The Renaissance

• History
• Year 2

The Renaissance

Is it a rebirth? 

What does the Renaissance mean to you? How would you define it?

Italy as the center of the Renaissance 

• Travel to for the Crusades went through Italy 
• Italian city-states had many ports and modes of transportation 
• Ideas travel with trade
• The dogmatism of the church is not as prolific in the Italian states, which is ironic since Rome is the center of the Catholic Church. 
• The center of the Renaissance is Florence. The Medici family is at the center of this. 

Humanism 

• Renewed interests in the classics of Greece & Rome
  
• Humanism = intellectual movement that focused on secular (worldly, nonreligious) themes rather than religious ideas that had dominated medieval thought
• Believed in individualism = emphasis on the dignity & worth of the individual person
  
• Believed that people should try to improve themselves
  

Renaissance Art 

• Subjects were lifelike 
• Perspective in paintings
• Art was often mythological or religious in themes
• Artists became "famous" and revered  

Giotto, Madonna and Child 

c. 1310/1315

Raphael, Madonna and Child with Book, 1502-03

Differences in art

Machiavelli 

• He was a political thinker and writer during the Renaissance 
• His work, The Prince, is still famous today and provided a framework on how to rule for Renaissance leaders. 
• The following video talks about Machiavelli. I have it stop at 10 minutes. 

Why do you think Machiavelli and his work are still relevant today?

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