Renaissance

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Painter of the Sistine Chapel?

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Michaelangelo

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Timeframe of the Renaissance?

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It began in the 1300s and reached its peak around 1500 marking the transition from medieval times to the early modern world.

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What was the Renaissance ?

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It was a time of creativity and great change in many areas—poltical, social, economic, and cultural. It marked a slow shift from an agricultural to an urban society, in which trade assumed a greater importance than in the past. It was also a time when creative thinking and new technology let people comprehend and describe their world more accurately.

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What is the meaning of Renaissance.

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Rebirth. During the Renaissance , creative minds set out to transform their own age. Their era, they felt, was a time of rebirth after what they saw as the disorder and disunity of the medieval world.

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Renaissance thinkers had a reawakened interest in what type of classical learning?

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Greece and Rome. These learning has been preserved by medieval scholars and were in Latin as the language of the church was still Latin. Medieval scholars had focused more on religious beliefs and spirituality. In contrast, Renaissance thinkers explored the richness and variety of human experience in the here and now. At the same time, society placed a new emphasis on the individual achievement. Indeed, the Renaissance ideal was a person with talents in many fields.

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What was the intellectual movement that passed at the heart of the Italian Renaissance?

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Humanism. Humanist studied the classical culture of Greece and Rome.

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Why was the classical culture of Greece and Rome studied by Humanist?

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To increase the understanding of their own times.

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What was the focus of humanist during the Renaissance?

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Humanist focused on worldly subjects rather than religious issues that had occupied medieval thinkers.

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What were the humanities?

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Subjects such as grammar, rhetoric (the study of using language effectively), poetry and history.

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Who was Francesco Petrarch?

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A Florentine, early humanist, poet, and scholar who helped enable the works of Cicero, Homer, and Virgil to Western Europeans.

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Where did the Renaissance begin?

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Italy. Over the next hundred years it would spread to the rest of Europe.

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What economically fueled the wealth in Italy during the Renaissance?

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Trade. Trade routes carried new ideas that helped shape the Renaissance. Muslim scholars had preserved and developed the scientific and technical knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome which had been forgotten in medieval Europe. Contact through trade gave Italy access to the Muslim world's wealth of knowledge.

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This geographical factor allowed powerful wealthy merchant families to have control of a specific areas of Italy.

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City-states. Merchant families exerted both political and economical leadership, and their interest in the art and emphasis on personal achievement helped shape the Italian Renaissance.

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This family ranked among the richest merchants and bankers in Europe as it ruled Florence.

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The Medici. Cosimo de' Medici gained control of the Florentine government in 1434.

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Known as "the Magnificent" was the Grandson of Cosimo he helped Florentine stability in the late 1400s as a clever politician. He was also a patron, or financial supporter, of the arts.

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Lorenzo de' Medici. Florentine became an area of success for many poets, artist, architects, scholars, and scientists as the Medici brought wealth and patronized many important artist.

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What type of people flowered the Renaissance with glorious expressions.

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Wealthy patrons, popes, princes, and even ordinary people who were beginning to appreciate human experiences not related to the church.

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Renaissance painters returned to the realism of classical times by developing a new technique that represented both humans and landscapes which is known as..?

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Perspective. By making distant objects smaller than those close to the viewer, artists could paint scenes that appeared three-dimemsional. Shading was also used to make objects look round and real. Oil paints helped reflect light. The study of human anatomy helped portray the human body more accurately.