RENAISSANCE RENAISSANCE ITALIAN CITY-STATE VERNACULAR THE ARTISTIC

SOCIETY LITERATURE RENAISSANCE

-It means rebirth. There were 3 states. -In the middle ages, Italy These were Imitate nature.
-People in the 1350 to Nobility: failed to create a books made by Sculpture and
1550 believed that -you had to born monarchical state. the language architecture:
they witnessed a Noble, you could - the lack of a strong spoken in Donatello- statues
rebirth of Greek and not become it. single ruler made it different of Greek and
Roman worlds. -the perfect noble possible for some city regions (French, Romans.
- Marked a new age. will serve his prince states to remain Italian or Dedicated
CHARACTERISTICS perfectly in an independent. German) themselves to study
-It was largely an effective and honest -The cities were The humanists Greek and Romans.
urban society. way. important for Italian translated New techniques in
- Powerful cities Towns People: politics. books. painting:
became centers of Merchants and CITY-STATES Important Fresco, painting
politics, economy and artisans, MILAN: people: Dante done on fresh with
social life. shopkeepers, etc. -located in the northern and Geoffrey water-based paints.
-The possibilities of They constituted Italy. Chaucer. Master of the High
enjoyment of the 15-10 percent -was one of the richest Dante´s Divine Renaissance:
material things grew of the third state. cities of Italy. Comedy. Leonardo Da Vinci:
up. Peasants: -The Visconti family took The Canterbury Draw the body
- Was an age of -Serfdom over the control of the Tales. inside
recovery of the -85-90 percent of city and established as The book of the Dissected human
disasters of 14 the third state. dukes. city bodies. bodies.
century. (plague, -the labor owed was -Sforza and the Visconti Raphael:
political instability converted to into worked to build a strong Madomas: painting
and church power) rent on land paid in state. of the Virgin Mary.
- A new view of money. -they created the tax Tried to achieve an
human being Family and system. ideal of beauty
emphasized the Marriage: VENICE: surpassing human
individual ability. -it was a great -A link between Asia and standards.
source of security. Western Europe. School of Athens
-the parents - a small group of Michelangelo:
arranged the merchants-aristocrats The ceiling of the
marriage when they govern Venice depending Sistine chapel.
2 or 3 years old. in their interests. Idealized a
-the most important -Venice Empire was reflection of divine
thing was the size of hugely powerful. beauty.
the dowry. FLORENCE:
-these marriages -Most important city in
were made to the Renaissance.
maintain the family -dominated the region of
and money. Tuscany.
-the power was in -a small-wealthy group of
the father-husband. merchants established
The clergy: control in Florence
Some of the main government.
and important -Cosimo de Medici took
leaders within over the power of the
religions. city. The Medici family
controlled behind scenes