Renaissance

Renaissance

Lesson 2: Ideas and Art of the Renaissance

Italian Renaissance Humanism
* Intellectual and artistic accomplishments of the period.
* Humanis- an intellectual movement of theRenaissance based on the study of the humanities, which included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, moral philosophy, and history.

Development of Humanis
* Humanism was based on the study of theclassics, the literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
* Francesco Petrarch is often called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism.
* Petrarch also began the humanist emphasis on using pureclassical Latin.
* Humanists used the works of two Roman writers as models (Cicero for prose and Virgil for poetry.)
* Humanists in the early fifteenth century took a new interest in civic life.* Byzantine and Islamic influences.

Vernacular Literature
* Many writers used Vernacular (the language of everyday speech)
* The Works of Dante Alighieri and Christine de Pizan madeVernacular popular.
* Dante wrote the Divine Comedy

Renaissance Education
* Education became secular (less focused on Religion)
* The core of education were liberal studies.
* Accordingto the humanists, students should learn history, ethics, public speaking, grammar, logic, poetry, mathematics, astronomy, and music.
* It was a preparation for life.
* They started printing.(by the German printer Johannes Gutenberg)

Italian Renaissance Art
* Italian Artists imitated Nature.
* New Human Focused View

New techniques in printing
* The Renaissance period inart truly began with Tommaso di Giovanni, called Masaccio 
* A fresco is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints. 
* Perspective made the illusion of 3 dimensions.Sculpture and architecture
* Renaissance sculptors and architects sought to express a human-centered world. 
* The sculptor Donatello studied the statues of the Greeks and Romans. His works...