The Splendid Reminiscence of the Renaissance 1350-1600

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The Splendid Reminiscence of the
Renaissance1350-1600
Dome for Cathedral of Florence
Renaissance Architecture

• By
• Authors omitted

Mona Lisa
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The Intuitive Italian Renaissance
By Nevena

• Humanism
• Movement that emphasized secular concerns as a
  result of the rediscovery and study of the
  literature, art, and civilization of ancient
  Greece and Rome

3 MAIN CITIES- FLORENCE ROME VENICE
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EDUCATION and SOCIAL STRUCTURE

• Education/Literature
• Schools taught study of humanity
• Francesco Petrarca
• 366 sonnets
• Niccolo Machiavellie
• The Prince- politics of Italy

• Social Groups-
• Wealthy merchants/bankers
• Shopkeepers/Artisans
• Workers/Peasants
• Government-
• Independent city states
• Signori-powerful political leaders

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Fabulous Florence
birthplace of Italian Renaissance
Cosimo deMedici

• Cosimo deMedici
• Income tax on Wealthy
• City improvements-sewers, paved streets
• Peaceful Relations

Lorenzo deMedici

• Lorenzo deMedici-Grandson
• Support artists/philosophers/writers ?
• sponsor public festivals
• The Magnificent

• Girolamo Savonarola
• Fiery Sermons against Medici Family
• Strict Regulations!
• Criticism of Church Officials led to downfall

Girolamo Savonarola
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Robust Rome

• Popes rebuilt city
• Churches/palaces/paintings/sculptures
• St. Peters Basilica-largest Christian church
• Vatican Library

Vatican Library

• Popes Roles
• Signori
• Overlooked religious duties to handle political
  affairs
• Relied on political ambassadors
• Direct negotiations between city-states
• Collected Taxes!
• Beautiful Architecture and arts

Vatican Library
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St. Peters Basilica
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Vivacious Venice
Milan
Venice at its peak

• Link Between West Europe and Asia? TRADE
• Adriatic Sea to Milan
• Republic Government
• Doge (duke)
• Council of Ten
• Wealthiest Merchants
• Passed laws, elected doge, consulted for Doge
  marriage
• Taxes!
• Shipyards
• Printing Houses
• Paintings
• Became jewel of Renaissance

Adriatic
View of Venice
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The New and UpcomingNorthern Renaissance
By Gary and Nevena
War, trade, travel, and Johannes Gutenbergs
invention of the printing press in 1440 helped to
spread the idea of the Italian Renaissance to the
rest of Europe.
Johannes Gutenberg
Printing Press
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The Fantastic French Renaissance
Blend of Medieval and Classical Ideas

• Architecture- blended medieval gothic towers and
  windows with classical columns.
• chateaux (castle)
• Loire River valley
• Piérre Ronsard-inspired by Petrarch
• Sonnets (Love, Passing of youth, Poets
  immortality)
• Michel de Montaigne
• Personal essay
• François Rabelais
• Most popular Renaissance author- comic tales,
  satires, and parodies
• Enjoy their life to the fullest.
• Law, medicine, politics, theology, botany, and
  navigation

French Architecture
François Rabelais
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The Nice Northern European Renaissance
Very Religiously Driven

• Northern Europe accepted Germany and Low
  Countries

• Languages-
• Latin- still main scholarly language
• German/Dutch- used by writers
• Christian Humanism
• Wanted reforms in Catholic Church
• restore simple piety
• Humanist and Bible study
• Desiderius Erasmus-critical view of church
• The Praise of Folly
• Attacked motives of Popes
• Painters-(more medieval)
• Jan and Hubert van Eyck
• Scenes from the Bible
• Realistic details with oils
• Pieter Brueghel
• Combined Italian Techniques w/ artistic
  traditions of homeland
• Realistic portraits, landscapes, and scenes of
  peasant life

Desiderius Erasmus
Pieter Brueghel
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The Elegiac English Renaissance

• Wars of Roses- 1485
• Tudor Family defeated the York Family
• Henry VII of the Tudor family takes throne
• Invites Italian artists
• English humanists were very interested in social
  issues.
• Sir Thomas More
• Utopia
• Compared his society with ideal society where all
  citizens are prosperous
• Drama (best playwrights)
• Drew ideas from medieval legend, mythology,
  history
• William Shakespeare
• Universal human qualities jealousy, ambition,
  love, and despair
• Christopher Marlowe
• Blank verse, overreaching protagonist

Sir Thomas More
Shakespeare
Marlowe
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The Artistic Achievements of the Renaissance
By Nevena
SWITCHED TO DURING THE RENAISSANCE
BEFORE RENAISSANCE

1. Artists used Symbolic representations of their
   subjects
2. Extremely Religious Art
3. Gothic Arches and Peaks were primary architecture
   
4. Human Sculptures were represented as stiff,
   stylized manner
5. Flat Symbolic Paintings

1. Artists depicted subjects as lifelike and
   captivating
2. Art in general was more secular with worldly
   overtones
3. Curved Domes and Columns from classical time
   period were the primary architecture
4. Human Sculptures were often nude and sculptured
   in bronze/marble that resembled the exact
   proportions of human body
5. Realistic Paintings

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MEDIEVAL STYLE
RENAISSANCE STYLE
Sculpture
Painting
Sculpture
Architecture
Architecture
Bronze Work
Painting
Painting
Architecture
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Astounding Architecture

• Dome and Columns instead of Medieval arches and
  spires
• Interior Decorating
• Renaissance Architects were accredited

Dome for Cathedral of Florence

• Filippo Brunelleschi
• Dome for Cathedral of Florence
• (greatest engineering feat)

FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI
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Sculpture

• Nude made of bronze/marble
• Donatello- 1st sculpted a statue in bronze
• Lorenzo Ghiberti-New Testament Scenes on Florence
  cathedral doors
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• Craftmanship from Florence
• Large emotional Sculptures
• La Pietà
• Renowned Painter

Donatellos bronze work
New Testament Scenes
La Pietà
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Paintings
Last Supper

• Giotto
• First captured human emotions in portraying
  Francis of Assisi
• Masaccio
• Lighting and Perspective in his paintings for
  depth
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Mona Lisa
• The Last Supper
• Scientist
• Parachutes, flying machines, mechanical diggers,
  and artillery
• Michelangelo Buonarroti
• 1505 -hired to paint Sistine Chapel
• All his painted figures resembled sculptures
• Designed St. Peters Basilica dome

Mona Lisa
Sistine Chapel
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Citation

• Farah, Mounir A. World History The Human
  Experience. New York, New York Glencoe
  McGraw-Hill, 1997. 4 Mar. 2007
• Wikipedia, n.d. 4 Mar. 2007 http//en.wikipedia.or
  g/wiki/Christoph er_Marlowe.