Michelangelo Buonarroti
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1475—1564
Painter, Sculptor, and Architect
Second most famous artist of the Renaissance
Video
David
Tomb of
Julius II
Tomb of
Giuliano
de' Medici
Tomb of
Lorenzo de'
Medici
La Pieta
The
Sistine
Chapel
Ceiling
St. Peter’s
Basilica
Raphael Sanzio
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1483-1520
The best painter of them all
Sandro Botticelli
Renaissance Architecture
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Revival of Roman Architecture with its
symmetry and proportions
Orderly columns, arches and domes
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/sy
mmetry.html
Replaced Gothic structures
St. Peter’s Basilica
Donato
Bramante Tempietto, San
Pietro in
Montorio,
Rome.
San
Luigi dei
Francesi
Gothic Architecture
Renaissance Literature
Renaissance Literature
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Many Renaissance authors wrote in the
vernacular- the native language of a people
Authors before this wrote in Latin
This makes literature more readily available to
all people
Authors wrote to express themselves and tried
to show the individuality of the subjects
Renaissance Literature
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Francesco PetrarchFather of Humanism
Wrote in both Italian and
Latin
Wrote 14 line poems
called sonnets
Most famous sonnets
about Laura
Believed to be Laura de
Noves
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It is believed she died
from the plague
Sonnet #56
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Se col cieco desir che 'l cor distrugge
contando l'ore no m'inganno io stesso,
ora mentre ch'io parlo il tempo fugge
ch'a me fu inseme et a mercé promesso.
Qual ombra è sí crudel che 'l seme adugge,
ch'al disïato frutto era sí presso?
et dentro dal mio ovil qual fera rugge?
tra la spiga et la man qual muro è messo?
Lasso, nol so; ma sí conosco io bene
che per far piú dogliosa la mia vita
amor m'addusse in sí gioiosa spene.
Et or di quel ch'i' ò lecto mi sovene,
che 'nanzi al dí de l'ultima partita
huom beato chiamar non si convene.
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If, through blind desire that destroys the heart,
I do not deceive myself counting the hours,
now, while I speak these words, the time nears
that was promised to pity and myself.
What shade is so cruel as to blight the crop
which was so near to a lovely harvest?
And what wild beast is roaring in my fold?
What wall is set between the hand and grain?
Ah, I do not know: but I see only too well
that in joyous hope love led me on
only to make my life more sorrowful.
And now I remember words that I have read:
before the day of our final parting
we should not call any man blessed
Niccolo Machiavelli
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Wrote “The Prince”
One of the most
important books of all
time
Helped change peoples
ideas about authority
and leadership
Still widely read today.
The Prince On Religion
One significant way in which Machiavelli
contributed to the new confidence in
man was in his separation of politics
from religion and his challenge to
the secular authority of the Church.
The human activity of politics,
Machiavelli believed,can be isolated
from other forms of activity and
treated in its own autonomous
terms. In a word politics can be
divorced from theology, and
government from religion. No longer
is the state viewed as having a
moral end or purpose.
Its end is not the shaping of human
souls, but the creation of conditions
which would enable men to fulfill
their basic desires of
self-preservation, security, and
happiness. Religion has the vital
function of personal salvation, of
serving as an important instrument
of social control--a basis for civic
virtue rather than moral virtue.
-Anthony Parel,
The Political Calculus, 1972
Themes from The Prince
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If you injure someone only
lightly they can still take
revenge, if you crush them
they can not revenge.
"We have not seen great
things done in our time except
by those who have been
considered mean; the rest
have failed. "
“A prince should not deviate
from what is good, if that is
possible, but he should know
how to do evil, if that is
necessary.”
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“The answer is of course, that
it would be best to be both
loved and feared. But since
the two rarely come together,
anyone compelled to choose
will find greater security in
being feared than in being
loved.”
How To Rule
The Medici’s
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Probably the most influential and
important family of the
Renaissance.
A good summary of the
Renaissance can be seen by
looking at them.
Acquired great wealth through
banking and trade
By 1400 they are one of the
richest families in Italy, if not
Europe
The Medici Family
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Giovanni de’ Medici
Medici’s gain
prominence under his
reign
Supports his friends bid
to become Pope, when
he wins the Medici family
gets the Church’s
account
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Cosimo de Medici
Son of Giovanni
Takes over after his
father dies
Becomes an important
patron to many artists
during the early
Renaissance
“Godfather of the
Renaissance”
Lorenzo de’ Medici
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The Magnificent
Survives assassination
attempts and takes
Medici family to new
heights
Patron to Leonardo,
Michelangelo, Bottecelli
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True Renaissance Man
Loves Wine, Women,
and Art
Medici Popes
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Giovanni de’ Medici
Becomes a Cardinal at
13
Corrupt- Sells jobs to
friends
Becomes Pope Leo X at
38 yrs old
Failed to control Martin
Luther
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Guilio de Medici
Becomes Pope Clement
VII after his cousin Leo X
dies
Trying to hold on to a
crumbling empire.
Can’t deal with Henry
VIII
Rome is sacked under
his watch