renaissance italy2

By: Natalie O’Neil, Brea Gordon, Jack Rosenfeld, Matt Harner, & Nick Lee

Architecture

Science & Technology

Music

Class System

Table Etiquette

Art

Fashion

Medicine

Run by wealthy merchants and bankers who wanted to show it off.

Harmony and geometric symmetry were desired. Rather than using Gothic architecture, they sought after Roman and Greek building styles.

For the first time, there were people specifically designing buildings instead of master masons which also worked on them.

Gothic Architecture

Greek Architecture

Wind and watermills and blast furnaces

Heavy plow increased productivity of crops and plants at that time.

GUN POWDER

1500 print shops had opened in western Europe. Only 11 books were being printed at the time which means the books had to be good and the authors had to pay.

Popular Instruments The Zink Similar to the recorder

Most Multipurpose of Renaissance Instrument Played for serious or

dance music

Bagpipes Mention in Bible

Celtic Migration Persia, India, Greece, Ro

me

Clergy (Religious), Nobility, Commoner

Status: Gender, Power, Lineage, Education, City of Birth

Do not spit across the table

Do not chew loudly like the French

Do not put legs on the table

Do not hiccup

Do not rub teeth with napkin or worse finger

Do not scratch yourself at the table

Do not offer your neighbor a pear or other fruit which you already bit

Do not look into handkerchief after blowing nose as if pearls or rubies are in it

Avoid spitting into fingers

Florentine

Was founded by Julius Caesar

The origins of the city date back some two thousand years to 500 B.C.

Rome, Greece and Gothic Art

Clothing

Rich did not want same clothes as poor

“Sacrifice everything for fashion”

More fit than loose

Women High collars

Men ruffs

Renaissance medical scholars relied on observations as well as ancient theories to explain how the body works. (Hippocrates and Galen)

Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary or Midwives

¼ of people died from? Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci

“25%” of Europe lived in a city

Italy even more

Venice

190,000 people in 1600

Myth of Venice

Religious Origin

“Perfect” government

Unity

Productive

Kind

Rough formula:

Tall buildings

Fortifications (Early Ren. Only)

Towers

Walls

High agriculture directly outside city

Farmers sometimes within city, commuted out