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The Waning of the Middle Ages

• What events led to the end of the Middle Ages?– The Great Famine– The Black Death– The Hundred Years’ War– The Great Schism– The Crusades

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The Renaissance - Introduction

• New interest in learning about Greece & Rome• Great turning point in Western Civilization• Began in Italy– Location– Cities emerge as important centers– Independence not crushed

• Wealthy supported artists• Used observation to explain world

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Painting & Sculpture

• Giotto– New painting style – Life-like space– Depth, shading, emotions

• Masaccio– Perspective

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• Leonardo Da Vinci– Sculptor, Inventor, Painter– Mona Lisa, Last Supper

• Michelangelo– Sculptures – David, Moses, Pieta– Sistine Chapel – Paintings of Bible scenes

Painting & Sculpture

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Architecture

• Drew from Ancient Rome• Columns & Circular Arches• Filippo Brunelleschi– Designed roof of Florence Cathedral

• Artistic accomplishments showed fascination with this world instead of next

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Scholarship & Literature

• Studied works of Rome & Greece• Petrarch – Father of Humanism• Erasmus – Questioned the church• Writers focused on dignity of man, celebrated

pleasures of the sense, & instructed behavior• Wrote in vernacular (local language)

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Science & Technology

• Nicholas Copernicus– Earth orbits Sun– Banned by church b/c it went against what they

taught• Galileo Galilei– Motion laid foundation for physics– Supported Copernicus’ theory– 1632 – Inquisition found him guilty of speaking

against church

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Essential Question

• What achievements of the Renaissance still affect modern day society?