The Renaissance

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The Renaissance

• Rebirth of classical culture and learning

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The Renaissance Begins

• Where?
• In Florence, Italy (later spread north)
• When?
• Around 1300
• Why?
• Urban centers, power of the merchants and
  influence of the de Medici family
• What?
• New styles in art, writing and thought

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Influence of the Crusades

• Brought back learning and new ideas from the
  Middle East
• New values
• Artists and writers were eager to be known as
  individuals
• Love of classical learning flourished
• Enjoyment of worldly pleasures
• Idea of the ideal man changed
• Idea of the ideal women changed

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Renaissance Art

• Artists began painting and sculpting lifelike
  images
• Often art would glorify the human body
• Discovered techniques to use perspective

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Renaissance Artists

• Michelangelo
• David, the Sistine Chapel
• Da Vinci
• Mona Lisa, the Last Supper,
• scientific experiments and inventions
• Rembrandt
• the Flemish School of Art

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• Writers and the printing press helped
• spread the Renaissance spirit
• to the rest of Europe.