By Frank Bartell, Aaron Hamlin, Melody
Salgado, and Paul Ibrahim
Table of Contents
Chapter 1- Italian Renaissance Artists
Chapter 2- Northern Renaissance Artists
Chapter 3- Art Techniques
Chapter 4- Compare and Contrast
Chapter 5- Renaissance Authors
Chapter 6- Renaissance Society
Chapter 7- Technology
Chapter 8- How is the Renaissance linked to modern day
Introduction
This book includes incite on what art and artists were like during the
Renaissance. In this book you will learn about Renaissance artists like Leonardo
da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Albrecht Durer. The Renaissance techniques included
in this book are the fresco and the tempera. This book also includes the
Renaissance authors Macchiarelli and Sir Philip Sidney. The inventions included
in this book are the printing press and the clock.This book compares and contrasts
the Italian and Northern Renaissance, and how the Renaissance is linked to
modern day. This book also answers the question of how the Renaissance is the
beginning of the modern world and how it is reflected in modern society.
Chapter I
Leonardo da Vinci: Both a scientist and a Renaissance painter, Invented the first
helicopter, and was given a nickname: The Renaissance Man. (1452-1519)
Michelangelo: Studied both Anatomy and Renaissance art. At an early age he had
already started to make marble statues, such as “David” and the “Pieta”. He was
also considered a painter. He painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel. He died at
the age of 80 years old. (1475-1564)
Chapter II
Northern Renaissance- Ideas from the Italian Renaissance spread to
the north and caused a major movement involving humanism. The northern
renaissance included the German, French, Polish, and English
Renaissances, the Renaissance in the Low Country, and other nationalised
movements.
Albrecht Dürer- a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German
Renaissance, who created a great amount of woodcut prints, including his
Apocalypse series, although later in life he did start making watercolour
paintings and self-portraits.
ApocalypseThe Martyrdom of St. John
Chapter III
Fresco- The Method of painting water based pigments on freshly applied plaster,
usually on wall surfaces.
Tempera- Painting executed with pigment ground in a water miscible medium.
Tempera came from the verb “temper”.
Chapter IV
Italian artists vs Renaissance artists.
Similarities
Both Italian and Northern Renaissance Artists
used Religious scenes in their artwork.
Both Italian and Northern Renaissance Artists
used oil for their works.
Both Italian and Northern Renaissance were
devoted to the Church.
Both Italian and Northern Renaissance
influenced other humanists.
Differences
● Used different Subject matters. Italians
used mythology, while Northern Renaissance
artists used Domestic interior and portraits.
Used differed Styles of Art the Italian artists
made works that were Symmetrical, balanced,
good sense of mass, linear perspective.
● Italian Renaissance took place in Italy,
was not as religious, focused on humanism,
fresco and Rome and Greece.
● Northern Renaissance was within Europe,
was more religious , focused on color, detail,
sciences, mathematics, but not as much
humanism.They did oil painting on wood.The
Northern Renaissance was also known as the
gradual change from the Medieval Era into the
renaissance.
School of Athens by Raphael
Chapter V
Niccolò Machiavelli-“Born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli
was a diplomat for 14 years in Italy's Florentine Republic during the Medici family's
exile. When the Medici family returned to power in 1512, Machiavelli was dismissed
and briefly jailed. He then wrote The Prince, a handbook for politicians on the use of
ruthless, self-serving cunning, inspiring the term ‘Machiavellian’ and establishing
Machiavelli as the ‘father of modern political theory.’ He also wrote several poems
and plays. He died on June 21, 1527, in Florence, Italy.”(Biography.com Editors)
Philip Sidney- “born on November 30, 1554, at his family's state at Penshurst in Kent, England.
From his youth, Sidney was respected for his high-minded intelligence, and frequently provided
diplomatic service to Queen Elizabeth I as a Protestant political liaison. His opposition to her
French marriage earned her displeasure, however, and he later left court and began writing his
poetical works. In 1586, Sidney accompanied his uncle, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to the
Lowlands to defend the Protestants and was wounded in battle, dying a few weeks later, on
October 17. Considered a national hero, Sidney was given a lavish funeral. When his poetry was
subsequently published, he became lauded as one of the great Elizabethan
Chapter VI
Some of the aspects of the Renaissance Society are individualism and humanism.
Individualism is a social theory that favors the freedom of actions instead of
collective or state control. Humanism was a Renaissance cultural movement
which moved away from medieval scholarship, and instead, focused interest in
Ancient Latin and Greek thought. These two movements were heavily prevalent
throughout the Renaissance, and some of these ideas are still around today.
Chapter VII
Printing press (1456)- Invented by Johannes Gutenberg. The printing press is a
machine for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print surface
faster than printing by hand. Brought interest to the spread of knowledge.
The Clock (1300)- Made by the Chinese in the 1300’s when mechanical clocks
began to appear, the clocks rang every hour. started to be used by churches.
soon had faces and was used in houses.
Chapter VIII
“The Renaissance had a profound influence on the course of the development of modern
American society, culture, and, since it is a natural extension of both, artistic expression. The
Renaissance influence in America brought about a new focus on humanism and as a result, a
subsequent turning away from the dominant ideals put forth by the church. Although religion was
still of the greatest influence throughout the period of the Renaissance, the dawning recognition of
human potential and scientific inquiry shaped the course of Western history and does still influence
contemporary American culture today. Principles of realism, particularly as they appeared in terms
of art and literature have remained vital in all aspects of American society and figures such as
Boccaccio, da Vinci, Machiavelli, and others live on and influence the way we view our world
today.” - Articlemyriad.com
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