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• fashionista and even designed her own perfume
• Patron of da Vinvi, Raphael Michaelgelo, Bellini, Correggio, and many, many others
• personification of how much good a patron can do

What patronage got you

• Nativity, by Antonio da Correggio
• 1529-1530
• 101 in. by 74 in. 

evolving values

humanism

• deep interest in what people have already achieved, as well as what they are capable of achieving in the future
• its not a coincidence that humanism resembles the Greek idea of arete

Classical (ancient Greek, ancient Roman) writings were important to them

Worldly (secular) values were essential- concerned with the here and now

Christian values were still important, but separate from secular values

Renaissance Man, and Woman

Someone who could master many fields of work

Great example of a Renaissance Woman: Isabella d'Este although women were not expected to create art, just inspired artists

The ultimate Renaissance Man: Leonardo da Vinci

painter

inventor
scientist

Artistic Styles and methods- sculpture

Scultors made realistic figures, such as Pieta

Carved from marble by Michelangelo from 1498-1499

Found in St. peter's Basilica in Vatican City

Painting

Painters used perspective- using shadow and depth create the illusion of three dimensions

They sometimes painted Frescoes

• a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, wet lime plaster
• a pigment merges with the plaster, so the painting becomes an integral part of the wall (or ceiling!)

Literature

• writers wrote in the vernacular- their native language
• Previously, most scholarly ('important") writing was in Latin or Greek
• Now, literature was more accessible to the masses
• They wrote to express their own thoughts and feelings
• Shakespeare wrote in english
• Dante Alighieri (The Divine Comedy) wrote about Hell in italian
• Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in italian
• The theme of Machiavelli's The Prince was that the aims of princes-such as glory and survival- can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends

Northern Renaissance

The ideas and attitudes about the Renaissance moved from Italy northward

Up north, the classical (Greek and Roman) learning and the humanistic approach was combined with religious ideas

Learning spread rapidly, mostly due to one major invention...

The printing press (Feat. The Movable Type)

• The Chinese had invented the printing press centuries before, but Johannes Gutenburg revolutionized it in Germany in 1439
• One of them most important and impact inventions in history