6-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the development and the impact of the Renaissance on Europe and the rest of the world

The Italian Renaissance

• 6-5 The student will demonstrate an understanding of the development and the impact of the Renaissance on Europe and the rest of the world.

Renaissance

• **Renaissance means “rebirth”. It refers to the period that followed Europe’s Middle Ages.

• **Money for the Renaissance came from trade.

• One big idea that came from this

• time is that all humans were important

• no matter how much money they had

• and deserved an education.

How the Renaissance Began

• **Increased trade with Asia

• brought wealth to Italian trade

• cities, leading to the Renaissance.

• The growth of wealthy trading

• cities in Italy led to a rebirth of

• the arts and learning called the

• Renaissance.

Trading Centers

• **Four northern Italian cities became trading centers.

• Florence
• Genoa
• Milan
• Venice
• **The cities of Milan &
• Florence were manufacturing
• centers. Venice & Genoa
• were port cities on the
• Mediterranean Sea, where
• the goods & services flowed.

Look at the map & find the major trading cities in Italy. Can you list the four major cities?

• Look at the map & find the major trading cities in Italy. Can you list the four major cities?

• Florence
• Genoa
• Milan
• Venice

Banking & The Medici Family

• Bankers kept money for

• merchants all over Europe

• & made money by charging

• interest, a fee that lenders

• charge people who borrow

• money from them.

• **The Medici family were

• the greatest of the Florence

• bankers. They were the

• richest family in Florence.

• Their fortune gave them

• political power as well.

**Cosimo Medici wanted Florence to be the most beautiful city in the world. He hired artists to decorate his palace.

• **Cosimo Medici wanted Florence to be the most beautiful city in the world. He hired artists to decorate his palace.

• **He also valued education,

• built libraries & collected books.

• His workers needed to read, write,

• & understand math.

• The Medici family were patrons

• of the arts.

• **Patrons are sponsors &

• supporters of the arts. They would

• give money to support the artists

• or have the artists create works.

The Medici Family

• This is a portrait of Giuliano de Medici by Raphael. There are several portraits of the Medici family because they were patrons of the arts.

• What is a patron?

Humanism

• During the Middle Ages, people were

• devoted to religious study.

• **By the 1300s, scholars began to

• study subjects such as history, literature,

• public speaking, & art. These subjects

• were called the humanities, and they led

• to the thinking and learning known as

• humanism.

• Humanism is a way of thinking &

• learning that stresses the importance

• of human abilities & actions.

Changes from Humanism

• **Art & literature had only been

• based on religion, but now they

• would focus on humans, politics,

• religion, & various styles of writing

• & art.

• **Artist began painting portraits,

• anatomy of the human body was

• being studied & human intelligence

• was recognized, an interaction

• between subject & ruler began,

• ordinary people (sons of middle

• class families) were educated.

**Another BIG change was

• **Another BIG change was

• books were being published in

• the language the people spoke.

• **Vernacular is the term given

• when the author writes in the

• language the people use so they

• can read it.

New Studies

• Anatomy was one new subject that was being studied by people during this time.

• What are some other subjects that were studied? What were these called?

Review

• Renaissance means rebirth.

• Money in the Italian Renaissance came from trade.

• The big idea from this time is

• that all humans were important

• no matter how much money they

• had or who they were.

• Education became the means

• to a better life.