Outline: The Renaissaince in Italy

 The Black Death

 The Black Plague

 Map  Plague in Europe

 Boccaccio: The Decameron

 The Black Death at Idaho State

 The Plague at the Decameron Web
 

I.  Background
     A.  Italian city-states: The Renaissance and the Signorie
           built on the success of the bourgeoisie
           nobles moved into cities and supported capitalist ventures
     B. trade across the Mediterranean and into the Middle East
     C. prosperity made middle and upper classes supporters of their cities
           patrons of the arts
     D. Florence --  Florence in the 15th Century
          i. the class struggle between the new class of bankers and merchants vs.  the poor:
          ii.  the revolt of the Ciompi 1378
          iii. The Medici family  The Medici Family         The Medici Family
                    a. banking
                    b. wool
                    c. the role of money -- the Florentine florin, the Venetian Ducat
                    d. the printing press in the Renaissance
                    e. Medici patronage of the art
                    f. Lorenzo and the patronage of Michelangelo , Ficino, many others.
II. Renaissance Art --  The Italian Renaissance
       Giotto  -- humanized painting
       Sandro Botticelli    --    More Botticelli paintings
      Donatello
      Brunelleschi
      Leonardo da Vinci          Drawings of da Vinci
      Raphael
      Michaelangelo     Michelangelo Buonarroti
      Titian
      Architecture -- Italy in the 15th Century
III Italian Universities
     Bologna
     northern Europeans frequently studied law, medicine, and theology in Italy
 IV Humanism
 

 The Decameron Web
 Niccolo Machiavelli
 

 Sistine Chapel Virtual Tour

  The Northern Renaissance

I.   the spread of printing        The Infancy of Printing
        1454 Johan Gutenberg  printed the Bible --  The Gutenberg Bible
I.  Christian Humanism
II.   Erasmus :    most widely known scholar in Europe
     A. biography
     B. Works
III.  Thomas More    English Humanist -- The St. Thomas More Web Page
     A. Utopia
     B. The English Renaissance
         Gothic Painting
IV.  Northern Art:
     A.  Rembrandt
          i. biography
          ii. self portrait
          iii. The Night Watch
     B.  Albrecht Durer

      C. Hieronymous Bosch

      D. Jan van Eyck

      E.   Bruegel
           From van Eyck to Bruegel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
 

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         Northern Renaissance ArtWeb

         Political Movers and Shakers of the Renaissance and Reformation