The ITALIAN Renaissance



Name: ______________________________________ Date: ________________________ Page: _____

Notes: The Renaissance (Italian + Northern)

Renaissance – “__________________________”

• Renewed interest in ______________________ and ___________________ styles and methods in the Humanities

The Renaissance Beginnings

• Why Italy?

– Home to ruins of the ________________________ Empire

– Crusades and trade with _______________________ Empire

– Trade with ___________________ and ________________________

– Rich Italian city-states

– ___________________ Family (patrons of the Arts)

Humanism

• Theory that emphasizes human _________________________ and ______________________ inquiry and deemphasizes the importance of religious focus

• Study of the ____________________________ (philosophy, art, literature, etc.)

The Italian Renaissance

Italian Renaissance: Writers

• Francesco Petrarch

– One of _________ __________________________ and proponent of classical writers

• Niccolo Machiavelli

– Diplomat and historian

– Wrote “________________________________________”

– Government should be ___________________ and ______________________ without much concern for morals

Italian Renaissance: Art

• __________________________ and ____________________________ images were a contrast to “other worldly” art of Medieval times

• Perspective- technique making _______________________ objects ______________________ than those in the foreground (__________________); create __________________________ of depth on a ________________________ surface

Italian Renaissance: Artists

• Leonardo da Vinci

- “_____________________________________” (architect,

engineer, painter, sculptor, and scientist)

- science influencing art ( realistic figures

Works include: “_____________________________________________”and “___________________________”

• Michelangelo

- ____________________ ____________________ (at the Vatican)

- sculptures such as “______________________”

• Raphael

- known for paintings/depictions of ______________________

The Northern Renaissance

• Renaissance spreads from ____________________ through the _________________ and ____________________ of Europe (Danube, Rhine)

• New universities are established = more emphasis on education

• PRINTING PRESS – _______________________ ________________________ (Germany) was 1st European to use movable type to print books

- What book do you think was printed the most? ___________________________

Northern Renaissance: Writers

• Desiderius Erasmus

– Interested in Early _________________________ and ______________/________________ periods

– “_________________ of ___________________” – criticisms of Christian faith

• Thomas More

– “_______________________” (imaginary, ideal society)

– ________________________ for not going along with King Henry VIII’s annulment request and recognizing Henry as the head of the church

Northern Renaissance: Artists

• Jan and Hubert van Eyck

– Attention to detail and ___________________ expression

– More ___________________ than symbolic

• Peter Brueghel

– Scenes of village __________________ and _______________________

– Used paintings to criticize intolerance

• Albrecht Durer

– ______________ engravings and woodcuts

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“School of Athens” by Raphael

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“Pieta” by Michelangelo

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