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The Renaissance in Italy
Name: _________________
AP European History
Renaissance
Characteristics:
5 Ideals of the Renaissance: {In your own words, what do they mean to you.}
 Humanism –
 Secularism –
 Individualism –
 Rationalism –
 VirtÚ –
Italian
City - States
Merchant oligarchies form
•Independent of _________ & _________.
Increase of trade
•Merchants
Largest cities in Europe
•Most influential:
What values can we extract (figure out)
from the pictures below?
Who is Filippo Brunelleschi?
Humanism:
Other Humanists:
Boccacio:
Brunni:
Renaissance Culture and Life:

Della Mirandola:
EDUCATION:
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Baldassare Castiglione’s- The Courtier “Let the man we are seeking be very bold, stern, and always among the
first, where the enemy are to be seen; and in every other place, gentle, modest, reserved, above all things
avoiding ostentation {showiness} and that impudent {bold} self praise by which men ever excite hatred and
disgust in all who hear them.”
Machiavelli - Should a leader rule like a lion or a fox?
The Prince 1514
His Beliefs
Lingering Questions:
1. What are the contributions made by Machiavelli to politics and political thought.
2. What motivated his writings?
3. How would you evaluate his conclusions?
His World
Renaissance Art
Art & Patronage:
Characteristics:
The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11
Da Vinci
Raphael
Michelangelo
David, 1430
DONATELLO
Gattamelata, 1450
Comparison between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance:
Middle Ages
Jeremia
h
Abraham,
David
Renaissance
Madonna and
Child
Madonna and
Child
Cimabue,
1285-1286
Pietro Perugino,
1490s
Isaiah
Versus
Notre Dame
Cathedral, Paris
1163-1250
Versus
Essential Question:
What characteristics of Italy, mainly Florence, can explain the “burst of creativity” demonstrated there from the 14 th -16th centuries?
The Renaissance Outside Italy – Northern Renaissance, Section 7
Differences…
Italy
Northern
Europe
Change was
inspired by
__________
_ with its
emphasis on
the revival
of the values
of classical
antiquity
~Change was
driven by
religious reform,
the return to
_____________
values, and the
revolt against the
authority of the
Church.
~Held onto to
______________.
~Fewer centers of
commerce.
Similarities…
Northern Renaissance
More intellectual:
Define Mysticism:
Critics who call for reform… Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life
Albrecht Durer,
“The Hare”
Northern Humanists
Erasmus of
Rotterdam
Sir Thomas Moore
Rabelais
Shakespeare &
Cervantes
Flemish Painters of the Low Countries
List the details associated with this paintings.
Hieronymus
Bosch
Pieter
Brueghel t
Elder
German Painters
List any paintings or characteristics
you notice by the painters.
1. Albrecht Durer
2. Hans Holbein the Younger
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Definition:
Characteristics
1. Unification and consolidation of a nation
2. Control or reform of legal system
3. Solidifying of hereditary monarchy
4. Suppression of opposition, esp. nobility
5. Guarantees of domestic peace