the renaissance and reformation ppt class 7

Renaissance and reformation

1. Copyright © Clara Kim 2007. All rights reserved.

2. Renaissance
•Means
REBIRTH
•Rebirth of art
and learning
•Began in
northern Italy

3. Contrast to grimness of the Middle
Ages
Wars
Plagues
Spend life
preparing for
the afterlife
Decreased
power of the
church

4. A Visual Metaphor of the Renaissance

5. What was the Renaissance?
•Period following the
middle ages
•“Rebirth”of classical
Greece and Rome
•1
st
period to name
itself and say bad
things about earlier
times (Dark Ages)
•NAMES FOR ARTISITS
•Began in Italy
•Moved to northern
Europe

6. Economic Foundations
•Increased demand for
MiddleEasternproducts
•Encouraged the use of
creditand banking
•Letters of credit
expandedsupply of
moneyand sped up
trade.
•New accountingand
bookkeepingpractices
used Arabic numerals

7. Objectives
•During the middle
ages
–Find God
–Prove pre-conceived
ideas
•During the
Renaissance
–Find man
–Promote learning
–Man loves himself
again

8. Causes of the Italian
Renaissance
•Crusades
•Control of Mediterranean Trade

9. Major Italian Cities
.
Many independent city-states emerged in
northern and central Italy that played an
important role in Italian politics and art.
Milan Venice
Florence
Milan
One of the richest cities, it controls trade
through the Alps.
Venice
Sitting on the Adriatic, it attracts trade
from all over the world.
Florence
Controlled by the De Medici Family, who
became great patrons of the arts (AKA Bored
Rich people)
Genoa
Genoa
Had Access to Trade Routes
Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with
Middle Eastern markets
Competition with each other
• Served as trading centers for the distribution of
goods to northern Europe
• Were initially independent city-states governed
as republics

10. Beginning of the
Renaissance in
Europe
Growth of the
Trade and
Commerce
Crusades connect with Muslims
Muslims
introduce
new ideas
Cities and Merchants grow
Influence of City States
Trade = Wealth
Rich Families Support Arts
The Growth of Humanism
Greece and Rome Change ideas about government, religion, social class
Tried to improve on old things
“Humanities” in Education

11. •Sophistication of Italian City-States
•Growth of Banking & Trade
•Crusades
•Control of Mediterranean Trade

12. •Printing
Press
•Crusades
•Control of Mediterranean Trade
•Sophistication of Italian City-States
•Growth of Banking & Trade
•Excess Wealth: de Medici family of
Florence

13. Renaissance Art
•perspective
•light & motion
•study of human form
•emotion & drama
•new subject matter>secularism
•science & mathematics
•composition & balance
•changing perspective of man & his role in the
world
•unique vision of each artist

14. Effects of the Renaissance
•Advances in Science & Technology led to the
European Exploration of the World
•Secularism led to the Protestant Reformation
•Humanism encouraged the growth of
Democracy & the Fight for Human Rights
•Role of Women in Society Improved
•Renaissance Art led to the Age of Classical
Music and Art in Europe

16. Italy
•Italian city-statesbecame
rich from trade:
–Florence
–Venice
–Genoa
•They were tradingcenters
for the distributionof goods
to northernEurope.
•Independent city-states
governed as republicsby
wealthy merchants.

17. Renaissance
•With the rise of
trade, travel and
literacy, the Italian
Renaissance spread
to northern Europe.
•The art and literature
changed as people
of different cultures
adopted
Renaissance ideas.

18. Machiavellian Intrigue
•Wrote The Prince
•studied the politics of
Florence, Venice &
Rome
•analyzed use of power,
force, & Deception
•How to book for future
leaders
•Including...
Niccolo Machiavelli

19. De Medici Family of Florence
•Cosimo & Lorenzo
•city improvements
•patron of the arts
•peace & prosperity
Savonarola
•Franciscan Friar
•banned gambling, swearing, etc.
•burned books & paintings

20. The Borgia: First Italian Crime Family
•Pope Alexander VI
–bribery, extortion, nepotism,
torture
•Casare Borgia (son)
–multiple murders, mercenary
•LucreziaBorgia (daughter)
–What really happened to
her husbands?

