Italian Renaissance Renaissance rebirth cultural awakening in Europe
Italian Renaissance
Renaissance • • “rebirth” cultural awakening in Europe started in Italy about 1350 – 1600
• Causes more trade between Europe and Islamic Empire • preservation of Greco-Roman knowledge by Byzantines and Muslims • more trade = more money
Why Italy? • center of trade routes • attachment to classical (Roman) traditions • prosperous city-states • Florence, Venice, Rome
New Ideas • individualism – emphasis on person as individual rather than part of a group • secularism – focus on worldly themes instead of religious
Key People • • Niccolo Machiavelli Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Petrarch
Patrons • Wealthy people who sponsored art • Showed high social status
Niccolo Machiavelli • wrote The Prince – handbook for princes on ruling • supported absolute power • end justifies the means • try to do good, evil if needed
Leonardo da Vinci • artist, scientist, inventor • painted Mona Lisa and The Last Supper • “Renaissance man”
Mona Lisa Why is this painting so famous?
The Last Supper
vertical The Last Supper - da Vinci, 1498 horizontal Perspective!
Michelangelo • artist – painter and sculptor • painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel • sculpted David
Sistine Chapel
Sistine Chapel • • • 1508 -1512 Fresco Last Judgment back wall 1536 -1541
The Sistine Chapel Details The Last Judgment
David
Petrarch • poet and scholar • love sonnets inspired poetry in Romeo and Juliet • humanist writings
The School of Athens – Raphael, 1510 -11 Da Vinci Raphael Michelangelo
Raphael Painter 1483 -1520
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