Bell Ringer

Explain how the Inca Empire was complex (using specific examples.)

The RenaissanceEssential Question: How was the

Renaissance a rebirth of Classical culture and how was it a departure from it?

Renaissance – French for “rebirth”

*Rebirth of what?

Renaissance – French for “rebirth”

*Rebirth of what?

Greek and Roman Culture

Renaissance begins in Italy

*Why?

Center of Roman Empire

Wealthy trade centers

-patrons – financial supporters (Medici Family)

Humanism – study of classical culture, focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious issues.

*focused on Humanities – grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and history, based on Greek and Roman texts

Perspective – technique used to make paintings look 3-D*closer objects larger than further objects

Architecture – back to Greco-Roman domes and arches

Leonardo da Vinci-Ideal Renaissance Man (painting, botany, optics, music, architecture, and engineering)

-Best known for: Mona Lisa & Last Supper

Michelangelo Buonaroti(sculptor, engineer, painter, architect, and poet)

Best known for: statue of David, ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

*Raphael?

*Donatello?

Niccolo Machiavelli – wrote The Prince-guide to gain and maintain power-end justifies the means

Renaissance Writers

William Shakespeare – created 37 plays *1700 words appeared for the first time in his works (bedroom, lonely, generous, gloomy, heartsick, hurry, and sneak)

Miguel de CervantesDon Quixote – mocks medieval chivalry

Johannes Gutenberg -builds Printing Press *what book is printed first?-explosion of knowledge-books now can be printed in vernacular – everyday language of ordinary people

Essential Question

How was the Renaissance a rebirth of Classical culture and how was it a departure from it?