Renaissance: Italy and Northern Europe

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Renaissance Italy and Northern Europe

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Italy
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I. Why was Italy the Center of the Renaissance (3
reasons)

• A. City-States City had become very wealthy due
  to trade

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• B. Merchants and the Medici
• 1. Merchants felt they deserved power.
  (Individual Achievement)
• 2. Medici Family spread wealth throughout
  Florence

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• C. Looking to Greece and Rome Inspiration from
  Rome and re-reading Latin transcripts

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II. Classical and New Values

1. Humanism Focus on Human Achievement and
   Potential
2. Worldly Pleasures Expensive clothes, nice art,
   large houses
3. Church Leaders spent large sums of money on art
4. Renaissance Man Master all areas of study
5. Renaissance Woman Inspire art, not create it

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III. Renaissance Art

• A. Perspective 3D art

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• B . Donatello Realistic sculptures in Natural
  Poses

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• C. Michelangelo Sistine Chapel, David

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• D. Leonardo da Vinci Sculptor, Painter,
  Scientist Inventor

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• E. Raphael Famous 4 use of Perspective.
  Followed the other 3

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IV. Renaissance Writers

1. Boccaccio Decameron (pg 42)
2. Machiavelli How to be King (The Prince) Its
   better to be feared than loved
3. Colonna Female writer who expressed her
   feelings of love in poems