Introduction to the Renaissance

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Introduction to the Renaissance

• What is the Renaissance?

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What is the Renaissance?

• A time of rebirth centered in Italy
• Focus on the Classics ancient Greece and
  Rome art, literature, science, philosophy,
  civic responsibility

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What is the Renaissance?

• 2) A time of transition from medieval --to
  modern

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What is the Renaissance?

• 3) A time of powerful families Medicis

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What is the Renaissance?

• 4) A time of great architects

San Lorenzo Florence - Brunelleschi
Il duomo Florence - Brunelleschi
Ghiberti Baptistry doors
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What is the Renaissance?

• 5) A time of great artists

Michelangelo
Leonardo
Fra Angelico
Mosaccio
Donatello
Raphael
Giotto
Della Robbia
Paolo Uccello
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What is the Renaissance?

• 6) A time of new ideas

Machiavelli
A prince should have no other aim, and no other
thought than war and its methods and practices.
Thomas More
Castiglione
Erasmus
I die the kings good servant, but Gods first.
The Courtier (Description of the true Renaissance
man)
I brought it about that humanism, which among
the Italians. . . Savored of nothing but pure
paganism, began nobly to celebrate Christ.
Shakespeare
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What is the Renaissance?

• 7) A time of great religious change

Meister Eckhard
Martin Luther
Calvin
Erasmus von Rotterdam
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What is the Renaissance?

• 8) A time of new inventions

Johann Gutenburg
Observation is everything
Start with what you can see and learn from what
you discover.
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What is the Renaissance?

• 9) A time of science and exploration

Henry the Navigator
Copernicuss Universe
Columbus
Magellan
Galileo Galilei Telescope
Astrolabe