Intro To The Renaissance

1300 - 1600
Renaissance (means rebirth)
- Cultural movement which
revived art, learning, religious
reform & the scientific
revolution.

- Origins:
1. Crusades spurred demand for
middle east goods
2. Trade & accrued wealth, hurt
the Feudal System
3. Plague- led to a demand for
labor - serfs went to cities for
work
Renaissance (rebirth)
Italian Renaissance -
Begins in Italy

Why?
1. thriving cities
2. Rich merchants
- Medici Family - funded
ideas & art
3.“Classical” Past (Roman
Culture)
 Botticelli, Birth of Venus, 1482
Humanism
• intellectual movement that
focused on human
achievement rather than
religion.
- results: artists, architects, writers
& scientists were admired

Humanities - education involving

history, literature, grammar &
rhetoric.
Arts
• Painted in
realistic style.
- perspective -
showed 3-
dimensions
on a flat Vanishing Point

surface
- went back to
classicalism
Medieval Art
Medieval Renaissance