Renaissance in Italy

1. Renaissance in Italy

2. The Renaissance was a time of creativity and great change in many areas:

3. The Renaissance was a time of creativity and great change in many areas:

4. Political/Economic Change • Kings and church leaders had to make room at the top of the power structure for wealthy bankers and merchants.

5. During the Middle Ages, artists had worked not for themselves, but for the church. They were members of the working class.

6. During the renaissance, however, great artists such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael mingled socially with nobles.

7. Raphael’s work Raphael’s St. George

8. Raphael’s work Sistine Cherub

9. Raphael’s work

10. Economic/Political Change System based on King granting land to his important noblemen who became barons.

11. Economic/Political Change The nobles in exchange pledged loyally to the king and to provide supplies and soldiers in time of war

12. Feudalism: System based on labor of the lowest rung of the social order. Most Europeans were peasant farmers working on the land of a Feudal nobleman.

13. Marked the transition from medieval times to the early modern world

14. Peasants didn’t own their land, but worked it in exchange for a share of the crop and labor when required. As the Feudal system developed, the peasants or serfs became tied to the land, not allowed to leave it without permission of the lord of the manner.

15. Changes from the old Feudal System of the Middle Ages resulted in a more flexible and liberal class system. The poor underneath coliseum The divisions consisted of the old rich, the new rich nobles, the middle class, and the lower middle class (The poor didn't count)

16. Humanism After Before • Perhaps of greatest importance was that Europeans began to develop a radically different self image as they moved from a God-centered to a more humanistic outlook.

17. Europeans began to develop a radically different self image as they moved from a God-centered to a more humanistic outlook. Beauty was believed to afford at least some glimpse of a transcendental existence.

18. Human experience, man himself, tended to become the practical measure of all things. The ideal life was no longer a monastic escape from society, but a full participation in rich and varied human relationships.

19. Renaissance thinkers continued to use Latin as the language of the church as well as for scholarship

20. Renaissance man may indeed have found himself suspended between faith and reason. Living in the here and now was challenged by philosophical beliefs

21. As the grip of medieval supernaturalism began to diminish, secular and human interests became more prominent.

22. Creative minds set out to transform their own age • Felt their era was a time of rebirth after what they saw as the disorder and disunity of the medieval world.

23. Michelangelo’s David statute commissioned to express the power & strength of Florence Michelangelo sculpted his masterpiece out of a block of marble

24. Influence of Renaissance artists on present

25. Reawakened interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome which medieval scholars had preserved

26. However, Medieval scholars had focused more on religious beliefs & spirituality

27. Yesterday I was • Today I am • Tomorrow I don’t know thelma & louise In contrast, Renaissance thinkers explored the richness & variety of human experience in here and now

28. Worshiped the creation Instead of the creator titans

29. Society placed new emphasis on individual achievement Renaissance ideal included a person with many talents

30. “Spirit of Adventure” Curiosity led people to explore new worlds or to reexamine old ones.

31. Navigators sailed across the ocean Scientists looked at the universe in new ways

32. Writer’s and artists experimented With new forms and techniques e40

33. Spirit of adventure came from new view of man himself • “To (man) it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.” Italian thinker: Pico dellaMirandolaidol

34. Expressing Humanism • Humanist studied classical culture of Greece and Rome and used that study to increase understanding of their own times

35. Humanities : include study of the following subjects…

36. Humanists valued education • Francesco Petrarch: assembles a library of Greek and Roman manuscripts Believed that it stimulated the individual’s creative powers

37. Francesco Petrarch’s efforts Encouraged others to preserve the works of Great Roman and Greek classics,

38. Renaissance resulted in a new world view based on human experience and emphasis on education, humanism and the spirit of adventure

39. Italy’s Vibrant City-States • Italy was divided into many small city-states

40. Each Italian city-state was controlled by a powerful family and dominated by a wealthy and powerful merchant family.

41. Merchant families exerted both political and economic leadership. • -their interest in art and emphasis on personal achievement helped to shape the Italian Renaissance.

42. The Medici (med uh chee) family • of Florence ranked among the richest merchants and bankers in Europe.

43. Cosimo de’ Medici gained control of the florentine government in 1434 Pope Pius II, said: "Political questions are settled in [Cosimo's] house. The man he chooses holds office...He it is who decides peace and war...He is king in all but name.” • -family continued as uncrowned rulers of the city for many years

44. Cosimos grandson: Lorenzo, aka “The Magnificent” represented the Renaissance ideal In practice but not ordained by law. “In fact” Lorenzo de' Medici (January 1, 1449 – April 9, 1492) was an Italian statesman and de factor ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance. Clever politician that held Florence together during the difficult times in The late 1400’s

45. Fragile peace that Lorenzo held between the states ended with his death Death marked the end of Golden Age in Florence Buried in Medici Palace in Florence

46. Lorenzo, a generous patron and financial supporter of the art • He invited poets and philosophers to the Medici Palace

47. Artists learned their craft by sketching Roman statute displays in the Medici gardens

48. Florence symbolized the energy and brilliance of the Italian Renaissance • Medici’s great wealth and influence informed Florence more than any other city

49. Like the ancient city of Athens, it produced a dazzling number of poets, artists, architects, scholars, and scientists in a short span of time

50. Renaissance attained its most glorious expressions in its paintings, sculptures, and architecture.