Please Set up your journal page like this... Open it up to the next available page and on the left copy down the questions (answer them after viewing the slide show.) Then on the Right page Copy the Thinking Maps into your Journal.

1. THE RENAISSANCE

2. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Have you ever had one of those moments

which completely changes your view on the
world?


3. BIG QUESTIONS
Copy the Questions into the “Student Questions”

Portion of your Journal, then as we look at the
Presentation, write down the answers.
What events helped bring an end to feudalism & the

middle ages?
What effect did the reopening of the Silk Roads have on

Europe?
How did Marco Polo Contribute to the Growth of

European Trade?
What is Humanism?

How did the ideas of Humanism differ from the beliefs of

the Middle Ages?

4. ORIGINS OF THE RENAISSANCE
Europe changes
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drastically during the
middle ages because
of events like, the
plague, the Nations
getting larger & the
100 yrs. War.

5. End of
Feudalism
Rise of Nations Disease Ideas

7. End of
Feudalism
Rise of Nations Disease
Strong Kings Plague
Conquer Technology Devastates
Territories Much of Europe
Feudal Peasants are
Long Bows
Lords Lose now needed to
Make Knights
work Manors.
useless
Power

9. You down
with…
Yeah you
know me!

10. So what you are saying is
that people look to the past
to guide their future?
Ideas
Return to the
Silk Road Reopens
Classical Studies
Focused on
Humanism: Man’s Marco Polo’s
People begin to
Individual rather
Potential, well Travels Inspire
experiment, explore
than on Kings &
rounded individual. People.
and create.
Institutions

12. QUESTIONS
What factors helped make Italy the birthplace of

the Renaissance?
 In what areas did Renaissance figures make
notable achievements?
 In what ways did Renaissance works differ from
those of earlier periods?
 What Groups made up the different social
classes in Renaissance Italy?
 Why did the Renaissance Influence mainly the
upper class?

13. Didn’t Have to
Italy was Center
Travel Far to
of Roman
Reach Classical
Empire.
Works.
Italy Leads
Several Good place for
the
Intersecting Ideas to
Renaissanc
Trade Routes. Spread.
e
People could
Highly spend time
creating new
Developed
styles and Ideas.
Urban Cities.
Many wealth
families become
patrons (sponsors)
of the Arts.

14. THE MEDICI
The most famous Patrons of

Florence a Family of Bankers
who made their money
banking for the pope.
Cosimo de Medici becomes

head of the bank after his
father dies, uses his
economic power to
consolidate political power.
Within five years he runs the

city without question.
He put money into the Arts

and Literature.

15. ITALY ADVERTISEMENT
Your task is to create an advertisement aimed

which will convince an artist (painter, writer,
sculptor) to travel to Italy.
 Use information gathered in the notes, to create
your advertisements.
 Be Sure to include a picture, and a short reason
why they should come.
 Think of commercials and advertisements that
you see on television and in magazines, what
techniques can you use to get people
interested?

17. FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Show’s the relationship
Early Renaissance Art
 
began when the wool between Civic Pride &
merchants guild Business & the Arts.
sponsored a
competition to
decorate a set of
Baptistery (part of the
church where they
baptize you) doors with
a relief of the sacrifice
of Isaac.

19. Lorenzo Ghiberti,
“Gates of
Paradise”

20. 1330-1450
THE EARLY RENAISSANCE

22. Masaccio

23. Focus of Early Renaissance Art
• Focuses on
Perspective: How
you see things from
where you are
standing. To give
them a 3D effect.

24. Focus of Early Renaissance Art

27. The tribute (left half), painting by
Masaccio, Brancacci chappel - Santa
Maria del Carmine church

29. Focus of Early Renaissance Art
• Natural forms, which are proportionately
correct*, Idealized forms are okay if they
are trying to show a beauty or
significance greater that what’s found in
nature.
• Study Nature to Create more Naturally.

30. Donatello

32. • Contraposto: Twisted Pose

33. Brunelleschi

35. • For the next experiment you must use
your skills to naturally recreate the
object placed on your desk.

36. Sculpture & Portraiture
Effigy of Henry II, 13th c. Bust of Lorenzo de Medici, 15th c.

37. Classical
Portraiture
Bust of Pericles, 5th c. BC

38. KINDS OF RENAISSANCE
Early: Focuses on Perspective, blends

medieval past with new science.
 Middle: Continuing Study on Perspective &
Geometery.
 High:

39. THE GREAT FLORENCE

40. THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE