New Ideas and Art Renaissance Continues Humanism Balance

New Ideas and Art Renaissance Continues

Humanism Balance between religion and reason

Francesco Petrarch • • • Poet and Scholar in the 1300’s Father of Italian Renaissance Humanism Latin manuscripts Vatican Library in Rome Led to large amount of studying

Vernacular The everyday language of people

Danti Alighieri (Italy) • The Divine Comedy • 14000 lines • Main characters travel from hell to heaven and described it very vividly so readers could understand (vernacular)

Chaucer (England) • The Canterbury Tales • 29 pilgrims of Canterbury • Levels of English society, nobles, at the top and the bottom

Johannes Gutenberg • Developed the printing press • Helped spread the renaissance • Gutenberg’s Bible was the first European book printed on the press

Leonardo da Vinci • • Scientist ( Corpses/fossils) Artist (Last Supper) Inventor (glider) Engineer (military tank, scuba diving suit)

Perspective Three-Dimensional

(Chiaro) clear (osuro) Light Chiaroscuro Softened edges by using light and shadows instead of stiff outlines to separate objects

Fresco • Italian word for fresh • Frescoes were painted in churches all over Italy • The Last Supper (Da Vinci) • School of Athens ( Rapheal)

Michelangleo • Painted Sistine Chapel • Sculpted David and Moses

Northern Renaissance • Oil painting • Flanders: a region that is northern Belgium today • Jan Van Eyck (Master Oil painter) • Albrecht Durer( Engraver) (Four Horseman of the Apocalypse)

Shakespeare • Theater popular because poor people could attend • Strengths, weaknesses, and emotions • Hamlet, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet

Review • What is the benefit from writing in the vernacular? • How did Petrarch contribute to the preservation of roman knowledge? • What did the renaissance artists try to portray in their works? • How did the northern renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance?