People of the Renaissance

1. PEOPLE OF THE
RENAISSANCE
UNIT : THE RENAISSANCE
7TH GRADE WORLD HISTORY
BY MR. SANCHEZ

2. STANDARDS AND OBJECTIVES
• 7.8 Students analyze the origins, accomplishments, and geographic diffusion of the
Renaissance.
5.Detail advances made in literature, the arts, science, mathematics, cartography,
engineering, and the understanding of human anatomy and astronomy (e.g., by Dante
Alighieri, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo di Buonarroti Simoni, Johann Gutenberg,
William Shakespeare).
Objectives
Students will be able to identify some of the advances made during this time period.
Students will be able to identity some prominent figures during this time period and
their contributions.

3. WHAT ABOUT THE RENAISSANCE?

5. STOP AND THINK!!
• Based off the last two slides what were some of the areas of growth during the
Renaissance? (ex the Arts)

6. DANTE ALIGHIERI
• An Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political
thinker
• Best known for the monumental epic poem La Commedia (The Divine Comedy)
- A landmark in Italian literature and among the greatest works of all medieval
European literature
- Drew from Dante’s own experience of exile from his native city of Florence
- Is an allegory taking the journey through hell, purgatory, and heaven
- Is a profound Christian vision of humankinds temporal and eternal destiny

7. LEONARDO DA VINCI
• An Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineers
• Most prominent figure whose skill and intelligence epitomized the Renaissance
humanist ideal
• Painted the Last Supper and Mona Lisa two of the most popular influential
paintings
• His scientific inquiry and mechanical inventiveness were ahead of his time

8. MICHELANGELO DI BUONARROTI SIMONI
• An Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet
• Exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art
• Considered one of the greatest artists of all time
• A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the
most famous
• Painted the famous Sistine Chapel

9. JOHANN GUTENBERG
• A German craftsman and inventor
• He originated a method of printing from movable type
• Gutenberg’s printing press was considered a history- changing invention because
it made books widely accessible and ushering in an “information revolution”

10. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
• An English poet, dramatist, and actor
• Often called the English national poet
• Considered to be the greatest dramatist of all time
• His works are read and performed in more countries than ever before

11. STOP AND THINK!!
• Who is one figure of the Renaissance and what did they contribute?

12. RAPHAEL
• An Italian painter and architect
• Best known for his Madonna's and his large figure compositions in the Vatican
• Widely regarded as the leading artistic figure of Italian High Renaissance
classicism

13. TITIAN
• An Italian Painter
• Known as the greatest Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school
• His reputation has in the intervening centuries never suffered a decline
• Lomazzo declared him “the sun amidst small stars not only among the Italians but
all the painters in the world.”

14. NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
• A Polish astronomer
• Proposed that the planets have the Sun as the fixed point to which their motions
are to be referred
• Created a concept of a universe in which the distances of the planets from the
sun bore a direct relationship to the size of their orbits
• At the time his heliocentric idea was controversial
• Seen as the initiator of the Scientific Revolution

15. TICKET OUT THE DOOR
• Now that you have learned about some important figures of The Renaissance
who do you think is the most important and why? Why is the Renaissance an
important time in history? (What came out of it?)