Italy and The Renaissance

By T. Lu For Mr. Haskvitz

Early Renaissance• Started in Italy in the late Middle

Ages • Movement of knowledge in

classical sources, new art, educational reform

• Intellectual,technological, agricultural progress

Renaissance In Florence• Great wealth from manufacturing

and trade of wool and creation of textiles

• Became very influential in society and politics

• Had strong economy and political philosophy

Medici Family• Powerful and

influential family• Lead the birth of

the Italian Renaissance with other Signore families

Why the Renaissance Started in Italian City-

states• Ruins of Ancient Rome inspired art about Roman memories

• Florence, Milan, Venice and Genoa had the best art and architecture

• Were wealthy from trade with Asia • Invention of the printing-press

Independent Trading Cities

• Venice• Milan• Genoa• Florence• Pisa• Siena • Ferraro

Venice• was a Republic• was an empire

that controlled land in modern day Italy

• a major port of trade

•Full of ceramists, glassworkers, woodworkers, lace makers and sculptors Redentore

Church

San Giorgio Maggiore

Milan• In 1447 Francesco

Sforza came to power in Milan and rapidly transformed that still medieval city into a major centre of art and learning

Cathedral of Milan

,

Genoa• St. Maria di

Carignano• trade,

shipbuilding and banking helped support one of the largest and most powerful navies in the Mediterranean

Florence Architecture

Ospedale degli Innocenti

The church of San Lorenzo

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Façade of Santa Maria Novella

Florence Cathedral

(Santa Maria del Fiore,

called the Duomo)

Pisa• 1558 the Knights

Square was rebuilt in Renaissance style by Giorgio Vasari

•main building on square is Palazzo della Carovana, palace of Knights of St. Stephen (formerly the Palace of the Elders )

Knights Square MonumentLeaning Tower Of Pisa

Siena

• Renaissance ideals first spread from Florence to neighboring states of Tuscany (like Siena)

Piazza del Campo

Ferrara • Talented composers sang in papal choir in Rome or numerous chapels of the aristocracy

•brought polyphonic style with them, influencing many native Italian composers

Palazzo dei

Diamanti

Assessment!!1.In what City-state did Renaissance

ideas first spread from Florence to Tuscany?

2.Who lead the birth of the Italian Renaissance?

3.In what ways did Italy gain from spreading ideas of the Renaissance?

Assessment!! Cont.• 4.What 3 things helped Genoa

support one of the largest navies in the Mediterranean?

• 5. What advances did the Renaissance offer?

Answers!!• 1. Siena• 2. The Medici Family• 3. Intellectual, agricultural, and

technological advances and new knowledge of classical sources, new art and educational reform

• 4. Banking, trade and shipbuilding

Answers!! Cont.• 5. Agricultural, technological, and

intellectual advances