• The growth of cities and
trade gradually broke up
feudalism.
• Merchant families used
their wealth to help artists
and scholars explore new
ways of thinking.
• This was the beginning of
a new golden age of art,
literature, and science.
• Renaissance is a French
word meaning “rebirth.”
• “Rebirth” of classics –
(Greeks & Romans)
Europeans studied Aristotle
and Plato again
• A new way of thinking,
humanism, focused on life in
the present and emphasized
individual achievements.
• “Rebirth” in education,
change, and hope
• Beginning of scientific
thought
•Created lifelike paintings and
sculptures from studying
human anatomy
•An inventor, engineer and
naturalist
•A true “Renaissance Man”
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Legacy
• Only 17 paintings
• Notebooks with
drawings of unfinished
works:
– Submarine
– Flying machine
– Parachute
– …And much more….
The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
"Farò carri coperti, securi e inoffensibili; e quali intrando intra li nimici
con le sue artiglierie, non è si grande moltitudine di gente d'arme che non
rompessimo. E dietro a questi potranno seguire fanterie assai illese e
sanza alcuno impedimiento."
(I shall make covered chariots, that are safe and cannot be assaulted;
cars which fear no great numbers when breaking through the ranks of the
enemy and its artillery. Behind them, the infantrymen shall follow, without
fearing injury or other impediments).
•Painter and sculptor
•Expressed human emotion
(anger/sorrow/strength) in art
•Most famous work is the
mural on the ceiling of the
Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
in Rome – took over 4 years.
•David sculpture famous
Michelangelo (Buonarotti) 1475-1564
Michelangelo
Buonarroti
Michelangelo’s David – a sculpture of David right before
he was to fight Goliath (that’s a sling shot he’s holding over
his shoulder).
St. Peter’s Basilica
• (He was one of the architects)