Renaissance, a French word for
“Rebirth”
Between the years of 1350-1550,
A new way of thinking swept over
Italy and spread throughout
Europe
It marked the end of the
Middle Ages
Important aspects during this period
A Time of Great Intellectual and Artistic Creativity
Themes of the Renaissance
Individualism- People strived for Fame
Worldliness- The Rich wanted to show off
wealth. They spent lavishly on material
luxuries.
Love of Classical Learning- Renaissance
scholars loved Greek and Roman Art,
Literature, and Architecture
Changes in Attitude
Question #1: What themes do you see in this Renaissance painting?
Themes: Individualism & love of Classical Learning
Question #2: What themes do you see in this Renaissance painting?
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David
Convicted of Corrupting the Youth, Socrates chose death by poison over exile and
became a martyr for his principals
Themes: Individualism & love of Classical Learning
Differences in roles of Women
Question #3: What themes do you see in this Renaissance painting?
Themes: Worldliness &
Individualism
Medieval women
dressed plainly and
many became nuns or
Renaissance women could be
educated, in the Money Changer and housewives
His wife, she is actually bookkeeping
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
• This Michelangelo painting symbolizes man’s separation
from God, it’s in the Sistine Chapel
Famous Italian Renaissance People
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564
Raphael 1483-1520
Donatello 1386-1466
Later were reincarnated into mutant ninja turtles
Sandro Botticelli 1483-1510
Masaccio 1401-1428
Filippo Brunelleschi 1344-1446
Titian 1485-1576
Giovanni Bellini 1430-1516
All of these famous painters, sculptors, and
architects are from Italy
Donatello
Main Weapon Wooden Pole
Known for sculpting and spent time studying and
copying Greek and Roman statues also is from
Florence, Italy
Pictured on right freestanding statue of St George
Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519 from Florence, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci Self Portrait
Mona Lisa owned by France
Famous Leonardo paintings
The painting depicts the very moment that Jesus has
said to his disciples: “One of you will betray me.”
The disciples are all reacting in horror to the thought
that someone at that table would betray their master.
The Adoration of the Magi
includes 66 humans and 11
animals in this picture
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564
The Creation of Adam depicts man’s
separation from God. This also
symbolizes Humanism or Individualism
which means living for oneself instead of
living for God
1: Zeno of Citium – 2: Epicurus – 3: unknown (believed to be Raphael[15] or Federico
II of Mantua – 4: Boethius or Anaximander or Empedocles – 5: Averroes – 6:
Pythagoras – 7: Alcibiades or Alexander the Great? – 8: Antisthenes or Xenophon or
Timon? – 9: Hypatia,[16] or Raphael,[17] or Fornarina as a personification of Love[18] or
Francesco Maria della Rovere? – 10: Aeschines or Xenophon? – 11: Parmenides?
(Leonardo da Vinci) – 12: Socrates – 13: Heraclitus (Michelangelo) – 14: Plato
(Leonardo da Vinci) – 15: Aristotle (Giuliano da Sangallo) – 16: Diogenes of Sinope
17: Plotinus (Donatello) – 18: Euclid or Archimedes with students (Bramante) – 19:
Strabo or Zoroaster? (Baldassare Castiglione) – 20: Ptolemy – R: Apelles (Raphael)
– 21: Protogenes (Il Sodoma, Perugino, or Timoteo Viti)[19]