Renaissance

Renaissance

1. Comes from the french word 'rebirth'

   • First used in 19th century by Jules Michelet

2. Rebirth in the ideas of the classical greeks and romans

3. Changes in art

   • Medival art
     • No vanishing point
     • No perspective
     • All the faces of the people look the same
     • Paintings mainly symbolic- they don't look real
     • Mostly religious
     • Two dimensional
     • Limited or selected colours
   • Renaissance art
     • Paintings look real
     • Perspective
     • Vanishing point
     • People look different from each other
     • Shadows, light and shade
     • Not just religious
     • Three dimensional
     • Wide range of colours

4. Reasons for the Renaissance

   • Trade and Industry
   • Universities
   • Banking
   • Fall of Constantinople
   • The Pope and the Church
   • Ruins from ancient world
   • City-states rivalry
   • Rich and powerful rulers
   • Political changes
   • Printing
   • Contact with Islamic communities

5. Famous Renaissance people

   • Cosimo de' Medici
     • Born: 1389 Died: 1464
     • In jail, he bribed people to get the charges dropped
     • His father, Giovanni had been one of the most important men in Florance
     • When he died they wrote 'Pater patriae' on his tomb which means 'Father of the country'
     • 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
     • He put his friends and members of his family in important roles
     • In 1433 he was arrested as a danger to the people of Florance
     • The Pope told him to pay for a new church building, so he did
   • Lorenzo de' Medici
     • Born:1449 Died:1492
     • He had lots of enimies
     • He was attackedby the Pazzi plotters
     • He was careles and didn't worry about becoming too powerful
     • He tortured and excecuted the Pazzi plotters

6. When was the Renaissance?

   • 1300 AD to 1600 AD