21. Humanism
•Celebrated the
individual
•Stimulated the study
of Greek and Roman
literature and culture
•Humanists were
supported by
PATRONSwho were
very wealthy
The Vitruvian Man

22. Art and Literature
•Medieval artand
literature focused on
the Churchand
salvation.
•Renaissance art and
literaturefocused on
individualsand
worldlymatters,
along with
Christianity.

23. Renaissance Artists embraced some of the ideals of Greece and
Rome in their art
They wanted their subjects to be realistic and focused on
humanity and emotion
New Techniques also emerged
Frescos: Painting done on wet plaster became popular because it
gave depth to the paintings
Sculpture emphasized realism and the human form
Architecture reached new heights of design

25. Artists
•Artists Big 3
–Leonardo da
Vinci
–Michelangelo
–Raphael
–1500 Florence

26. Leonardo da Vinci
•Painted the
MonaLisaand
The LastSupper
•Handsome,
athletic, singer,
artist, scientist,
inventor

27. Mona Lisa

30. Notebooks

31. Raphael
Painter
1483-1520

32. The School of Athens

33. Pythagoras
Socrates
Plato and Aristotle

34. Euclid
Zoroaster & Ptolemy
Raphael (back)

35. Michelangelo
•Painted the
ceiling of the
SistineChapel
and sculpted
David
•Sculptor,
painter,
architect, poet

36. The Sistine Chapel
Ceiling

37. Pieta

38. David
Michelangelo
created his
masterpiece
David in
1504.

39. Sistine Chapel
About a year after creating
David, Pope Julius II
summoned Michelangelo to
Rome to work on his most
famous project, the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel.

40. La Pieta 1499
Marble Sculpture

41. Moses

42. The
Last
Judge-
ment

43. Writers
•Dante
•Divine Comedy
•Circles of Hell

44. Petrarch
•Wrote Sonnets
•He wrote with a
Humanistic
approach
•Considered the
“Fatherof
Humanism”

45. Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Desiderius Erasmus
Pushed for a Vernacular form of the
Bible
“I disagree very much with those who
are unwilling that Holy Scripture,
translated into the vernacular, be
read by the uneducated . . . As if the
strength of the Christian religion
consisted in the ignorance of it”
The Praise of Folly
Used humor to show the immoral and
ignorant behavior of people, including
the clergy. He felt people would be
open minded and be kind to others.

46. •Sir ThomasMore
—Utopia (1516)
•Depicts world with
perfectsocial,
legal and political
system
•Leading humanist
scholar

47. Pictures Cited
•Slide 1 –http://renaissance.duelingmodems.com/art/renaissance-head3.gif
•Slide 2 –http://www.leftfield-online.co.uk/images/discography/scan/renaissance.jpg
•Slide 3 –http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/ac/300px-Madonna_of_the_Harpies.jpg
•Slide 4 –http://www.alberta-canada.com/export/graphics/images/italy_map.jpg
•Slide 5 –http://niccolomachiavelli.worldhistoryblogs.com/files/2007/10/machiavellis_portrait.jpg
•Slide 6 –http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/img_200/madonna_rangershouse.jpg
•Slide 7 –http://www.navigo.com/wm/paint/auth/michelangelo/michelangelo.tondo-doni.jpg
•Slide 8 –http://z.about.com/d/atheism/1/0/N/e/LeonardoSelfPortrait.jpg
•Slide 9 –http://www.latifm.com/artists/image/da-vinci-leonardo-mona-
lisa.jpg,http://www.penwith.co.uk/artofeurope/leonardo_da_vinci_last_supper.jpg
•Slide 10 –http://www.shoshone.k12.id.us/renaissance/images/michel.jpg
•Slide 11 –http://studentorganizations.missouristate.edu/TAK/downloads/michelangelo1.jpg
•Slide 12 –
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/visualarts/images/david_big.jpg,http://www.rome.info/pictur
es/art/michelangelo/michelangelo_pieta.jpg
•Slide 13 –http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17650/17650-h/images/01large.jpg
•Slide 14 –http://www.artspecialist.co.uk/images/Vetruvian%20Man_Clare%20Vaux.JPG
•Slide 15 –http://www.sverigeturism.se/smorgasbord/smorgasbord/image/first/scandinavia.gif
•Slide 16 –http://www.piney.com/Erasmus.gif
•Slide 17 –http://www.wf-f.org/WFFResource/StThomasMore.jpg