Renaissance Period

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Renaissance Timeline

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Late 1300s to Mid 1600s

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Renaissance Themes

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Resurgence of nationalism and humanism

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Humanism during the Renaissance

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There was a shift from the intense religion and more focus on the human experience.

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Humanism’s Influence

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Humanism led to scientific exploration, and Christian Humanism

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Intellectualism Influence

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Education became really important sparking a ton on universities

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Protestant Reformation

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Due to the newfound interest in reason people began to question the Catholic church and its corruption, this movement was led by Martin Luther.

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Main Themes of Renaissance

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Classicism
Humanism
Rationalism
University Expansion
Individualism
Self-Fashioning
Reformation

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Self-Fashioning

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An extension of individualism where people started to use there fashion and etiquette as a form of self-expression.

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The Age of Exploration

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European maritime efforts led to cultural influences from all over the world.

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The Silk Road

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Before ships were advanced enough to go all over, the tradeline that stretched across Asia/Europe is how the cultural influences came.

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Religion in Renaissance Period

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The Catholic church suffered a decline in influence & prestige.

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Papal Infallibility

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A principle challenged by Martin Luther that the pope can never be wrong.

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Philosophy in Renaissance

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Philosophers were into classical humanism, an emphasis on engagement with the world.

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Machiavelli’s “The Prince” (Literature)

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Is a treatise on how to govern, “by any means necessary.”

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“The Courtier” (Literature)

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Story about a ball were the men use fashion and intellect to try to present themselves as the best bachelor.

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Renaissance Theater

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Italian theater had the first comedies, reason was the central theme, and the church was criticized more.

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Renaissance Theater

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Theater became more complex, literary devices started being used.

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Dialect
Blank Verse
Prose

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1. Using different languages to represent people
2. Meted poetry
3. Common/non-poetic speech

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Soliloquy
Allegory

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1. Character speaks aloud to themselves so audience knows thoughts
2. Theme manifests physically

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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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Story about a prince who’s uncle came and took over, he is depressed and has to choose to ether kill the uncle or himeself, uses soliloquy.

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Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus

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Story about a man that sold his soul for 24 years of control over a demon, at the end chose not to repent and got dragged to hell. Uses allegory (pride personified).

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William Shakespeare

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Was a poet & actor in addition to a writer, had is own drama co. with men only due to women not allowed to do theatre during that time.

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Renaissance Art/Architecture

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Shifted away from embellished churches/cathedrals and moved to fusing math/science w/ art.

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Renaissance Art

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Artists were focused on capturing the natural world and human body, vested in perspective and how the eye perceives depth and light.

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Linear Perspective

Chiaroscuro

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1. Illusion of depth using lines
2. Illusion of depth using light/shade

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Sculpture

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Main theme was classical humanism, still about the church/biblical themes, but incorporating new ideas centered around humanism

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Sculpture

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Human bodies were no longer stiff, now showed realistic movement, faces became a lot more expressive.

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Michelangelo’s David

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Naked guy, looking left, left arm/leg bent, placing weight on right leg.

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Leonardo Da Vinci

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Mona Lisa and Vitruvian Man (all the arms) / Renaissance Man

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Raphael’s School of Athens

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Painting that looks like if a bunch of angels were at university in heaven, and were at the quad. “God” is in the middle, dark skin Jesus is teaching, and Judas is looking down fake studying.

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Renaissance Music

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Departed from the church hymns of the classical period and started getting more secular.

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Madrigal

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Key innovation of renaissance music, marriage of words to musical notes (began in Italy)

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Renaissance Musical Themes

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Emotion, humanism, crescendos were happy tunes, low slow decrescendo were about loss and death.

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Cultural Exchange

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Age of Exploration, a bunch of ships sailing all over bringing back cultural influence particularly w/ Asian silks and African art and Islamic glass making.

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Renaissance Inventions

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Compass helped w/ sailing
Printing Press, allowed for mass communication
Viola de Gamba (instrument)