The+Italian+Renaissance+(582-585)+2

=The Italian Renaissance (582-585)=

__I.**Recovery in Western Europe: The Renaissance**__
__**A. Background Information**__ __**B.Italian Renaissance Art**__ __**C.O.**__
 * Renaissance is known as a remarkable cultural flowering or "rebirth"
 * Painters, sculptors, and architects of Renaissance era drew inspiration from Greek and Roman artists
 * Transformed European art greatly
 * Rebirth era was 1400-1600
 * Italian city-states sponsored Renaissance innovations in art and architecture
 * Masaccio (1401-1428) and Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) were famous Italian artists
 * Relied on technique of linear perspective to represent dimensions
 * Sculptors like Donatello (1386-1466) and Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564) sculpted natural poses

__**Renaissance Architecture**__ __**The Humanists**__
 * Simple and elegant buildings
 * Well known for dome buildings
 * enclosed large spaces but still open and airy
 * Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) reinvented equipment and designs for large dome; oversaw construction of dome in the cathedral of Florence
 * represented wealth in artistic/cultural affairs
 * scholars interested in humanities: literature, history, moral philosophy
 * deeply commited to Christianity
 * Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536), 1516 published first edition of Greek New Testament and revised Latin translation
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 * __Humanist Continued__**
 * prefferred the elegant and polished launuage of classical greek and roman authors, as well as the early church fathers.
 * Florentine Francesco Petrarca, also known as Petrarch traveled throughout Europe searching for manuscripts of Classical works from 1304 to 1374
 * hundreds of previously overlooked latin writings were found in libraries of Italy, Switzerland, and southern France.

__**Humanist Moral Thought**__ __**M.M**__
 * were encouraged to reconsider the Medieval teachings.
 * Believed that it was possible to lead a morally virtuous life while participating actively in world affairs.
 * The humanist thoughts represented an effort to reconcile Christian Values and Ethics

__**Renaissance Europe and the Larger World**__ > **__R.W.__**
 * The artists of this time put a lot of spice jars, foreign people, and exotic animals in their paintings.
 * Giovanni Pico della Mirandola had attempted to mix the teachings of Zoroastrianism, Plato Aristotle, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
 * His attempt was not a success.
 * however his Oration on the Dignity of Man made many European scholars want to better understand the outside world.