Renaissance in Northern Italy: Art, Learning, and Trade
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Renaissance • Means REBIRTH • Rebirth of art and learning • Began in northern Italy
Economic Foundations • Increased demand for MiddleEastern products • Encouraged the use of credit and banking • Letters of credit expanded supply of money and sped up trade. • New accounting and bookkeeping practices used Arabic numerals
Italy • Italian city-states became rich from trade: • Florence • Venice • Genoa • They were trading centers for the distribution of goods to northern Europe. • Independent city-states governed as republics by wealthy merchants.
Niccolo Machiavelli • Wrote The Prince • guidelines for the how to get power by absolute rule. • Believed the ends justified the means • One should do good if possible, but do evil when necessary.
Art and Literature • Medieval art and literature focused on the Church and salvation. • Renaissance art and literature focused on individuals and worldlymatters, along with Christianity.
Artists and Writers • Artists • Leonardo da Vinci • Michelangelo • Writers • Petrarch
Leonardo da Vinci • Painted the MonaLisa and The Last Supper • Handsome, athletic, singer, artist, scientist, inventor
Michelangelo • Painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and sculpted David • Sculptor, painter, architect, poet
Creation of Adam Creation of Eve The Last Judgment Separation of Light and Darkness
Pieta David
Pythagoras Plato and Aristotle Socrates
Raphael (back) Euclid Zoroaster & Ptolemy
Petrarch • Wrote Sonnets • He wrote with a Humanistic approach • Considered the “Father of Humanism”
Humanism • Celebrated the individual • Stimulated the study of Greek and Roman literature and culture • Humanists were supported by PATRONS who were very wealthy The Vitruvian Man
Northern Renaissance • With the rise of trade, travel and literacy, the Italian Renaissance spread to northern Europe. • The art and literature changed as people of different cultures adopted Renaissance ideas.
Northern Renaissance Writers • Erasmus—The Praise of Folly (1511) • Critical of corrupt church practices • Catalyst for Protestant Reformation
Northern Renaissance Writers • Sir Thomas More—Utopia (1516) • Depicts world with perfect social, legal and political system • Leading humanist scholar
The Printing Press • Major invention of the Renaissance • Printing press created by Johannes Gutenberg • Was the first way to print large amounts of text at once, instead of by hand or by blocks • 1st book printed was the “Gutenberg Bible” • Influence of the printing press was… • Made books faster and more accessible to people • Made books much cheaper than before • Increased the literacy rate of people in Europe • Allowed more people the ability to be educated