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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
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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Times Quizzes
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Movers and Shakers of the Renaissance and Reformation