Printing During Renaissance

 Venice monopolized 1/8th of all printed books
 Illustrations increased book sales
 How did printing affect the world?
 Governments printed laws, declarations of war, and propaganda
 Book banning and illegal book smuggling occurred
 Mass publication of the Bible
Art and the Artist/Art and Power
 The 3 capitals of renaissance art : Florence, Rome, and Venice
 During the Middle Ages and 1400s, the main subject of art was religion
 Religious art pieces were created to keep people in the Faith
 Oligarchies and patrons began to support the Arts
 Art displayed the power and wealth of families and businesses
 The Medici family spent about 663,755 gold florins on art over a span of 35 years
 Palaces and private chapels were furnished …show more content…
 Women were prepped for taking up the role of a wife
 In an ideal relationship, men were the dominant ones
Politics and the State in the Renaissance (1450-1521)/France
 Rulers used secular political ideas to push out powerful nobles and decrease the power the Church
 Francis Valois I
 Was an important monarch who used art to glorify France
 Francis decorated palaces with the work of Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian
 He built the Louver and bought Mona Lisa
 Had a humanist education
 Searched for classic texts
 Ordered the New World voyages of Verrazano and Cartier in 1524
 Made French the official language
 King Charles VII
 Used the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438) to reduce the power of the pope
 Profited off the taxes on salt (gabelle) and land (tailles)
 King Charles formed the 1st standing army
 King Louis XI
 King Louis promoted industries and craftsmen to make money
 He pushed nobles out of power in order to unify France under one leader
 Pope Leo X
 He signed the Concordat of Bologna Treaty which allowed the papal to control the church’s finances and French kings to appoint church officials
England
 The decline of England
 Reasons
 Black Death
 Hundred Years’ War
 Civil