The document summarizes major figures and developments in Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy. It discusses how the Medici family, led by Giovanni de' Medici and his son Cosimo, made Florence the cultural center of Renaissance Europe through their patronage of the arts. Individual genius was allowed to flourish during the Renaissance in Italy. Key Renaissance artists mentioned include Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. The document also identifies Josquin Des Pres as the musical composer most closely associated with the High Renaissance.

1. • Identify major figures in Renaissance and Mannerism
(Italy) humanities and their works. (CO1)
Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
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2. Giovanni di Bicci de’ Medici,
founder of the Medici bank.
 The Early Renaissance, which occurred
during the fifteenth century, was a time
when old ideas were challenged and new
ideas began to take hold. One reason for
this upheaval was the spread of the
bubonic plague, which undermined
traditional belief systems and spawned
widespread social unrest and turmoil.
 The Medici family, led by Giovanni de’
Medici and his son Cosimo, along with
Cosimo’s grandson, Lorenzo, made
Florence the cultural center of
Renaissance Europe through their
financial support of the arts. The Medici’s
were humanists, believing in the worth
and dignity of the individual, and valuing
the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome,
and especially the works of Plato.

3. Individual genius, which was viewed as the
worldly manifestation of divine truth, was
allowed to flourish during Renaissance Italy as
never before in Western culture.
Sculptors such as Alberti
and Donatello used
linear perspective in
organizing their
compositions.
Individual Genius

4. Renaissance architects
such as Brunelleschi and
Alberti demonstrated a
renewed interest in
ancient Roman models,
with their mathematically
determined proportions
and emphasis on
orderliness, clarity, and
logic of construction.
Individual Genius
Frank, K. View of the Duomo's Dome,
Florence. 2008. JPEG.
Zacchi, Anna. Sant Andrea Straight. 2006. JPG.

5. Renaissance artists such
as Masaccio and Piero
emphasized the art of
perspective, the
principles of which had
been little used since
ancient Roman times.
Individual Genius

6. Music in the Renaissance
 The greatest influence on early
Renaissance music was Guillaume
Dufay, who wrote many motets,
compositions that set a sacred text to
polyphonic choral music. One factor
that led to the popularity of music
during this period was the rise of music
printing.
 The most famous writer of this period
was Petrarch. His sonnets introduced
one of the predominant themes of the
Renaissance lyric poetry: the expression
of the speaker’s love for a woman, and
the complexity of love.
 Florence’s domination of Italian culture
ended in 1494 when Dominican friar
Girolamo Savonarola took control of the
city.

7.  One famous artist of the
High Renaissance was
Leonardo da Vinci,
painter of The Last
Supper and Mona Lisa.
He did not share the
Florentine taste for
classical humanist
scholarship.
Leonardo da Vinci

8.  Pope Nicholas V helped a
reborn Rome replace
Florence as the cultural
center of the Renaissance,
Raphael, considered the
epitome of High
Renaissance painters,
became particularly famous
for his paintings of the
Madonna.
 Although Michelangelo
considered himself a
sculptor, he was compelled
by Pope Julius II to paint the
ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Popes and Great Artists

9.  The musical composer
most closely identified with
the High Renaissance is
Josquin Des Pres,
composer and director of
the Sistine Choir.
 Two famous writers of the
period were Castiglione,
who supported the tenets
of Renaissance humanism,
and Machiavelli, who
challenged those tenets.
Music and Writing

10. Resources
Frank, K. View of the Duomo's Dome, Florence. 2008. JPEG.
Zacchi, Anna. Sant Andrea Straight. 2006. JPG.
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