Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.
Renaissance
• Means
REBIRTH
• Rebirth of art
and learning
• Began in
northern Italy
Economic Foundations
• Increased demand for
Middle Eastern products
• Encouraged the use of
credit and banking
• Letters of credit
expanded supply of
money and sped up
trade.
• New accounting and
bookkeeping practices
used Arabic numerals
Italy
• Italian city-states became
rich from trade:
– Florence
– Venice
– Genoa
• They were trading centers
for the distribution of goods
to northern Europe.
• Independent city-states
governed as republics by
wealthy merchants.
Niccolo Machiavelli
• Wrote The Prince
– guidelines for the
how to get power by
absolute rule.
• Believed the ends
justified the means
• One should do good
if possible, but do
evil when
necessary.
Art and Literature
• Medieval art and
literature focused on
the Church and
salvation.
• Renaissance art and
literature focused on
individuals and
worldly matters,
along with
Christianity.
Artists and Writers
• Artists
–Leonardo da
Vinci
–Michelangelo
• Writers
–Petrarch
Leonardo da Vinci
• Painted the
Mona Lisa and
The Last Supper
• Handsome,
athletic, singer,
artist, scientist,
inventor
Michelangelo
• Painted the
ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel
and sculpted
David
• Sculptor,
painter,
architect, poet
The Sistine Chapel
Ceiling
Pieta
David
Petrarch
• Wrote Sonnets
• He wrote with a
Humanistic
approach
• Considered the
“Father of
Humanism”
Humanism
The Vitruvian Man
• Celebrated the
individual
• Stimulated the study
of Greek and Roman
literature and culture
• Humanists were
supported by
PATRONS who were
very wealthy
Northern Renaissance
• With the rise of
trade, travel and
literacy, the Italian
Renaissance spread
to northern Europe.
• The art and literature
changed as people
of different cultures
adopted
Renaissance ideas.
Northern Renaissance Writers
• Erasmus—The
Praise of Folly
(1511)
• Critical of corrupt
church practices
• Catalyst for
Protestant
Reformation
Northern Renaissance Writers
• Sir Thomas More
—Utopia (1516)
• Depicts world with
perfect social,
legal and political
system
• Leading humanist
scholar
Pictures Cited
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Slide 1 – http://renaissance.duelingmodems.com/art/renaissance-head3.gif
Slide 2 – http://www.leftfield-online.co.uk/images/discography/scan/renaissance.jpg
Slide 3 – http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/ac/300px-Madonna_of_the_Harpies.jpg
Slide 4 – http://www.alberta-canada.com/export/graphics/images/italy_map.jpg
Slide 5 – http://niccolomachiavelli.worldhistoryblogs.com/files/2007/10/machiavellis_portrait.jpg
Slide 6 – http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/img_200/madonna_rangershouse.jpg
Slide 7 – http://www.navigo.com/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/michelangelo.tondo-doni.jpg
Slide 8 – http://z.about.com/d/atheism/1/0/N/e/LeonardoSelfPortrait.jpg
Slide 9 – http://www.latifm.com/artists/image/da-vinci-leonardo-monalisa.jpg,http://www.penwith.co.uk/artofeurope/leonardo_da_vinci_last_supper.jpg
Slide 10 – http://www.shoshone.k12.id.us/renaissance/images/michel.jpg
Slide 11 – http://studentorganizations.missouristate.edu/TAK/downloads/michelangelo1.jpg
Slide 12 –
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/images/david_big.jpg,http://www.rome.info/pictur
es/art/michelangelo/michelangelo_pieta.jpg
Slide 13 – http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17650/17650-h/images/01large.jpg
Slide 14 – http://www.artspecialist.co.uk/images/Vetruvian%20Man_Clare%20Vaux.JPG
Slide 15 – http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/image/first/scandinavia.gif
Slide 16 – http://www.piney.com/Erasmus.gif
Slide 17 – http://www.wf-f.org/WFFResource/StThomasMore.jpg