The RenaissanceChapter 13

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Why is this the most famous painting in the world?

The rebirth of culture

• A revival of art and thinking

It began in Italy- WHY?

Why Italy?

1. History – was once the center of the ancient Roman Empire

Why Italy?

2. Italian cities survived the middle ages

Why Italy?

3. Wealthy merchant class arose

A Patron

• A person who provides financial support to the arts

Florence

• The city at the center of the Renaissance

The Medici family

• Wealthiest merchant family in Florence• One of the wealthiest families in Europe at the time• The family controlled the Florentine government

Lorenzo the Magnificent

• A Medici family member

• Florentine politician and generous patron

Humanism

• Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues

Focused on the human experience

Created a spirit of adventure

Art

• Art always depicts the values of a culture

New art forms

• Perspective

New art forms

• shading

Artists study the human anatomy to paint and sculpt realistic forms

Art +Architecture:Reject Gothic style of Medieval

Times- Return to Greek and Roman use of Domes, Arches,

and Columns

Leonardo da Vinci

• Inventor, artist, botanist, musician, architect, and engineer

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper

Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches

Michelangelo

• Sculptor, engineer, painter, architect and poet

Michelangelo’s Pieta

Michelangelo’s David

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel

Raphael

• Artist and painter

Raphael’s The School of Athens

Raphael’s Madonna

Niccolo Machiavelli

• Wrote The Prince

The Prince

• A guide on how to gain and maintain power

• “the end justifies the means”

Renaissance Men• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

• Raphael

• Machiavelli

• Columbus

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Shakespeare

• Martin Luther

• Gutenburg

• Issac Newton

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