2. Mongols reopen Silk Road
Marco Polo visits China, returns to Europe, writes a book
Causes people to want to go there and get Chinese goods
Positives of Black Death
No damage to farmland, goods, metals
People are happy to be alive and spend money to erase
memories of the plague
Ottoman Turks conquer Byzantine Empire
Scholars flee to Italy with ancient texts of the Greeks and
Romans
4. Renaissance architects took
inspiration from buildings of
classic antiquity. The
emphasis is placed upon
symmetry, proportion, and
regularity of parts.
Basilica of St Peter, Vatican
Rebuild during Renaissance
5. Major trading cities: Milan,
Florence, Genoa, Venice
Florence wealthy from wool and
banking
Medici family were bankers with political
power
Hired artists and architects to make
Florence great
6. Florence
Florence, the preeminent Italian
city-state in the fifteenth century,
was home to the powerful Medici
family, whose wealth derived from
their considerable banking interests
Although the Medici never ruled
Florence outright, over the course of
76 years (1418-1494), they moulded
and manipulated, controlled and
Florence Cathedral. Begun 1296 on original
cajoled, persuaded and provoked plan by Arnolfo di Cambio; redesigned 1357
the citizens of Florence and 1366 by Francesco Talenti, Andrea
Orcagna, and Neri di Fioravanti; dome 1420--
1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi; baptistery, late
11th--early 12th century; campanile ca. 1334--
1350 by Giotto, Andrea Pisano, and Francesco
Talenti. Height at bronze ball atop lantern, 350'.
15. Essential characteristic of the renaissance art, is that it develops
highly realistic linear perspective.
Creation of Adam,
fresco fragment in Sistine Chapel, Vatican
By Michelangelo
17. According to Vitruvius, if:
the human head is 1/8th of
the height of an idealized
figure
then, the human body itself
fits into the ideal musical
interval of the octave, the
interval that gives the
impression of duplicating the
original note at a higher or
lower pitch
Leonardo illustrated how the
human figure generates both
the circle and the square
18. wrote poetry, carved sculptures, painted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
29. Other Famous Domes
Il Duomo St. Peter’s St. Paul’s US capital
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38. Title: Villa Rotonda ( Villa Capra), Vicenza, Italy Source/ Museum: n/a
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39. Title: Capponi Chapel, Church of Santa Felicità, Florence Source/ Museum: n/a
Artist: Early Renaissance Chapel by Filippo Brunellschi; Tondos, Murals, and altarpiece by Pontormo Medium: fresco and oil on panel
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Date: Begun on Vignola's design in 1568; completed by della Porta c.1575-84 Size: n/a
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Hinweis der Redaktion
This map shows the spread of the movement. First it developed in Florence in roughly 14 th century, then spread to the remainder of Italy. It didn’t move north yet, for 100 years war raged in northern Europe. When the war finished, Renaissance freely spread north and to Spain and Portugal. But then, Italian states began war with each other, so many remarkable scholars and artists were pushed out into other states, which allowed Northern Renaissance to flourish even more.
Renaissance architects took inspiration from buildings of classic antiquity. The emphasis is placed upon symmetry, proportion, and regularity of parts. Architecture was an eminent part of the Renaissance, esp in Italy Renaissance architects mainly erected massive cathedrals, chapels, and churches, which shows that despite humanist ideas of the movement, the church was still a strong institution. Buildings were generally built for or requested by and sponsored by the church. In Northern Europe buildings were erected not only for ecclesiastical purposes: the renaissance came to England during the Elizabethan era, and constructions were meant for and sponsored by the crown and served diverse purposes than those of Italy St peters basilica is one of the most well known and breathtaking monument in Italy, and it was rebuilt during the renaissance
Art was mostly developed by Italian masters, such as Michelangelo and Raphael, and later imitated by masters elsewhere. It is also greatly influenced by classicism. But meanwhile masters apply new techniques, and develop highly realistic linear perspective. They still focus on ecclesiastical themes and Biblical motifs, but at the same time we can see the changing ideas of the era – notes of humanism, changing images. After the Protestant revolution, renaissance masters might have sympathized with revolutionaries, but couldn’t freely express their views for fear of being persecuted by the Roman Catholic church. The only way they had was to indirectly express themselves in their works.