is where the Roman Empire existed, so
  architecture other artifacts were present.
• The Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church, was
  also in Italy
• Geographic location was great for trade to the
  North, South and East

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Renaissance Art

• Used religious figures, but against classical
  backgrounds
• Artists returned to the realism of classical
  times using perspective

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Medieval Portrayals of the Madonna
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Renaissance Portrayal of the Madonna
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Leonardo da Vinci

• Artist, Scientist, all around Renaissance Man.
• -The Mona Lisa
• -The Last Supper
• -The Vitruvian Man
• -Self portrait
• BTW He also robbed graves.

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The Brilliance of Leonardo

• Out of 17 half brothers and sisters, Leonardo was
  recognized as unusual as a child.
• Apprenticed to a painter by 15.

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The Brilliance of Leonardo

• Developed interest in science and technology.
• Tried to invent rockets, bridges, flying
  machines, parachutes, fire trucks with extendable
  ladders, etc.
• May have also invented the telescope?
• Was a lefty!

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BTW

• Leonardo and the next Renaissance Man absolutely
  HATED one another!!!
• Both are what we call Renaissance Men
• Able to do more than one thing quite well!

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Michelangelo

• Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
• And we wonder why we just call him
  Michelangelo?
• Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect,
  poet, and engineer.

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Michelangelo

• La Pieta in the Sistine Chapel in Rome.

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David
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The Divine Spark
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Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Raphael

• The School of Athens
• Portrayal of the Madonna, mother of Jesus.

Self-portrait by Raphael, missing since World War
II
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were all named after
  the famous artists of the Renaissance.
• Master Splinter and Super Shredder were not.

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Renaissance Writings

• Wrote of philosophy and scholarship
• Developed guidebooks for success
• Machiavelli wrote a guide for rulers on how to
  gain and maintain power
• He urged rulers to use whatever methods necessary
  to achieve their goal

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Machiavelli

• The end justifies the means.
• He has a Machiavellian mind.
• NOT a compliment!

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THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH the late start!

• Northern Europe began the Renaissance nearly 100
  years after Italy because they still suffered
  from the Black Death and had not experienced the
  same economic growth -- until the 1400s!

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Where it began in the North

• The Northern Renaissance began in a region called
  Flanders where there were lots of prosperous
  cities. (Present-day France, Belgium and
  Netherlands.
• It then spread into the remainder of France,
  Spain, Germany and England.

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The Printing Revolution

• 1455, John Gutenberg of Germany invented a
  printing press with movable type
• Why was this a BIG DEAL?

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The Gutenberg Bible
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Ned Flanders
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Northern Humanists and Writers

• Those in the North also stressed education and
  the classics.
• Writing had been in Latin -- began writing in
  everyday language (the vernacular)
• What affect would this have?

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Erasmus

• A Priest and Humanist
• Used knowledge of languages and produced a new
  edition of the Bible
• He called for a translation of the Bible into the
  vernacular
• Why was this a big deal?

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Shakespeare

• English poet and playwright
• Incorporated Renaissance ideals into a language
  the people could understand
• Introduced more than 1700 new words

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Shakespeare Insults

• You vomitous mass
• You crusty botch of nature!
• I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.