Chapter 12 Section 2 The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance
Dec 29, 2015
Chapter 12Section 2
The Intellectual and Artistic Renaissance
Objectives:
• Explain Italian Renaissance Humanism• Compare and Contrast Greek Education to
Renaissance Education• Evaluate different Vernacular literature of the
Renaissance• Analyze changes in painting, Sculpture, and
Architecture
Humanism
• Humanism was based on the study of the classics, the literary works of the Greeks and Romans.
• Humanists studied the humanities- rhetoric, grammar, poetry, philosophy and history.
• Petrarch is referred to as the father of humanism and put an emphasis on classical Latin.– Focus on solitude, which shifted in Florence to a
more civic life.
Petrarch
Vernacular Literature
• Prominent writers-• Dante: an Italian, wrote Divine
Comedy • Chaucer: English author, The
Canterbury Tales– Story of 29 Pilgrims journey to the tomb
of Thomas a Becket.
• Christine de Pizan, a Frenchwoman known for her works in defense of women.
Education in the Renaissance
• Humanists believed that education can change human beings.
• Humanist educators stressed liberal arts curriculum and physical education.– Aim of education was not to create great
scholars, but complete citizens.
• Women were mostly absent from schools, but when attending they studied mostly religion and morals.
New Techniques in Painting
• A fresco is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster.
• Masaccio’s frescos in Florence are considered the finest masterpieces of the early Renaissance (1400-1490)
Focuses on perspective, making them look 3-D.– Two changes were stressed- the technical
and investigation of movement and anatomy.
• Sought Realism.
Masaccio- The Tribute Money
Brancacci Chapel
Sculpture and Architecture
• Donatello spent time studying in Rome and copying the statues of the Greeks and Romans.
• Filippo Brunelleschi was hired by the Medici family and designed the church of San Lorenzo.– Classical columns, rounded arches,
intended to not overwhelm
San Lorenzo
Closure:
• What did you learn today?
Objectives:
• List the Masters of the High Renaissance• Evaluate the differences between the Italian
Renaissance and the Northern Artistic Renaissance
Masters of the High Renaissance1490-1520
• Associated with three artistic giants: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
• Leonardo- mastered realistic paintings, dissected bodies.
• Raphael- madonnas, frescos in the Vatican palace.
• Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel, painter, sculptor, architect.
Leonardo da Vinci
Raphael- School of Athens
Michelangelo- Sistine Chapel
Northern Artistic Renaissance
• Northern artist of present day Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands (low countries) focused on creating images for books and wooden altarpiece panels.
• Most important school of the low countries was found in Flanders. Jan van Eyck oil painting skills were learned there.
• Albrecht Dϋrer, German artist influences by Italians.
Eyck- Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride
Durer- Adoration of the Magi
Assessment
• In Class Page 387 1,2, 4-6• Quiz Tuesday
Leonardo da Vinci
• Page 388