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Origins of the Renaissance Document-Based Investigation

1. Paintings of The Last Supper from the 1400s

There are certain scenes, such as that of the Last Supper of Jesus, thaartists are frequently commissioned, or hired, to paint. Here are two versions of The Last Supper.

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Mondadori Porfolio/UIG. The Last Supper, by Unknown Artist, 15th Century. Universal Images Group.Getty Images. Web.

The Last Supper, 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este… Universal Images Group. Getty Images. Web.



Investigation Questions:

In this Document-Based Investigation, you will you analyze thesources and investigate this question:

What ideas and innovations helped create the Renaissance?

Once you complete your investigation, you will select one of the following products:

You are participating in a debate about the origin of the Renaissance. You are given the following declaration: “The ideas of ancient Greece and Rome had the most significant influence on the Renaissance.” Write the opening argument of your debate either agreeing or disagreeing with the declaration. Use the sources to back up your argument.

You are a history professor who specializes in the Renaissance. Write a class lecture that incorporates the sources from this investigation to explain which ideas and innovations helped create the Renaissance.



2. Petrarch on the failings of previous generations to preserve theworks of antiquity, c. 1300s

Petrarch, the intellectual father of the Renaissance, obsessively searched for and copied the writings of ancient authors. Petrarch rejected medieval scholarship and ways of thinking and instead embraced the writings of ancient Greece and Rome. In this passage, Petrarch is condemning those of the “Dark Age,” or medieval era, for not copying and spreading the ancient texts.

Each famous author of antiquity whom I recall, places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of later generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

Petrarch. Petrarch, the first modern scholar and man of letters; a selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and other friends, designed to illustrate the beginnings of the Renaissance; trans. James Harvey Robinson. 1909. 25-26. Web.



3. Leonardo Fibonacci introducing the Arabic numerical system to the West, 1202

Fibonacci (c. 1170-1240) lived just prior to the Renaissance; his book Liber Abaci (1202), popularized the Arabic numerical system (noted as “Indian Figures” in the source.).

Sanchez, Roberto A. Statue of Leonardo Fibonacci. Getty Images 157312445. Web.

Latin Original: Nouem Figure Indorum he sunt 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Cum his itaque nouem figuris, et cum hoc signo 0, quod arabice zephirum apellatur, scribitur quilibet numerous.

Translation: The nine Indian figures are: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 With these nine figures, and with this sign “0” which in Arabic is called zephirum [Zero], any number can be written.

Fibonacci, Leonardo, Scritti di Leonardo Pisano ... pubblicati da Baldassarre Boncompagni ... vol. 1. 1857. LC # 39011625. 2. Translation by Researcher, Stephen McCoy.



4. Statue of Athena from ancient Rome (c. 1000 B.C.E.) and a statue of Moses by Michelangelo (c. 1515)

DEA/G DAGLI ORTI/Contributor. Athena Farnese, Roman copy (1st-2nd century B.C.) after the original statue (circa 430 B.C.). 1989. De Agostini. Getty Images. Web.

Universal Images Group. Moses of Michelangelo. Universal Images Group. Getty Images. Web.



5. Video Segment, from Just the Facts: World History: The Renaissance.

Segment 6: “The Medicis of Florence”

This video segment highlights how the wealthy Medici family contributed to the Renaissance through their support of arts and learning.

“The Medicis of Florence.” Just the Facts: World History: The Renaissance Cerebellum, 2001 .Discovery Education. Web.



6. The Canon of Medicine by Ibn Sina (Avicenna), published in 1491

The Canon of Medicine was created by Persian Ibn Sina (Avicenna), in 1025 and summarized existing medical knowledge. The book was originally written in Arabic but was later translated into Latin by the 1300s and embraced in Europe. It is considered one of the most important medical texts ever written.

DEA Picture Library. Urine examination, by Avicenna. De Agostini. Getty Images. Web.



7. The Gutenberg Bible (1455), produced by Johann Gutenberg

Gutenberg began producing printed texts in his workshop in Mainz, Germany. By using movable type and a printing press, Gutenberg was able to create prints of books (like his famous Bible) much more quickly and cheaply than a scribe could copy a text. By 1455 he had refined his press enough to successfully print a text as lengthy as the Bible.

