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