The Renaissance

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The Renaissance

Today

Renaissance	25 min
Research your artwork	20 min
Finishing up	5 min

After today you can:

*  explain what the Renaissance was

* place the Renaissance in the correct time and space

* tell and show much more about one piece of Renaissance art

Petrarch

• 1304-1374
• Poet, scholar
• Creator of 'Dark Ages'?
• Father of humanism

So...

• Started around 1500 in Italy thanks to rich merchants ​
  
• Revival of Greek and Roman art but also philosophy ​
  
• Renaissance scholars focused on people -> humanism​
  
• Renaissance spread through Europe in the 16th century ​
  
• Helped by the printing press ​
  
• People started to doubt the word of the church WHY?

The printing press...

Johannes Gutenburg, around 1450

Haarlem: Laurens Janszoon Coster

used letter blocks in a sort of box, so you could reuse them

Assignment

1. Look for an art piece made during the Renaissance (use your book or the internet)

2. Find information: when/where/artist/why/where is it now?

3. Make a poster (online or on paper), discuss with classmate and hand it  in before next week for a bonus point.

For next week:

Read chapter 2.1 in your book

Write down words you don't know in your notebook

Write down at least three questions and mail them to me 

before Tuesday!