First Thought Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. –Steve Jobs.

First Thought

• Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.– Steve Jobs

Review Questions

1. How and Why did the Renaissance begin?

2. Why Italy?

3. What is Humanism and what was it’s influence?

How did Renaissance Art reflect ideals of the time period?

Renaissance Art

• Art was to look as real as possible.

• Learned to create perspective to give depth, studied anatomy, and subtle human gestures to convey emotions.

• Art still focused on Religion, but had aspects of Greece, Rome and Secular world included.

Art Techniques

• Use of PERPSECTIVE to show 3-D using a foreground and background and a vanishing point

• Balance and geometry

• Knowledge of anatomy and biology

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

Compare M.A. vs. Ren. Art

How did Renaissance Art reflect ideals of the time period?

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

• Leonardo often called the ideal "Renaissance man“

• Mainly painter, but studied many other fields including anatomy, physics, and aerodynamics.

• He thought up plans for a helicopter, a tank, and concentrated solar power.

The Last Supper by Leonardo

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

The Vitruvian Man sketchBy Leonardo da Vinci

First Thought

• The ends justify the means. – Machiavelli

Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)

• Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer.

• Considered by many to be the best pure artist of the Renaissance.

La Pieta by Michelangelo

David by Michelangelo

The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo

Raphael Sanzio (1483 – 1520)

• Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance

• Focused on perfection and grace in his paintings and drawings.

Madonna in the MeadowBy Raphael

School of Athens by Raphael

The Trinity of Masters from the Italian Renaissance

Renaissance Architecture

• Brunelleschi most famous for the cathedral in Florence.

• Michelangelo also influential for dome of St. Peter’s Church in Rome.

• Was based on Roman and Greek architecture.

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

St. Peter’s Basilica Designed by Michelangelo

Niccolo Machiavelli• Italian diplomat in 1498

• Focused on Politics and Power.– One of the first modern Political Thinkers.

• Wrote The Prince to address politics and power.

Machiavelli• Read the exert from The

Prince on page 417. • Answer these

Questions:– Summarize why

Machiavelli feels it is better to be feared than loved

– Do you agree or disagree? And Explain why.

Machiavelli Opinion

• Does Machiavelli offer realistic advice or rationalize deceit and oppression?

First Thought

• If you could travel to any place in the world, where would it be and why?

The Italian Renaissance

• They were interested in human achievement (instead of religious or spiritual achievement)

• The figures in their artwork looked like Greek or Roman gods, i.e. perfect or ideal

The Northern Renaissance

• More interested in the early Christian period.

• The figures in their artwork were more realistic.

Both Northern & Italian Renaissance

• Interested in Greek & Roman culture (“the classics”)

• Use of perspective in paintings• Believed in humanism