Chapter 7        Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance

Transition to Renaissance

The Black Death

Constitutional Monarchy

Hundred Years’ War

Decline of the Church

The Arts in Transition

“social realism”

Christine de Pisan

Geoffrey Chaucer

Giotto - Ars Nova

The Italian Renaissance

cultural revival

realism and secularism

competitive enterprises

condottieri

Medici family

Renaissance Humanism

classical humanism

studia humanitatis

secular concentration

Early Renaissance Art

Early Renaissance – 1400-1490

High Renaissance – 1490-1520

Fillippo Brunelleschi

Leon Battisa Alberti

Early Renaissance Painting

picture plane

linear perspective

aerial perspective

Sandro Botticelli

Early Renaissance Sculpture

Donatello

Lorenzo Ghiberti

High Renaissance Art

restoration of Rome

architectural symmetry

Donato Bramante

Andrea Palladio

Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa

Last Supper

Embryo in the Womb

Raphael

known for clarity, harmony and unity of design

The Alba Madonna

The School of Athens

Michelangelo

David

Sistine Chapel ceiling

terribiltià

virtù

The High Renaissance in Venice

Tiziano Vecelli (Titan)

Venus of Urbino

Renaissance Music

secular music

madrigal

instrumental music

Renaissance dance

Beyond the West: The Ottoman Empire

1453 - Constantinople conquered by Muslim Turks

Istanbul

shah Suleiman (“the Magnificent”)

Golden Age of literature and art