Renaissance

Renaissance

Florence was the cradle of a new era. There emerges a new image of man, a mindset that we call humanism

Florence S. XIV-XVI

The Printing Press

He printed the bible, then divine comedy.

Johann Gutenberg

Renaissance Art

Renaissance art wanted to show joy in human beauty and life’s pleasures. Renaissance art is more lifelike than in the art of the Middle Ages.

Perspective

Leonardo da Vinci

(April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)

He was an excellent painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer.

Mona Lisa

Last Supper

Michelangelo Buonarroti

He was one of the greatest artists of all time. Like Leonardo, Michelangelo was a “Renaissance Man” of many talents. He was a great sculptor, a painter, and an architect.

David The Pieta

When Michelangelo did a statue of Moses, he included veins and muscles in the arms and legs. He also did the same in David’s sculpture.

The condottiere Gattamelata in Padua by Donatello

Niccolo Machiavelli(3 May 1469 – 21 June

1527) He was one of the most influential writers of the Renaissance. He believed that the only way to keep united to Italy was that its leader was ruthless.

“the end justifies the means“ “it is better to be feared than

loved”

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RENAISSANCE MUSICRenaissance music is European music written during the Renaissance. Defining the beginning of the musical era is difficult, given the gradually adopted "Renaissance" characteristics: musicologists have placed its beginnings from as early as 1300 to as late as the 1470s.

Periods of European art music

Early

Medieval   (500–1400)

Renaissance (1400–1600)

Baroque (1600–1760)

Common practice

Baroque (1600–1760)

Classical (1730–1820)

Romantic (1815–1910)

Modern and contemporary

20th-century (1900–2000)

Contemporary (1975–present)

21st-century (2000–present)

Composers of the Renaissance—timeline

INSTRUMENTS OF THE RENAISSANCE

STRINGS PERCUSSION

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

Michelangelo worked on many projects that had been started by other men, most notably in his work at St Peter's Basilica, Rome. The Campidoglio, designed by Michelangelo during the same period, rationalized the structures and spaces of Rome's Capitoline Hill. Its shape, more a rhomboid than a square, was intended to counteract the effects of perspective. The major Florentine architectural projects by Michelangelo are the unexecuted façade for the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence and the Medici Chapel (Capella Medicea) and Laurentian Library there, and the fortifications of Florence. The major Roman projects are St. Peter's, Palazzo Farnese, San Giovanni dei Florentine, the Sforza Chapel (Capella Sforza) in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Porta Pia and Santa Maria degli Angeli.

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RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

David Rubiano Wendy Gonzales

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