CHAPTER 7: THE
RENAISSANCE PROJECT
By Jeniffer Rivera, Kaelyn Williams and Jessica Kaizerman
PART 1: THE ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE
THE ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE
The Italian Renaissance of the
city-states brought a rebirth
earning and art to Europe.
From the years 1350 to 1550 in
European history are called
Renaissance, because there was
a “rebirth” of interest of art
and learning.
T H E I TA L I A N R E N A I S S A N C E
 In the Renaissance, people
became more “secular”. Secular
means that they were more
interested in this world than
religion or getting to heaven.
THE ITALIAN
RENAISSANCE
There are three reasons of why
the Renaissance began in Italy.
The first reason is that Italy’s
city-states had become really
wealthy. The second reason is
that Italy had a lot of history
about their ancestors (romans).
The third reason is that had the
money to pay for their workers.
T H E I TA L I A N R E N A I S S A N C E
 When the Renaissance was
beginning the city-states were
really powerful, which is why
people paid for the art.
PART 2: THE RISE OF
ITALY'S CITY-STATES
THE RISE OF ITALY'S
CITY-STATES
Since no ruler was strong
enough to unite Italy, the
country divided by itself. The
cities became self dependent
and fought with each-other,
and stayed. Later every citystate of Italy became really
wealth and rich.
T H E R I S E O F I TA LY ' S C I T Y- S TAT E S
 Because the city-states were
wealth the king from other
countries
left
the
city-states
alone so they could borrow
more money in the future.
THE RISE OF ITALY'S
CITY-STATES
The city-states obtained all
their wealth through the
business of trading. They
also succeed because Italy
was located were most of the
trade routes were located.
T H E R I S E O F I TA LY ' S C I T Y- S TAT E S
 The city-states traded many
goods with different nations.
The crusades
merchants
with
brought Arab
Italian
city-
states. Later, business for Italian
merchants continued to grow.
PART 3: RENAISSANCE
ART
RENAISSANCE ART
When
the
medieval
artists
depicted the birth of Jesus, they
wanted to remind Christians
about their belief that Jesus was
born
to
save
the
world.
Renaissance artists differentiated
their work from medieval artist
in many ways.
RENAISSANCE ART
 The artists in the time of the
Renaissance also tried to show
people emotions, Renaissance
painters
also
used
new
techniques, the most innovative
was perspective.
RENAISSANCE ART
Perspective is a method that
makes a drawing or painting
look dimensional. To be able
to make their paintings look
more realistic, the artists used
a
technique
Chiaroscuro.
called
RENAISSANCE ART
 Chiaroscuro softened edges by
using light and shadows instead of
stiff outlines to separate objects.
In Italian chiaro means “clear or
light” and oscuro means “dark”.
This created more drama or
emotion in a painting.
PART 4: BOTTICELLI,
RAPHAEL,
MICHELANGELO
BOTTICELLI, RAPHAEL,
MICHELANGELO
Sandro
Botticelli
was
born
around in 1445, Botticelli became
a famous artist in Florence.
Botticelli sometimes painted on
wet plaster with water called
fresco, that in Italian means
“fresh”.
In
1481
Botticelli
painted three frescoes for the
pope in the Sistine Chapel.
BOTTICELLI, RAPHAEL,
MICHELANGELO
 Raphael Sanzio worked at the
same time as Leonardo Da
Vinci, but Raphael was much
younger. As a young man,
Raphael worked with ease and
grase and became known as one
of Italy’s best painters.
BOTTICELLI, RAPHAEL,
MICHELANGELO
Michelangelo
Buonarroti
painted, sculpted ad designed
buildings. He painted one of
the
most
best-known
Renaissance works the celling
of the Sistine Chapel in
Rome.
BOTTICELLI, RAPHAEL,
MICHELANGELO
 Although he painted many
outstanding works,
Michelangelo was a sculptor
at heart.
PART 5: LEONARDO DA
VINCI
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Leonardo Da Vinci was born in
April 15, 1452 I Vinci, Italy to a
woman
named
Caterina.
Leonardo Da Vinci was a Italian
renaissance polymath: painter,
sculptor, architect and a lot more.
Leonardo was considered to be
one of the greatest painters of all
times.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
 Leonardo Da Vinci’s most
popular painting is the Monalisa.
He was also one of the best
Renaissance scientist, inventor
and engineer. Most of what we
know about Leonardo comes
from his notebooks.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
By the time Leonardo was 15
years old, his father knew his
son had an artistic talent. By
1472, Leonardo had became
a master in of the painters
guild of Florence.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
 In 1516, Leonardo accepted
an invitation to live in in France.
The king admired Leonardo and
gave him freedom to pursue his
interests.
PART 6: THE INVENTION
OF THE PRINTING PRESS
THE INVENTION OF
THE PRINTING PRESS
The
printing
press
was
created in the early 1450s by
Johannes
Gutenberg.
The
printing press was the key of
humanist ideas throughout
Europe.
THE INVENTION OF THE PRINTING
PRESS
 The printing press used a
movable metal that typed. This
invention made it possible to
print book much more quickly
than written the by hand.
THE INVENTION OF
THE PRINTING PRESS
The printing press was a
large
improvement
to
Europe. The Chinese people
had invented blocks with
letters but the Europeans has
the whole alphabet.
THE INVENTION OF THE PRINTING
PRESS
 The first book that Johannes
Gutenberg printed was the Bible.
The
printing
press
helped
Europe to spread many different
types of literature.
PART 7: WILLIAM
SHAKESPEARE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
William Shakespeare was in 26
April 1564, he was an famous
English poet and writer. He did
28 plays and 154 sonnets. During
his career William Shakespeare
translated the plays into major
languages.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
 When William was 18, he got
married to Anne Hathaway. He
also had three children with Anne,
named Susann, Harnet, and Judith.
Some of Shakespeare and most
famous
comedies
Midsummer
Night’s
are:
a
Dream,
Twelfth Night, and Much Ado
About Nothing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
These plays and some of his
other playwrights, made him
well-known in England such
as Romeo and Juliet. In 1594
the first William Shakespeare
play, Titus Andronicus, was
published.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
 Shakespeare wrote a lot until
his death in 1616. Seven years after
his death, the first complete
collection of his work appeared.
This really big book has 35 plays
and was so expensive that only rich
people could afford that book.
PART 8: RENAISSANCE
SPREADS TO NORTHERN
EUROPE
RENAISSANCE SPREADS
TO NORTHERN
EUROPE
In
the
late
1400s,
the
Renaissance spread to northern
Europe.
The
northern
Renaissance refers to the art in
places we know today as
Belgium,
Luxemburg,
Germany, and Netherlands.
RENAISSANCE SPREADS TO
N O R T H E R N E U RO P E
 The
northern
artists
used
different art methods than the
Italian artist did. One of the
methods
the
Italian
artists
developed was the oil painting.
This was developed in Flanders.
This a region that is in northern
Belgium today.
RENAISSANCE SPREADS
TO NORTHERN
EUROPE
These oil painting let the
artists paint very small detail
in their drawings. Also the
northern artists wanted their
works t have a grater realism.
RENAISSANCE SPREADS TO
NORTHERN EU ROPE
 In fact Jan van Eyck was a
master of
oil painting. He
learned how to mix colors and
bled
them
togheter.
Some
thought the colors in his work
sparkled like jewels or stained
glass.
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