RenaissanceCa 1430-1550

Define:

Duh…rebirth…What does that mean?

About the Renaissance

Began in Italy Chief patrons were merchants So, why there?

Spread North Transformed as it moved Aggressively applied humanist ideas to the

ChurchTwo prongs: Italian and Northern

Renaissance

Characteristics of Renaissance Art

Use of dimensionStrive for realismBiblical OR mythological themesImportance of the individual

Giotto“The Adoration of the Magi”

1304-1306. Fresco. Capella degli Scrovegni, Padua, Italy

Masaccio Saint Peter Baptizing

from The Brancacci Chapel,1424-28fresco 247x172 cmSanta Maria del Carmine, Florence

Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

Da Vinci Vitruvian Man

Fetus in Womb

The Virgin on the Rocks, c. 1485

Rafael School of Athens, 1509-1511

Michelangelo 1501-04,

marble, 13' 5" high, Florence

Sistine Chapel, 1508-12, fresco, 5800 square feet

Titian

Durer

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, c. 1497-8, woodcut, 15"x 11"

Writers…

PetrarchMacchiavelliErasmusSir Thomas MooreDante

…so, it means what?

“The term ‘Renaissance’ captures contemporaries’ sense that they were making a break with the church-centered medieval world and establishing a new concept of man as the center of the world.”

~~Robert Tignor, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

What were some results?

Increased Education Power of national government Creative writing

Decreased Power of pope