The Renaissance

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Renaissance

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

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Economic Foundations

• Increased demand for Middle Eastern products
• Encouraged the use of credit and banking
• Letters of credit expanded supply of money and
  sped up trade.
• New accounting and bookkeeping practices used
  Arabic numerals

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Italy

• Italian city-states became rich from trade
• Florence
• Venice
• Genoa
• They were trading centers for the distribution of
  goods to northern Europe.
• Independent city-states governed as republics by
  wealthy merchants.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

• Wrote The Prince
• guidelines for the how to get power by absolute
  rule.
• Believed the ends justified the means
• One should do good if possible, but do evil when
  necessary.

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Art and Literature

• Medieval art and literature focused on the Church
  and salvation.
• Renaissance art and literature focused on
  individuals and worldly matters, along with
  Christianity.

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Artists and Writers

• Artists
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Michelangelo
• Writers
• Petrarch

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Leonardo da Vinci

• Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
• Handsome, athletic, singer, artist, scientist,
  inventor

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Michelangelo

• Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and
  sculpted David
• Sculptor, painter, architect, poet

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The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
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Pieta
David
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Petrarch

• Wrote Sonnets
• He wrote with a Humanistic approach
• Considered the Father of Humanism

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Humanism

• Celebrated the individual
• Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman
  literature and culture
• Humanists were supported by PATRONS who were very
  wealthy

The Vitruvian Man
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Northern 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.

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Northern Renaissance Writers

• ErasmusThe Praise of Folly (1511)
• Critical of corrupt church practices
• Catalyst for Protestant Reformation

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Northern Renaissance Writers

• Sir Thomas More Utopia (1516)
• Depicts world with perfect social, legal and
  political system
• Leading humanist scholar