By Frank Bartell, Aaron Hamlin, Melody Salgado, and Paul Ibrahim

Table of Contents

Chapter 1- Italian Renaissance Artists

Chapter 2- Northern Renaissance Artists

Chapter 3- Art Techniques

Chapter 4- Compare and Contrast

Chapter 5- Renaissance Authors

Chapter 6- Renaissance Society

Chapter 7- Technology

Chapter 8- How is the Renaissance linked to modern day

Introduction

This book includes incite on what art and artists were like during the Renaissance. In this book you will learn about Renaissance artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Albrecht Durer. The Renaissance techniques included in this book are the fresco and the tempera. This book also includes the Renaissance authors Macchiarelli and Sir Philip Sidney. The inventions included in this book are the printing press and the clock.This book compares and contrasts the Italian and Northern Renaissance, and how the Renaissance is linked to modern day. This book also answers the question of how the Renaissance is the beginning of the modern world and how it is reflected in modern society.

Chapter I

Leonardo da Vinci: Both a scientist and a Renaissance painter, Invented the first helicopter, and was given a nickname: The Renaissance Man. (1452-1519)

Michelangelo: Studied both Anatomy and Renaissance art. At an early age he had already started to make marble statues, such as “David” and the “Pieta”. He was also considered a painter. He painted the ceiling of the sistine chapel. He died at the age of 80 years old. (1475-1564)

Northern Renaissance- Ideas from the Italian Renaissance spread to the north and caused a major movement involving humanism. The northern renaissance included the German, French, Polish, and English Renaissances, the Renaissance in the Low Country, and other nationalised movements.

Albrecht Dürer- a painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance, who created a great amount of woodcut prints, including his Apocalypse series, although later in life he did start making watercolour paintings and self-portraits.

Chapter II

Apocalypse-The Martyrdom of St. John

Chapter III

Fresco- The Method of painting water based pigments on freshly applied plaster, usually on wall surfaces.

Tempera- Painting executed with pigment ground in a water miscible medium. Tempera came from the verb “temper”.

Chapter IV

Similarities Differences

● Used different Subject matters. Italiansused mythology, while Northern Renaissance artists used Domestic interior and portraits.Used differed Styles of Art the Italian artists made works that were Symmetrical, balanced, good sense of mass, linear perspective.

● Italian Renaissance took place in Italy,was not as religious, focused on humanism, fresco and Rome and Greece.

● Northern Renaissance was within Europe,was more religious , focused on color, detail, sciences, mathematics, but not as much humanism.They did oil painting on wood.The Northern Renaissance was also known as the gradual change from the Medieval Era into the renaissance.

Italian artists vs Renaissance artists.

Both Italian and Northern Renaissance Artists used Religious scenes in their artwork.

Both Italian and Northern Renaissance Artists used oil for their works.

Both Italian and Northern Renaissance were devoted to the Church.

Both Italian and Northern Renaissance influenced other humanists.

School of Athens by Raphael

Chapter VNiccolò Machiavelli-“Born on May 3, 1469, in Florence, Italy, Niccolò Machiavelli

was a diplomat for 14 years in Italy's Florentine Republic during the Medici family's

exile. When the Medici family returned to power in 1512, Machiavelli was dismissed

and briefly jailed. He then wrote The Prince, a handbook for politicians on the use of

ruthless, self-serving cunning, inspiring the term ‘Machiavellian’ and establishing

Machiavelli as the ‘father of modern political theory.’ He also wrote several poems

and plays. He died on June 21, 1527, in Florence, Italy.”(Biography.com Editors)

Philip Sidney- “born on November 30, 1554, at his family's state at Penshurst in Kent, England. From his youth, Sidney was respected for his high-minded intelligence, and frequently provided diplomatic service to Queen Elizabeth I as a Protestant political liaison. His opposition to her French marriage earned her displeasure, however, and he later left court and began writing his poetical works. In 1586, Sidney accompanied his uncle, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to the Lowlands to defend the Protestants and was wounded in battle, dying a few weeks later, on October 17. Considered a national hero, Sidney was given a lavish funeral. When his poetry was subsequently published, he became lauded as one of the great Elizabethan writers.”(Biography.com Editors)

Chapter VI

Some of the aspects of the Renaissance Society are individualism and humanism. Individualism is a social theory that favors the freedom of actions instead of collective or state control. Humanism was a Renaissance cultural movement which moved away from medieval scholarship, and instead, focused interest in Ancient Latin and Greek thought. These two movements were heavily prevalent throughout the Renaissance, and some of these ideas are still around today.

Chapter VII

Printing press (1456)- Invented by Johannes Gutenberg. The printing press is a machine for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print surface faster than printing by hand. Brought interest to the spread of knowledge.

The Clock (1300)- Made by the Chinese in the 1300’s when mechanical clocks began to appear, the clocks rang every hour. started to be used by churches. soon had faces and was used in houses.

Chapter VIII

“The Renaissance had a profound influence on the course of the development of modern American society, culture, and, since it is a natural extension of both, artistic expression. The Renaissance influence in America brought about a new focus on humanism and as a result, a subsequent turning away from the dominant ideals put forth by the church. Although religion was still of the greatest influence throughout the period of the Renaissance, the dawning recognition of human potential and scientific inquiry shaped the course of Western history and does still influence contemporary American culture today. Principles of realism, particularly as they appeared in terms of art and literature have remained vital in all aspects of American society and figures such as Boccaccio, da Vinci, Machiavelli, and others live on and influence the way we view our world today.” - Articlemyriad.com

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