You are a student from Holland, studying law at the university of Bologna, Italy. Life in Renaissance Italy is so exciting! You have met artist and writers and learned so much about art and literature. You can hardly wait to tell people at home about everything you have learned. But now a lawyer in Bologna has offered you a chance to stay and work in Italy.

Will you stay in Italy or return to

Holland?

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Objective & Standard

• I can describe the advances and achievements of the Renaissance and how it affects me today.

• SPI 7.48 Outline the advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography, engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy, including Leonardo da Vinci (Last Supper, Mona Lisa), Michelangelo (Sistine Chapel, The David), Johannes Gutenberg, and William Shakespeare.

Mathematics • Some Renaissance scientists thought

mathematics could help them understand the universe. They studied ancient math text and built on the ideas. They created many symbols such as:

• Square root• Positive • Negative

Science• Advances in mathematics led to advances in

other fields of science. Engineers and architects, for example, used new mathematical formulas to design ways to strengthen buildings.

• Other scientist wanted to know more about the sky and soon learned that the earth revolves around the sun!

Changes in education• Religious subjects were still being taught, but

now students are learning about humanities as well. History was also becoming very important and the famous renaissance scholar Petrarch warned against ignoring history:

What did he say???• “O inglorious age! That scorns antiquity, its

mother, to whom it owes every noble art…What can be said in defense of men of education who ought not to be ignorant of anquity (ancient times) and yet are plunged in…darkness and delusion

– Petrarch, from a 1366 letter to Boccaccio

Cartography • Cartography is map making. During the

Renaissance, papermaking came from China and so did print! This allowed the maps to be more accurate.

World Map of 1507

The written word spreads• Johannes Gutenberg – German engineer –

creates a printing press with movable type

1. How will his invention change the world?2. Was he the first person to come up with this

idea?

Printing Press

Leonardo Da Vinci• Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and

engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495–98) and Mona Lisa (c. 1503–06) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time.

The Last Supper

Engineering Ideas…

Engineering cont…

Mona Lisa

Human anatomy- Da Vinci

Michelangelo Michelangelo (1475-1564) was a sculptor, painter and architect widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance period—and arguably of all time. His work demonstrated a blend of psychological insight, physical realism and intensity never before seen. His contemporaries recognized his extraordinary talent, and Michelangelo received commissions from some of the most wealthy and powerful men of his day, including popes and others affiliated with the Catholic Church. His resulting work, most notably his Pietà and David sculptures and Sistine Chapel ceiling paintings, has been carefully tended and preserved, ensuring that future generations would be able to view and appreciate Michelangelo’s genius.

The Sistine Chapel

The Creation of Man

Michelangelo’s DAVID

Non Italian Artists...• Italian artists used Greek and Roman gods as

the focus of their art and the human form…that’s why that all have 6 pack abs and gorgeous faces!!

• As the Renaissance spreads into other parts of Europe, other artists will choose to draw people more realistically!

Shakespeare • William Shakespeare was one of the greatest

literary influences of all time. His plays are still popular today because of their language and the way he connects to humanity.

• Romeo and Juliet• Macbeth• Julius Caesar• Hamlet

Review1. Why was Da Vinci significant during the Renaissance?2. What works of art did Michelangelo paint? Why do you think this was so brilliant back then and now?3. How did the Renaissance influence education?4. Create a one sentence summary of what you have learned today.