Focus Questions:

What caused the Renaissance?

What were the ideals and accomplishments of Renaissance artists and writers?

What Ideas and techniques resulted in more realistic and accurate portrayals of people in Renaissance paintings? (Topic 1.1, 1.2)

Objective:

• Take notes on Topics 1.1

Vocabulary:

• Renaissance Art Techniques: humanism, secularism, oil paint, perspective, anatomy, hieratic scale, egg tempera, individualism, Golden ratio , Sfumato, Perspective, Humanism, (classical, worldly, individual worth), symmetry, Sense of motion, Chiaroscuro, Geometry, Anatomy, Nudity, Secret Message. (Oil paint will not count on test).

• 1.1: humanism, humanities, Petrarch, Florence, patron, perspective, Filippo Brunelleschi, the Duomo Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolo Machiavelli

Little Questions:

1. How was Italy a favorable setting for the Renaissance? (1.1)

2. What were some of the characteristics of the Italian Renaissance? How did it develop and what role did humanism play in its development? (1.1)

3. What were the accomplishments of Renaissance artists and writers? (1.1)

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