The humanist movement of the Renaissance greatly influenced education in Europe. Universities revised their curricula to place more emphasis on the study of humanities like Greek, Latin, and classical literature. This led to the idea of a "Renaissance man" who was well-rounded in both arts and sciences. Major libraries were founded across Europe to house classical and Renaissance knowledge. Renaissance art also reflected humanist ideals by blending classicism, spirituality, and realism. The greatest artists of the time like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael produced renowned works that demonstrated their mastery of anatomy, perspective, and composition.

1. Humanist Influence Of
Renaissance
Education

2. • The influence of humanism penetrated the school and
university of renaissance in Europe. Imbued by the
humanist spirit, educator revised the school by giving
more emphasis on the study of humanities.
• Heidelberg, Salamanca, Oxford, Cambridge, Paris,
Ghent, Bologna, and other universities included Greek,
Latin, Hebrew, and classical literature in their curricula.
• Because of the influence of humanism, Renaissance
education stress the ideas of well-rounded or “universal
man”. This educational ideas was clearly expressed by
the Italian humanist-noble-man Baldassare di
Castiglione in his wild read book the Courtier, which
portray a perfect gentleman possesses the combine
qualities of warrior and scholar who appreciates arts,
poetry and music.

3. Baldassare di Castiglione

4. • The humanistic movement inspired popes, king,
merchant-princes, and scholar to build libraries.
Famous among these are till the present times the
Laurential library in Florence, the Ambrosian
Library in Milan, St. Mark library in Venice, the
Bibliotheque Nationale (National Library) in Paris
and the Vatican library in Vatican city. These
libraries are rich repositories of classical and
renaissance knowledge. They are intellectual
shrines which are visited every year by modern
scholar from all parts of the world.

5. • Renaissance painting, like humanism, reflected
the revival of the classical spirit.
• It blended classicism, spiritualism and realism to
produce new art of brush.
• The greatest titans of Renaissance painting were
Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452-1519), Michaelangelo
(1475-1564), and Raphael (1483-1520).

6. Leonardo da Vinci, the oldest, was a
man of versatile talents. He was a
painter, architect, sculptor, engineer,
inventor, scientist, musician and
philosopher. He designed many military
devices, such as cannons, catapults,
and tanks. He made a crude airplane,
for he believed that man would
someday fly like a bird. He also
fashioned a self-propelled vehicle which
resemble an automobile. He’s best
known today as a painter. Because of
his knowledge in science, his painting
were remarkable accurate in technical
details.

7. His two paintings are “The Last Supper” which the last
dinner of Christ, and “Mona Lisa” which portray a woman
with a bewitching smile.
THE LAST SUPPER
Mona Lisa

8. Michelangelo was great in both
painting in sculpture. His genius is
shown in his exquisite painting on the
ceiling of Sistine. Chapel which tells
the biblical story from The Creation to
the Great Deluge. This painting show
his marvelous knowledge of human
anatomy.

9. The Great Deluge( The Flood)
THE CREATION

10. The youngest of the trio, was a
greatest painter of Renaissance.
He was called “ Perfect Painter”
because of the classical harmony
and exquisite symmetry of his art.
His masterpiece was the “ Sistine
Madonna”, which has been
acclaimed as the greatest
painting in the world.

11. Sistine
Madonna

12. • Renaissance sculpture was improvement on the
sculptural art of the Greek and Romans. Aside
from its classic appreciation of the human form, it
showed a great imagination and religious
devotion.
• Niccolo Pisano of Pisa(1205-78)- was the father
of renaissance sculpture. He excelled in making
sacrophage as shown as his beautiful marble
bas-relief depicting scenes from biblical stories in
the pulpit in the cathedrals of Pisa and Sirena.

13. • Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455)- Exquisitely carved bronze
door at the baptistry of the cathedral of Florence and
deeply impressed Michelangelo.
• Donatello (d.1466) – whose masterpiece is a statue of
saint George.
• The most famous sculptures was Michelangelo, whose
statue of David is regarded as one of most finest
masterpiece. His greatest sculptural work is La Pieta, the
most renowned statue in the world.

14. • Renaissance architecture with its classical beauty and
simplicity, replaced the Gothic style. It revived the
Romanesque rounded arches and the Hellenistic
columns.
• Renaissance architecture was classical in forms, but in
spirit its Christian.
• Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) – was the “Father of
Renaissance Architecture”. He designed the most
famous pointed domed of the Cathedral of Florence in
Pitti Palace in Florence.
• Leon Battista Alberti (d.-1472) – designed the façade of
the church of Santa Maria Novella In Florence.

15. • European music of 15th and 16th century reflected the
Renaissance Spirit.
• Giovanni Palestrina (1525-1594) – the “ The Prince Of
Music” . He perfected the music for religious services.
• Renaissance saw the beginning of written instrumental
music.
• Composer began to write music for instruments and
voices. One type of written music is was Oratario, a
religious drama set to music.
• Also gave birth to two forms of secular (non-religious
music)
1. Madrigal- a composition of two or more voices
accompanied by several instrument.
2. Ayre- a composition for solo voice accompanied by flute.

16. • Enriched the world civilization , particularly in the realm of
fine arts, philosophy, literature and educations. The
Renaissance Cathedral, masterpieces of arts, and
humanistic studies have become the heritages of
mankind.
• Spark the intellectual revolution. The invention of printing
and writings of the humanities awakened men’s mind and
destroyed many fallacies and superstition of
medievalism.
• The Renaissance contributed to geographical discoveries
and maritime exploration of the 15th and 16th centuries.