The RenaissanceMr. PerreaultRenaissance/Reformation Unit 2012

Why the French Word?!Renaissance is composed of the

word Naissance which means “birth”. So Renaissance means “rebirth”.

Rebirth of what? The Middle Ages were the Dark

Ages, not much was going on with art, music, culture and so on. This all changed in the 1400s!

So What Happened?!The Ninja Turtles

happened!!! Sort of…

Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, and Donetello were all Renaissance artists.

Splinter, the rat, tells of how he named the Ninja Turtles after these artists!

Michaelangelo

MichaelangeloMichelangelo di

Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 – 1564)

Italian painter best known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and his statue of David.

He did not ride a skateboard or say dude!

MichaelangeloMichaelangelo

painted the Sistine Chapel for 4 years, depicting scenes from the Bible.

David took less time, but has appeared in pop culture including an episode of the Simpsons.

Raphael

RaphaelRaffaello Sanzio

da Urbino (1483 – 1520)

Painted many chapels, portraits, but most famous of his paintings of Christ.

No Ninja Skills.

RaphaelFamous portrait

of Pope Julius II, the guy who commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel.

The Catholic Church employed many artists during this time as “patrons”.

RaphaelThe two cherubs

on the bottom are popular icons of the era.

Raphael was never as popular as Leonardo or Michelangelo… just like in the Ninja Turtles!

Donatello

DonatelloDonato di Niccolò di

Betto Bardi (1386 – 1466)

Made many sculptures, including his take on David.

Famous patrons were the Medici family.

Weilded a hammer and chisel, not Bow staff.

Leonardo

LeonardoLeonardo di ser Piero

da Vinci (1452 – 1519) Sculptor, painter,

scientist, inventor, musician, philosopher, cartographer, mathematician, engineer, architect, botanist, genus, and a writer... The true Renaissance Man!

Could be a Ninja?

Anatomy, Cartography

Flying Machines

Da Vinci Code?An author, Dan

Brown, published a book called The Da Vinci Code, and it became a movie.

In the movie, Da Vinci left codes to hide the truth about the true story of Jesus Christ.

The Truth: There is no solid

evidence that Da Vinci had a code, but given the body of work he left behind… anything is possible.

Brain BreakWhat does the Renaissance

mean? Who were the painters of the

Renaissance? (Think Ninja Turtles!)

What did Da Vinci do during his life?

The Renaissance The Renaissance began in Italy, aka The

Southern Renaissance, and moved north to Germany and then onto the Netherlands, eventually to England. This was the Northern Renaissance.

Humanism - A system of thought that centers on humans and their values, capacities, and worth.

The focus was more on the human spirit than on religion, hence all the paintings and sculptures of people.

The Renaissance Art wasn’t the only part of the

Renaissance. MusicLiteraturePhilosophyMedicineSociety

MusicComposers: William Byrd, John Dowland

(the composers of the era would lead into the Baroque Period with J.S. Bach)

Instruments: Violins, Violas, Cellos, Mandolins, Guitars, and Lutes. Eventually a Harpsichord then the Piano-Forte (soft/loud) aka Piano.

Most instruments were adapted from Crusade-era gifts brought back from the Middle East.

Lute The Lute is the grandfather of the

modern guitar. It is a copy of the Ud, popular in Egypt and the Middle East.

Violin The violin wasn’t like our modern

version.

Stradivarius Eventually in the late 1600s, an

Italian cabinet maker will make the modern violin out of these instruments.

To get your own Strad, be ready to pay as high as $20 million!!!!

Church MusicDuring the Middle Ages, monks

kept music alive. Guido d’Arezzi (Guido’s Hand)

created a system of notation. Pope Gregory I allowed music in

Catholic Church, just no pipe organs… they were banned!

Gregorian Chant was used until the Renaissance when church music grew.

Chant Music

Brain BreakWhat was Renaissance music

like? What instruments were played

during this time? What was church music like at

this time?

Other Renaissance NotablesJohannes Gutenberg, printing

press. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury

Tales. Nicolas Copernicus, solar system. William Shakespeare, Romeo and

Juliet. Lorenzo de Medici, banking.

Johannes Gutenberg- moveable type, printing press

Gutenberg’s impactThe printing press made books

faster and cheaper to produce.Books were no longer written by

hand. Copying used to take forever!

Books could be printed in different languages like English and German, creating a rise in other languages being used for academics, government, and business.

Niccolo Machiavelli Wrote The Prince, a book about

how to rule a country in the Renaissance Era.

Geoffrey Chaucer Wrote the

Canterbury Tales, in English.

It is a tale about a Knight and other people who go on a journey to a shrine.

Nicholas Copernicus

CopernicusAstronomer who challenged the

idea that the Earth was the center of the universe.

Heliocentric – the Sun is the center of the universe.

This idea outraged many people, including the Catholic Church.

We now know the Earth revolves around the sun.

William Shakespeare At the end of the Renaissance,

Will Shakespeare begins writing plays in England.

Eventually, during the Elizabethan Era, he will make his greatest plays including Romeo and Juliet… which he may have stolen…

Lorenzo de Medici The Medici

established themselves as a powerful family in Europe, based out of Italy.

He financed many artists, including Da Vinci.

Eventually created a bank system in Europe. $$$$$

Brain BreakWhat was Johannes Gutenberg

famous for creating? How did this invention change

language?Name one famous person from

the Renaissance and tell what they were famous for?

THE ENDThis is just the basics of the

Renaissance, it was close to two centuries of change in Europe that would make European nations into modern societies and the countries we know today!

AssignmentOption A: How do you think life

during the Renaissance was different from life during the Middle Ages? Explain your answer in 1 paragraph.

Option B: In the spirit of Leonardo Da Vinci, create a drawing of your own Da Vinci inspired machine.