2. Table of Contents Architecture Science & Technology Music Class System Table Etiquette Art Fashion Medicine
3. Architecture Run by wealthy merchants and bankers who wanted to show it off. Harmony and geometric symmetry were desired. Rather than using Gothic architecture, they sought after Roman and Greek building styles. For the first time, there were people specifically designing buildings instead of master masons which also worked on them. Gothic Architecture Greek Architecture
4. Science & Technology Wind and watermills and blast furnaces Heavy plow increased productivity of crops and plants at that time. GUN POWDER 1500 print shops had opened in western Europe. Only 11 books were being printed at the time which means the books had to be good and the authors had to pay.
5. Music Popular Instruments The Zink Similar to the recorder Most Multipurpose of Renaissance Instrument Played for serious or dance music Bagpipes Mention in Bible Celtic Migration Persia, India, Greece, Rome
6. Class System Clergy (Religious), Nobility, Commoner Status: Gender, Power, Lineage, Education, City of Birth
7. Table Etiquette Do not spit across the table Do not chew loudly like the French Do not put legs on the table Do not hiccup Do not rub teeth with napkin or worse finger Do not scratch yourself at the table Do not offer your neighbor a pear or other fruit which you already bit Do not look into handkerchief after blowing nose as if pearls or rubies are in it Avoid spitting into fingers
8. Art Florentine Was founded by Julius Caesar The origins of the city date back some two thousand years to 500 B.C. Rome, Greece and Gothic Art
9. Fashion Clothing Rich did not want same clothes as poor “Sacrifice everything for fashion” More fit than loose Women High collars Men ruffs
10. Medicine Renaissance medical scholars relied on observations as well as ancient theories to explain how the body works. (Hippocrates and Galen) Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary or Midwives ¼ of people died from? Vitruvian Man, Leonardo da Vinci
11. Cities/ Urban Life “25%” of Europe lived in a city Italy even more Venice 190,000 people in 1600 Myth of Venice Religious Origin “Perfect” government Unity Productive Kind Rough formula: Tall buildings Fortifications (Early Ren. Only) Towers Walls High agriculture directly outside city Farmers sometimes within city, commuted out
