The document discusses the Italian Renaissance, highlighting its beginnings in the late Middle Ages, with Florence as a central hub for art, education, and political power. Key factors for its emergence include the wealth from trade, the influence of the Medici family, and inspiration drawn from the ruins of ancient Rome. Major cities such as Venice, Milan, and Genoa played crucial roles in fostering the movement through advancements in art and trade.

1. Italy and The Renaissance
By T. Lu
For Mr. Haskvitz

2. Early Renaissance
• Started in Italy in the late Middle
Ages
• Movement of knowledge in classical
sources, new art, educational
reform
• Intellectual,technological,
agricultural progress

3. Renaissance In Florence
• Great wealth from manufacturing
and trade of wool and creation of
textiles
• Became very influential in society
and politics
• Had strong economy and political
philosophy

4. Medici Family
• Powerful and
influential family
• Lead the birth of
the Italian
Renaissance with
other Signore
families

5. Why the Renaissance
Started in Italian City- states
• Ruins of Ancient Rome inspired art
about Roman memories
• Florence, Milan, Venice and Genoa had
the best art and architecture
• Were wealthy from trade with Asia
• Invention of the printing-press

6. Independent Trading Cities
• Venice
• Milan
• Genoa
• Florence
• Pisa
• Siena
• Ferraro

7. Venice
• was a Republic
• was an empire
that controlled
land in modern
day Italy
• a major port of
trade
•Full of ceramists,
glassworkers,
woodworkers, lace
makers and sculptors
Redentore
Church
San Giorgio Maggiore

8. Milan
• In 1447 Francesco
Sforza came to
power in Milan
and rapidly
transformed that
still medieval city
into a major
centre of art and
learning
Cathedral of Milan
,

9. Genoa
• St. Maria di
Carignano
• trade, shipbuilding
and banking
helped support
one of the largest
and most powerful
navies in the
Mediterranean

10. Florence Architecture
Ospedale degli
Innocenti
The church of San
Lorenzo
Palazzo Medici
Riccardi
Façade of Santa
Maria Novella
Florence
Cathedral
(Santa Maria del
Fiore,
called the
Duomo)

11. Pisa
• 1558 the Knights
Square was rebuilt
in Renaissance
style by Giorgio
Vasari
•main building on
square is Palazzo della
Carovana, palace of
Knights of St. Stephen
(formerly the Palace
of the Elders )
Knights Square Monument
Leaning Tower Of Pisa

12. Siena
• Renaissance ideals
first spread from
Florence to
neighboring states
of Tuscany (like
Siena)
Piazza del Campo

13. Ferrara• Talented
composers sang in
papal choir in
Rome or numerous
chapels of the
aristocracy
•brought
polyphonic style
with them,
influencing many
native Italian
composers
Palazzo
dei
Diamanti

14. Assessment!!
1.In what City-state did Renaissance
ideas first spread from Florence to
Tuscany?
2.Who lead the birth of the Italian
Renaissance?
3.In what ways did Italy gain from
spreading ideas of the
Renaissance?

15. Assessment!! Cont.
• 4.What 3 things helped Genoa
support one of the largest navies in
the Mediterranean?
• 5. What advances did the
Renaissance offer?

16. Answers!!
• 1. Siena
• 2. The Medici Family
• 3. Intellectual, agricultural, and
technological advances and new
knowledge of classical sources, new
art and educational reform
• 4. Banking, trade and shipbuilding

17. Answers!! Cont.
• 5. Agricultural, technological, and
intellectual advances