The Renaissance

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The Renaissance

• Europes Rebirth
• 1300-1600

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Reasons for Renaissance

1. Increased trade (Venice), Crusades and the Black
   Death make people become more secular more
   interesed in this world than that of the
   afterlife
2. Leads to the idea of Humanism individual and
   human society are important as well as faith and
   afterlife
3. People begin to look back to the ancient Greeks
   and Romans for knowledge and learning rebirth
   of these ideas!
4. Led to a search for new ideas and great
   achievements in art, science, literature, math,
   medicine inventions

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But religion doesnt disappear
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
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Artists of the Renaissance

• Donatello Father of Sculpture
• Raphael Sanzio Painted many frescoes in the
  Vatican. Famous for School of Athens
• Michelangelo great Italian artist and sculptor
  (Sistine Chapel, David)
• Leonardo da Vinci Italian artist, inventor and
  scientist (The Last Supper, Mona Lisa,
  dissections of animals, interest in flight)

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Dontallo David
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Raphael Sanzio
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Raphael Sanzio
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Raphael Sanzio
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Raphael Sanzio
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Michelangelo Buonarroti
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The Statue of David
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Sistine Chapel
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The Creation of Adam
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Leonardo da Vinci
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The Last Supper
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Mona Lisa
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Sketches of Leonardo
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Leonardo Came to Buffalo, NY!
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Galileo Galilei
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Galileo Galilei

1. Italian scientist who believed knowledge came
   through experimentation
2. Proved that objects fall at the same speed
   regardless of weight
3. Improved the clock, telescope and invented the
   water thermometer
4. Believed that the Earth revolved around the sun
   big trouble with Catholic Church

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Printing Press vs. Internet
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I. The Printing Press

• Johannes Gutenberg - German inventor of the
  printing press
• This allowed for the mass production of books for
  the first time in history
• Large number of books increase in reading and
  writing more knowledge
• Promoted the rapid expansion of information and
  ideas just like the Internet does for our
  society today!