Renaissance 151028113653 Lva1 App6892
Renaissance 151028113653 Lva1 App6892
Renaissance 151028113653 Lva1 App6892
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•Secular Movement
•People lost their faith in the church and began to
put more focus on human beings and material
possessions
When did the Renaissance Take
Place?
Roughly the 14th to the 17th century
How did the Crusades contribute
to the Renaissance?
Crusades (1095 – 1291) = Religiously
sanctioned military campaigns waged by
Roman Catholics against Muslims who had
occupied the near east since the Rashidun
Caliphate (founded after Muhammad’s
death in 632, the Rashidun Caliphate was
one of the largest empires of the time
period)
• Mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people
• Plague causes fever, painful swelling of the lymph glands, and spots
on the skin that are red at first and then turn black = Black Death
• Since China was one of the busiest of the world's trading nations, it
was only a matter of time before the outbreak of plague in China
spread to western Asia and Europe
• In 1347, Italian merchant ships returned from a trip to the Black Sea,
one of the key links in trade with China. When the ships docked in
Sicily (Italy), many of those on board were already dying of plague.
• Within days the disease spread to the city and the surrounding
countryside
Bubonic Plague Continued
• After five years 25 million people were dead--one-third of
Europe's population.
Machiavelli believed:
“One can make this generalization about
men: they are ungrateful, fickle, liars,
and deceivers, they shun danger and are
greedy for profit”
Machiavelli observed city-state rulers of
his day and produced guidelines for how
to gain and maintain power.
Absolute Rule
He felt that a ruler should be willing to
do anything to maintain control without
worrying about conscience.
• Better for a ruler to be feared than to be loved
• Ruler should be quick and decisive in decision making
• Ruler keeps power by any means necessary
• The end justifies the means
• Be good when possible, and evil when necessary
Chapter XVII
Whether it is better to be loved than feared
Chapter XVIII
How rulers should keep their promises
Do Now: Lesson 3A
Genoa
Had Access to Trade Routes
Rome
Rome
Headquarters of the Catholic
Church
All of these cities:
• Had access to trade routes connecting
Europe with Middle Eastern markets
• Served as trading centers for the
distribution of goods to northern Europe
Italian City-States
Because Italy failed to become united during the Dark
Ages, many independent city-states emerged in Italy.
The Trinity
Perspective!
Perspective! Masaccio
Perspective!
Perspective! 1427
Perspective!
Perspective!
Perspective!
First use
of linear What you are, I
perspective! once was; what I
am, you will
become.
4. Emphasis on Individualism
Leonardo da Vinci
1469
The figure as
architecture!
The Dreyfus Madonna
with the
Pomegranate
6. Light & Shadowing/Softening Edges
Sfumato:
gradual
blending of
one area of
color into
another
Chiaroscuro: without a sharp
use of light
outline
and shade
Michelangelo
created his
masterpiece
David in
1504.
The Biblical
shepherd,
David (who
killed Goliath)
recalls the
harmony and
grace of
ancient Greek
tradition
15c
What
difference
century
makes!
16c
Sistine Chapel
About a year after creating
David, Pope Julius II
summoned Michelangelo to
Rome to work on his most
famous project, the ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel.
Socrates
Raphael (back)
Euclid
• The movable type printing press and the production and sale of
books (Gutenberg Bible) helped disseminate ideas and allowed more
people to become educated.
•Cultural and educational reform
Literacy rates
increased
Petrarch
Poet, Humanist
scholar
Francesco Petrarch
1304-1374
Assembled Greek and
Roman writings
Wrote:
Sonnets to Laura
(Love poems in the
Vernacular)
English Humanist
Wrote: Utopia
A book about a perfect society in
which men and women live in
harmony, there is no private
property, no one is lazy, all people
are educated and the justice
system is used to end crime instead
of executing criminals
Bibliography
Images from:
Corbis.com