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Where did it start?

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Italy

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Means?

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Rebirth or revival in French

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When did it happen?

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14th - 16th century

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Changes in art?

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Paintings more realistic

Fresco - painting on wet plaster

Sfumato - smokiness/blurriness

Changed from tempura to oil paintings

More lifelike

More themes added like nature and landscape

Perspective, depth

Used canvases

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Examples of famous paintings?

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The Mona Lisa (Leo)

The last supper (Leo)

The last judgement (Michelangelo)

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Changes in sculpture?

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Realism used

Study of anatomy helped with realism

More themes used

New tools used (chisel and hammer)

Marble was the main material when carving out statues

More feeling and detail on statues

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Examples of famous sculptures

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The pieta (Mike)

David (Mike)

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Changes in architecture

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Changed from gothic style to more classical inspire by Ancient Rome

Goth style - pointed windows, flying buttresses, rose windows, pointed doors, pointed arches and spire

Classical - dome, rounded windows, classical column, pediments

St Peter’s basilica is an example of classical architecture designed by Mike he died before it was completed

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Example of architecture?

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Campidogilo (Mike)

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Ptolemy?

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Greek scientist and mathematician from Egypt. He believed earth was centre of universe (church supported this)

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Copernicus?

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Polish monk, mathematician and astronomer, believed the sun was centre of universe and other planets revolves around it

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Johannes Kepler?

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Proved Copernicus right he proved that the orbit of the planets around the sun were elliptical

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Galileo?

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Mathematician and physician supported Copernicus theory,brought before the inquisition and accused of heresy had to deny his beliefs and was placed under house arrest

Born 1564 in Pisa

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The law of falling bodies

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Claimed all objects fell at the same speed (Galileo)

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The pendulum clock

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Proved that a longer pendulum swing took the same amount of time as a shorted one led to development of pendulum clock (Galileo)

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The telescope

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Invented by Galileo developed in Flanders magnification of 32 discovered jupiters 4 moons and moons uneven surface

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Changes in technology

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Changes in literature

Printing press invented (Johann Gutenberg)

First book printed was bible

Books became cheaper and spread the learning of renaissance Italy into Northern Europe

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William Shakespeare

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Actor and writer

Made: Romeo and Juliet, the merchant of Venice and Julius Caesar

Plays written in the vernacular

Shakespeare wrote 28 plays ( drew on stories form Ancient Rome and Greece)

Work spread fast due to printing press

Characters were realistic and drew on a wide range of emotions

Plays performed in the global theatre

Historically significant because he hugely influenced the English language and made 1700 new words

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Leo

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Born in the village of Vinci

Apprenticed to master verrocchio

Painted last supper in Milan

Dissected over 30 bodies (he was interested

Died in France in 1519

Used sfumato in Mona Lisa

Historically significant because

He was historically significant because His work as a scientist and inventor was excellent

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Michelangelo

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Born near Florence 1475

Apprenticed to master Ghirlandaio

Historically significant because he excelled as a sculptor painter and architect

9 paintings 42 sculptures 5 architectures

Sculpted the pieta

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (4 years)

Architected the capitone hill

Preferred sculpting to painting

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Architecture renaissance significant historic

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Many building such as the White House are influenced by classical renaissance architecture

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Tourism

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The works of art produce during the renaissance created a huge tourist industry (Sistine Chapel has 6mil visits a year)

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Reasons why renaissance started in Italy

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Ruins of ancient rome

The invention of the printing press

Fall of Constantinople - lots of scholars fled to Italy and brought learnings of Ancient Greece and Rome with them

Wealth and patronage trades

City states produced great works of art

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