The Renaissance Period
Agenda for today
Bell Ringer: What is your favorite part of history? What is
the best way that you learn material?
2. Syllabus and Class Expectations
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Textbooks
Guidelines for the class
Brief Lecture: The Renaissance
4. The Impact of the Black Death
5. Painting Analysis: Renaissance and Medieval
6. Interpretation of Machiavelli’s “The Prince”
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HW: Begin working on Vocabulary, Due 9/8
The Renaissance
 A “rebirth” of art and
learning.
 Black Death ruins
economic growth.
 Medici family controls
Florence through wealth.
 Part of the merchant class.
 Renaissance focuses on
learning Greek and Roman
traditions. (Powerful
Empires)
Humanism
 Focuses on human
potential and achievement.
 Focuses on Greco-Roman
values instead of Christian
teachings.
 “Humanities”
 Earlier humanists were
loners, as Renaissance
progresses, they become a
major factor in civic life.
Renaissance Art
 Michelangelo
 Statue of David (Stone)
 Painting the Ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel
 He wanted to show the
biblical history of the
world.
Renaissance Art
 Leonardo Da Vinci
 Born 1452, a genius.
 Paintings were realistic, a
departure from Medieval
works.
 Mona Lisa, The Last
Supper,
Renaissance Art
 Donatello
 Credited with “David” (but
a bronze one completed 40
years before
Michelangelo’s.
Renaissance Art
 Raphael
 Paintings represented an
“ideal beauty”, Madonnas
 School of Athens
Turtle Power
Petrarch
 Created a library of Roman
and Greek Manuscripts.
 Humanist
 He aided in getting Greek
and Roman names out to
the public.
 “Sonnets to Laura” the
ultimate long-distance
relationship.
Machiavelli
 Wrote “The Prince” in
1513.
 The handbook on how to
control a country.
 Two perspectives,
 a way to give rulers an
upper hand.
 A way to provide peasants
with a guide to ruling
families.
What makes these
paintings different?
The Black Death Chart
 After reading the excerpt
on the Black Death, analyze
and identify two major
impacts on each institution
within the graph. Religion,
Economic, and Social Class
are all mentioned.
 Time to complete task: 10
minutes.
 While you are assessing the
role the Black Death played
on the Renaissance, please
write down the number of
your textbook and
condition on the sheet that
is going around the room.