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Page 1: The Italian Renaissance 1300s – 1500s “Renaissance” = REBIRTH Rebirth of.... An interest in and knowledge of Classical Culture Creativity in art and

The Italian Renaissance

1300s – 1500s

Page 2: The Italian Renaissance 1300s – 1500s “Renaissance” = REBIRTH Rebirth of.... An interest in and knowledge of Classical Culture Creativity in art and

“Renaissance” = REBIRTH

Rebirth of . . . .

•An interest in and knowledge of Classical Culture

•Creativity in art and literature

•A general interest in increased knowledge of the world

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Origins of the Renaissance

• Rediscovery of Greek and Roman ideas– Through Crusades, trade, fall of Constantinople

• Urban centers of Italy– Centers for the exchange on new ideas

– Effected economically and socially by the plague of the 1300s

• Merchants (the new rich of Europe)– Enhanced political power through patronage of the arts

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1300s – the beginnings of the Renaissance

1. Giotto di Bondone

•Painted figures that looked lifelike and real

•Sought to create an illusion of depth

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2. Dante Alighieri

Wrote the Divine Comedy

- written in the vernacular

- included real people in the story

- full of political comments

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3. Francesco Petrarch

-Wrote sonnets in Italian

-wrote letters to influential people in classical latin

-strove for the simplicity of classical poetry

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New Values of the Renaissance

1. Love of Classical (Greek and Roman) learning (humanism)

2. Celebration of the individual

3. Enjoyment of worldly pleasures (secularism)