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Review Questions
1. How and Why did the Renaissance begin?
2. Why Italy?
3. What is Humanism and what was it’s influence?
Renaissance Art
• Art was to look as real as possible.
• Learned to create perspective to give depth, studied anatomy, and subtle human gestures to convey emotions.
• Art still focused on Religion, but had aspects of Greece, Rome and Secular world included.
Art Techniques
• Use of PERPSECTIVE to show 3-D using a foreground and background and a vanishing point
• Balance and geometry
• Knowledge of anatomy and biology
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
• Leonardo often called the ideal "Renaissance man“
• Mainly painter, but studied many other fields including anatomy, physics, and aerodynamics.
• He thought up plans for a helicopter, a tank, and concentrated solar power.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
• Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.
• Considered by many to be the best pure artist of the Renaissance.
Raphael Sanzio (1483 – 1520)
• Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance
• Focused on perfection and grace in his paintings and drawings.
Renaissance Architecture
• Brunelleschi most famous for the cathedral in Florence.
• Michelangelo also influential for dome of St. Peter’s Church in Rome.
• Was based on Roman and Greek architecture.
Niccolo Machiavelli• Italian diplomat in 1498
• Focused on Politics and Power.– One of the first modern Political Thinkers.
• Wrote The Prince to address politics and power.
Machiavelli• Read the exert from The
Prince on page 417. • Answer these
Questions:– Summarize why
Machiavelli feels it is better to be feared than loved
– Do you agree or disagree? And Explain why.
The Italian Renaissance
• They were interested in human achievement (instead of religious or spiritual achievement)
• The figures in their artwork looked like Greek or Roman gods, i.e. perfect or ideal
The Northern Renaissance
• More interested in the early Christian period.
• The figures in their artwork were more realistic.