British Library/Robana/Contributor. The Gutenberg Bible. 01 Feb 1754. Hulton Fine Art Collection. Getty Images. Web.



8. Death of St. Francis by Giotto di Bondone, 1325

Italian painter Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), often simply referred to as “Giotto,” actively chose to represent his subjects in a realistic manner, breaking from the flat representations of figures throughout the Middle Ages. Giotto is considered the father of European painting.

DEA/A. DAGLI ORTI/Contributor. Death of St. Francis by Giotto. De Agostini. Getty Images. Web.

On Giotto, from Vasari’s Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, 1550

Giotto, seeing that he alone— although born amidst incapable artists, and at a time when all good methods in art had long been entombed beneath the ruins of war—yet, by the favour of Heaven, he, I say, alone succeeded in resuscitating art, and restoring her to a path that may be called the true one. And it was in truth a great marvel, that from so rude and inapt an age, Giotto should have had strength to elicit so much, that the art of design, of which the men of those days had little, if any, knowledge, was, by his means, effectually recalled into life….

The first pictures of Giotto were painted for the chapel of the High Altar, in the Abbey of Florence, where he executed many works considered extremely fine. Among these, an Annunciation is particularly admired; the expression of fear and astonishment in the countenance of the Virgin, when receiving the salutation of Gabriel, is vividly depicted; she appears to suffer the extremity of terror, and seems almost ready to take flight.

Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Trans. Mrs. Jonathan Foster. 1892. Web.



9. World Map created in Europe, 1100s

British Library/Robana/Contributor. Diagrammatic T-O Map. Hulton Fine Art Collection. Getty Images. Web.



10. World Map, 1100s, from the Middle East

Muslim geographers based their map-making on ideas from Greek scholar Ptolemy’s Geography.

UniversalImagesGroup/Contributor. The Tabula Rogeriana, drawn by al-Idrisis for Roger II of Sicily in 1154… Universal Images Group. Getty Images. Web.



11. World map created in Europe, c. 1400s

Renaissance scholars translated Ptolemy’s Geography from Greek to Latin in 1406, beginning an intense boom in the study of geography during the Renaissance.

DEA PICTURE LIBRARY/Contributor. Ptolemaic world map by Francesco Rosselli, copperplate on paper, 15th Century. De Agostini. Getty Images. Web.



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Investigation Question:

What ideas and innovations helped create the Renaissance?

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Document-Based Investigation Resource Sheet

Directions: As you analyze the sources in your packet, complete the organizer below.

Investigation Question: What ideas and innovations helped create the Renaissance?

Basic Information About the Source

- What is this? - Who created it? When? - What was its purpose? - Who was the desired audience? - Is it biased? How?

The Source’s Overall Message

- How would I summarize the content or overall message of this primary source?

The Source and the Focus Question

- Does this source help me address the focus questions? If so, how? If not, why not?



Putting It All Together


Use the space below to respond directly to the focus questions.

FIRST POINT OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE:

Why is this point important?

Which sources demonstrate this point?

SECOND POINT OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE:





THIRD POINT OF SUPPORTING EVIDENCE:



COUNTERPOINTS:

What will people who disagree with your position argue?

Why is your argument more convincing?



Scoring Rubric

EXEMPLARY

The argument or lecture: -takes a clear position on the ideas and innovations that helped create the Renaissance - provides relevant, insightful, and complete justification of the position taken, supported by specific evidence from multiple sources -contains no misconceptions or content errors

PROFICIENT

The argument or lecture: - takes a clear position on the ideas and innovations that helped create the Renaissance -provides relevant and accurate justification of the positions taken -contains no misconceptions or content errors

BASIC

The argument or lecture: - takes a position on the ideas and innovations that helped create the Renaissance -provides some relevant justification of the positions taken -may contain minimal interfering misconceptions or content errors

UNSATISFACTORY

The argument or lecture: -provides some information relevant to the topic of ideas and innovations that helped create the Renaissance -may contain significant misconceptions or content errors

NO RESPONSE/IRRELEVANT RESPONSE

The student provides a completely incorrect or irrelevant response or does not respond at all

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