7th chapter 30 notes

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Leading Figures of the

RenaissanceChapter 30



30.1 Intro.

• Why was there so much creative energy during theRenaissance?

• Much creative energy during the renaissance b/cpeople were educated in many different areas.



30.2 How Did the Ren. Spread Through

Europe?• Ideas were spread from Italy through trade, travel, and

education.

• Ideas spread rapidly due to the invention of the printingpress with removable type by Johan Gutenberg.

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What do you think was another result?• With more material available, more people began to read.



30.3 Who Was Michelangelo?

• Who was he?

• He grew up a troubled youth who lived with the Medicis for a while.

• What kind of artist was he?

• Known for combining ideal beauty with emotional expressiveness.

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What were his best known works?• Best known works were: ceiling of Sistine Chapel, Pieta, Moses,

David.



30.4 Who Was Titian?

• He was the master painter of Venice.

• Developed a free style using blobs of paint to create vivid forms,colors, and textures.

• Created paintings depicting myths and Bible stories.

• Became the court painter of Italy.

• Who did he paint portraits of?



30.5 Who Was Albrecht Durer?

• Studied with a famous painter and printmaker.

• What do you think he placed major importance on?

• Placed major importance on human proportions.

• Developed style in which he blended detail with idealized beauty helearned from Italians.

• Very skilled at making woodcuts and engravings.

• Where do you think these would end up?

• Wrote many books about human proportions in art.



30.6 Who Was Copernicus?

• What did he do?

• He’s the father of modern astronomy.

• How did he study astronomy?

• Skilled in math and observation.

• What was his greatest achievement?

• Studied the motion of the planets and observed that the Earth rotates onits axis and revolves around the sun.

• Published findings in Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres.

• Why would the church forbid people from reading it?



30.7 Who Was Vesalius?

• Who was he?

• He’s the father of modern medicine.

• How did he study the human body?

• He observed and dissected human bodies.

• What did he learn?

• He discovered that the heart has 4 chambers, and theconstruction and functions of the human body.



30.8 Who Was Isabella I?

• She helped unify Spain.

• Married Ferdinand of Aragon and then b/c queen of Spain.

• What were they responsible for?

• They encouraged exploration. Funded Columbus’ voyage to the newworld in 1492.

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What was the result?• Brought great wealth to Spain.

• Guess what else they were responsible for…

• Unified Spain by kicking out the Jews.



30.9 Who Was Elizabeth I?

• One of England’s most popular monarchs of all time. “England’s GoldenAge.”

• Reigned for 45 years and never married.

• Why?

• She was strong, able, flexible, and willing to change unpopular policies.

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What did her subjects call her?• How did she contribute to the Renaissance?

• She supported theater, fashion, dance, literature, and education.

• She helped make England rich and powerful.



English defeating the Spanish Armada

1588



30.10 Who Was Shakespeare?

• Who was he?• Began as an actor, and then wrote plays that were often performed

at the Globe Theatre.

• One of the greatest poets and playwrights of all time.

• Had deep understanding of human behavior and emotion.

• Wrote many love poems, tragedies, and comedies.

• What were some of his most famous plays?

• What were common themes in Shakespeare’s writing?



Which play is this from?



What about this one?



And this one?



Lastly?



The Globe Theatre



30.11 Who Was Cervantes?

• He was a soldier, prisoner, and possible criminal.• What did he write?

• Wrote plays, poems, and novels.

• What did he have a particular talent for?

• Had a talent for satire, which was demonstrated in his masterpiece“Don Quixote.”

• What’s Don Quixote about?

• Don Quixote is considered one of the greatest novels ever written.



30.12 Who Was Leonardo?

• What did Leonardo study?• As a teen studied under a master painter in Florence and studied

art, music, math, anatomy, botany, arch., and engineering.

• Drew precise drawings of people, plants, animals, and ideas aboutgeometry and mechanics.

• What types of things did he design?• Designed weapons, buildings and machines.

• What was his most famous work?

• Most famous work was the Mona Lisa.

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