The Renaissance Period

Agenda for today1. Bell Ringer: What is your favorite part of history?

What is the best way that you learn material?2. Syllabus and Class Expectations

1. Textbooks2. Guidelines for the class

3. Brief Lecture: The Renaissance4. The Impact of the Black Death5. Painting Analysis: Renaissance and Medieval 6. Interpretation of Machiavelli’s “The Prince”

HW: Begin working on Vocabulary, Due 9/8

The RenaissanceA “rebirth” of art and

learning.Black Death ruins

economic growth.Medici family controls

Florence through wealth.Part of the merchant

class.Renaissance focuses

on learning Greek and Roman traditions. (Powerful Empires)

HumanismFocuses on human

potential and achievement.

Focuses on Greco-Roman values instead of Christian teachings.

“Humanities” Earlier humanists were

loners, as Renaissance progresses, they become a major factor in civic life.

Renaissance ArtMichelangelo

Statue of David (Stone)

Painting the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

He wanted to show the biblical history of the world.

Renaissance ArtLeonardo Da Vinci

Born 1452, a genius.

Paintings were realistic, a departure from Medieval works.

Mona Lisa, The Last Supper,

Renaissance ArtDonatello

Credited with “David” (but a bronze one completed 40 years before Michelangelo’s.

Renaissance ArtRaphael

Paintings represented an “ideal beauty”, Madonnas

School of Athens

Turtle Power

PetrarchCreated a library of

Roman and Greek Manuscripts.

HumanistHe aided in getting

Greek and Roman names out to the public.

“Sonnets to Laura” the ultimate long-distance relationship.

MachiavelliWrote “The Prince”

in 1513.The handbook on

how to control a country.

Two perspectives, a way to give rulers

an upper hand. A way to provide

peasants with a guide to ruling families.

What makes these paintings different?

The Black Death ChartAfter reading the

excerpt on the Black Death, analyze and identify two major impacts on each institution within the graph. Religion, Economic, and Social Class are all mentioned.

Time to complete task: 10 minutes.

While you are assessing the role the Black Death played on the Renaissance, please write down the number of your textbook and condition on the sheet that is going around the room.