Renaissance

Renaissance

Comes from the french word 'rebirth'
1. First used in 19th century by Jules Michelet
Rebirth in the ideas of the classical greeks and romans
Changes in art
1. Medival art
  1. No vanishing point
  2. No perspective
  3. All the faces of the people look the same
  4. Paintings mainly symbolic- they don't look real
  5. Mostly religious
  6. Two dimensional
  7. Limited or selected colours
2. Renaissance art
  1. Paintings look real
  2. Perspective
  3. Vanishing point
  4. People look different from each other
  5. Shadows, light and shade
  6. Not just religious
  7. Three dimensional
  8. Wide range of colours
Reasons for the Renaissance
1. Trade and Industry
2. Universities
3. Banking
4. Fall of Constantinople
5. The Pope and the Church
6. Ruins from ancient world
7. City-states rivalry
8. Rich and powerful rulers
9. Political changes
10. Printing
11. Contact with Islamic communities
Famous Renaissance people
1. Cosimo de' Medici
  1. Born: 1389 Died: 1464
  2. In jail, he bribed people to get the charges dropped
  3. His father, Giovanni had been one of the most important men in Florance
  4. When he died they wrote 'Pater patriae' on his tomb which means 'Father of the country'
  5. He was a good man that had lots of money, he became greedy and powerful and was banished from Florance. ahe returned later and decided to do good things for everyone
  6. He put his friends and members of his family in important roles
  7. In 1433 he was arrested as a danger to the people of Florance
  8. The Pope told him to pay for a new church building, so he did
2. Lorenzo de' Medici
  1. Born:1449 Died:1492
  2. He had lots of enimies
  3. He was attackedby the Pazzi plotters
  4. He was careles and didn't worry about becoming too powerful
  5. He tortured and excecuted the Pazzi plotters
When was the Renaissance?
1. 1300 AD to 1600 AD

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