“It’s still all about geography!”Claire Spencer, Granger High School, West Valley City, Utah

The Spread of the Renaissance

Why did it start in Italy?Travel to and from

the Holy Land went through Italy for most of the Crusaders.

Italian city-states provided much of the transportation as well as a thriving trade.

Ideas travel with trade goods.

What ideas came to Europe from the Middle East?

Arab scholars had preserved the works of ancient Greeks and Romans that European Christians had destroyed as heresy.

Europeans studied with Arab scholars and brought the work back to Europe.

Why was Italy the first to rediscover these ancient ideas?

Trade made the Italian city-states fabulously wealthy

Competition between the city-states for status

Available history. Italy is layered with ancient relics and ruins.

Pride in the power of ancient Rome

Humanism and Renaissance Art

Humanism was a new approach to learning that included history and languages.

Artists used Greek and Roman history and Arab mathematics to create a new realism in their work.

Italy’s trade carried the new Renaissance ideas to France, England, Spain and the German States from when the Renaissance began in Italy in roughly 1400 A.D until Italy lost its trading dominance in the 1500’s.

Trade routes from Italy to the rest of Europe

The French Renaissance

In France the Renaissance is most obvious in architecture and some of the paintings.

The Chateau de Chambord was built during the French Renaissance, using columns, domes and varying shapes that were used in ancient times in Italy.

The German RenaissanceGerman painting is

combination of Renaissance realism and German religious feeling.

This portrait of the Madonna and Child was painted by Albrecht Durer around 1520 and is a fine example.

The Renaissance in Spain

The Spanish Renaissance mostly showed up in scholarship and architecture.

The Escorial Palace was built by Philip II in the late 1500’s showing the domes and various shapes used in ancient Italian architecture.

Renaissance in England

The best evidence of the Renaissance in England are the works of William Shakespeare.

England was also strong in portrait painting and architecture.

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