The Renaissance
Medieval Times
What do you remember?
The
Renaissance
•The rebirth of
learning, art, &
literature
•Focused on the
“Classics”
(Works from
Greece & Rome)
•Started in Italy
and spread north
into Europe.
Raphael’s The School of Athens
Plato
and
Aristotle
Geography, Euclidian geometry (Euclid), etc.
Italy’s Wealth
•Money to
support patrons
1. Industry:
cloth from
Florence, arms
from Milan
2. Trade: with
Muslim
empires
(Venice)
Leonardo da
Vinci
•Artist & inventor
•Mona Lisa
•The Last
Supper (Fresco)
da Vinci’s inventions
Michelangelo
•The David
•The ceiling of
the Sistine
Chapel & The
Creation of
Adam
The
Creation of
Adam
Italian
Renaissance
Subject matter:
Classical
mythology,
religious scenes
Style:
Symmetrical,
balanced, linear
perspective
Known for:
Figures w/mass
and volume,
knowledge of
anatomy
Media:
Fresco, tempura,
oil
Example:
Michaelangelo’s
Creation of Adam
on the Sistine
Chapel
Northern
Renaissance
Subject matter:
Domestic
interiors,
portraits,
religious scenes
Style:
Attention to
surface detail,
naturalism
Known for:
Minute surface
detail
Media:
Oil on panel
Example:
Jan van Eyck’s
Arnolfini Wedding
Portrait
Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus
Jan van Eyck
Johannes
Gutenberg
•Invented the
moveable
type printing
press.
•Voted most
important
person of the
millennium.
Why?
William
Shakespeare
•English
playwright
•Sonnets
(poems)
•Wrote in the
vernacular
(every day
language)
Humanism
•A system of
values and beliefs
that is based on
the idea that
people are
basically good and
that problems can
be solved using
reason instead of
religion
•Secular (worldly)
Desiderius
Erasmus
Humanism
Before
Medieval scholars
focused on the
Bible
During
After
People focused on Laid the foundation
the world around
for original
them (secularism) thoughts
People took info
Focused on human Helped lead to the
from the Church as potential
Scientific
fact
Revolution and
Enlightenment
Focus on religion
and the afterlife
Focused on human
thinking and
abilities
TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING
RELIGIOUS STATEMENT INTO A
SECULAR ONE:
The most important thing in this
world is GOD. One should focus
their lives around one thing...
RELIGION. Everyone should be
constantly thinking HEAVEN. The
number one focus of all study
should THE BIBLE. THE BIBLE is
the most important subject in
school. One should dress very
PLAINLY and live in MODEST