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The Renaissance
Why did it begin?
One Cause of Renaissance: The Crusades
• Crusaders encountered new products while in the Middle East
• This increased demand for Middle Eastern products in Europe
• Stimulated production of goods to trade in Middle Eastern markets
• Promoted contact with European kingdoms, Byzantines, and Muslim Empires
• Encouraged the use of credit and banking
Economic Concepts
• Church sayz no usury • Non church banks show up• Letters of credit (Borrowing) served to expand
the supply of money and expedited trade• New accounting and bookkeeping practices
(use of Arabic numerals) were introduced
Renaissance Trade
• Which cities had an advantage in trading goods between the Middle East and Western Europe?
Trading Routes• On the coast of the Mediterranean• In between Europe and the Middle East
Florence, Venice, and Genoa
• Had access to trade routes connecting Europe with the Middle Eastern markets
• Served as trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe
• Were initially independent city-states governed as republics
Political, Cultural and Social Achievements
The Renaissance
Machiavelli’s The Prince
• An early-modern treatise on government
• Basic Principles– One ruler with absolute power
is OK– Maintains that the end justifies
the means– Advises that one should do
good if possible, but do evil when necessary
Comparison: Art and Literature
Medieval • Focused on the –Church– Salvation
Renaissance• Humanistic art which
focused on – Individuals–worldly matters–Christianity
How Art was created during the Renaissance
Patrons• Wealthy individuals/families
who sponsored artists• Paid to have artistic works
created• e.g. Medici family of
Florence
Humanism
• Celebrated the individual– Showed emotion– Very life-like, realistic
• Often depicted daily life (ordinary, not churchy)
• Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture
• Artists tried to imitate Greco-Roman style
Renaissance Man
• Someone well rounded in all fields of life– Painting, Sculpting– Inventing– Play music, write poetry– Science, Math, Languages– War (fighting and commanding)– Theology– etc.
• Good example – Leonard da Vinci– His mirror writing– His Cover Letter
Artistic and literary creativity
• Leonardo da Vinci—Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
• Michelangelo—Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and David
• Petrarch—Sonnets, humanist scholarship
• Dante – The Divine Comedy
Time to Play
Name that Artwork and Artist!
The Last SupperLeonardo Da Vinci
Mona LisaLeonardo Da Vinci
DavidMichelangelo
Sistine Chapel CeilingMichelangelo
School of AthensRaphael
Other examples
Northern Renaissance
Changes
• Growing wealth in Northern Europe supported Renaissance ideas
• Northern Renaissance thinkers merged humanist ideas with Christianity.
• Gutenburg – The movable type printing press and the production and sale of books helped disseminate ides.
• Northern Renaissance artists portrayed religious and secular subjects.
• Martin Luther – The Church Reformation
Writers• Northern Renaissance writers• William Shakespeare• Erasmus—The Praise of Folly (1511)• Sir Thomas More—Utopia (1516)