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The Renaissance — An Illuminated Codex

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  • 01The Renaissance Florence and beyond · c.1400–1600
  • 02A Continent Reborn from Ashes
  • 03F lorence & the House of Medici
  • 04B runelleschi’s Impossible Dome
  • 05T he Early Masters
  • 06L eonardo da Vinci
  • 07M ichelangelo Buonarroti
  • 08R aphael & the School of Athens
  • 09B eyond the Alps
  • 10T he Quiet Revolutions
  • 11O f Princes and Courtiers
  • 12T he Closing of the Page
  • 13F inis — What Endures

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  1. 01The Renaissance Florence and beyond · c.1400–1600
  2. 02A Continent Reborn from Ashes
  3. 03F lorence & the House of Medici
  4. 04B runelleschi’s Impossible Dome
  5. 05T he Early Masters
  6. 06L eonardo da Vinci
  7. 07M ichelangelo Buonarroti
  8. 08R aphael & the School of Athens
  9. 09B eyond the Alps
  10. 10T he Quiet Revolutions
  11. 11O f Princes and Courtiers
  12. 12T he Closing of the Page
  13. 13F inis — What Endures
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Slide 01

The Renaissance Florence and beyond · c.1400–1600

  • An illuminated codex in thirteen folios
Slide 02

A Continent Reborn from Ashes

  • The Black Death (1347–1351) killed perhaps a third of Europe. In its wake, labor became precious, feudal bonds frayed, and survivors questioned the old certainties.
  • Italian trade republics — Venice, Genoa, Florence — grew rich on Mediterranean commerce.
  • Humanists like Petrarch hunted forgotten manuscripts of Cicero, Livy, and Plato in monastic libraries.
  • The fall of Constantinople (1453) sent Greek scholars westward, bearing libraries.
  • A fragile new idea: that this life, here and now, was worthy of beauty.
Slide 03

F lorence & the House of Medici

  • A wool-merchants’ town with a banking dynasty became, for a moment, the workshop of the world.
  • Cosimo de’ Medici (d. 1464) made the family bank the richest in Europe — and patronized everyone who mattered.
  • His grandson Lorenzo «il Magnifico» (1449–92) gathered Botticelli, the young Michelangelo, and Pico della Mirandola at his table.
  • The Platonic Academy revived Greek philosophy in dialogue with Christian thought.
  • Florins — the Florentine gold coin — bought paint, marble, and immortality.
  • “He who wishes to be free must first know himself.” — attributed to Lorenzo
Slide 04

B runelleschi’s Impossible Dome

  • For more than a century the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore stood roofless — no one knew how to span its 45-meter octagon.
  • Filippo Brunelleschi won the 1418 competition with a double-shell design and a herringbone brick pattern that supported itself as it rose.
  • The dome was completed in 1436; the lantern, in 1461.
  • He also formalized linear perspective — a vanishing point on a panel — teaching painters to model space mathematically.
  • Il Duomo — the silhouette of the age
Slide 05

T he Early Masters

  • Donatello (c.1386–1466) — cast the first free-standing nude bronze since antiquity (David, c.1440), restoring the body to art.
  • Masaccio (1401–28) — in the Brancacci Chapel, painted figures that cast real shadows in real space, dead at twenty-six.
  • Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) — the Primavera and the Birth of Venus: pagan goddesses returning, on tiptoe, into a Christian world.
  • Fra Angelico — quiet frescoes for the cells of San Marco, where humanism met prayer.
  • A generation that taught Europe to look again, and to see.
Slide 06

L eonardo da Vinci

  • 1452–1519 · the universal man
  • The Last Supper (Milan, 1495–98): emotion arrested in the instant of betrayal.
  • Mona Lisa (c.1503–19): sfumato, a haze of breath between figure and air.
  • Notebooks in mirror-script: anatomy, water flow, flight, gear-trains, fetal development — centuries early.
  • Patron-jumped from Florence to Milan to Rome to a French chateau, where he died.
  • « Vitruvian Man », after Leonardo
Slide 07

M ichelangelo Buonarroti

  • 1475–1564 · sculptor first, painter under protest
  • Pietà (1499) — carved at twenty-four, the only work he ever signed.
  • David (1504) — 5.17 meters of Florentine defiance, hewn from a flawed block others had abandoned.
  • Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508–12) — four years on his back; the finger of God reaching toward Adam.
  • Last Judgment (1541) and the dome of St. Peter’s — the old man as architect of Christendom.
  • Watch on YouTube: Michelangelo & the Sistine Chapel
Slide 08

R aphael & the School of Athens

  • 1483–1520 · dead at thirty-seven, on his birthday
  • Trained in Urbino; absorbed Leonardo’s grace and Michelangelo’s power; surpassed both in harmony.
  • In the Vatican’s Stanza della Segnatura, he painted The School of Athens: Plato pointing up, Aristotle pointing down — philosophy posed as a family portrait.
  • Many of his philosophers wear the faces of his contemporaries: Leonardo as Plato, Michelangelo brooding as Heraclitus, Raphael himself peering out from the corner.
  • The painting is the Renaissance’s self-portrait: classical antiquity as the present tense.
Slide 09

B eyond the Alps

  • The new spirit crossed the mountains and changed in the crossing — sharper, colder, more devout, more bourgeois.
  • Jan van Eyck (c.1390–1441) — oil paint perfected; the Arnolfini Portrait’s mirror, a universe in a brass disc.
  • Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) — engravings sold from market stalls across Germany; the artist as printed brand.
  • Hieronymus Bosch — gardens of earthly delights, demons in eggshells.
  • Erasmus of Rotterdam — In Praise of Folly (1509): humanism with a smile and a scalpel.
Slide 10

T he Quiet Revolutions

  • Gutenberg’s press (c.1450, Mainz) — movable type. Within fifty years, perhaps 20 million books circulated where there had been hand-copied thousands.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus — De revolutionibus (1543): the Earth, demoted, begins its long orbit around the Sun.
  • Andreas Vesalius — De humani corporis fabrica (1543): the body opened, drawn from cadavers, not from Galen’s authority.
  • Mathematics, navigation, cartography, double-entry bookkeeping — the world becoming measurable.
  • A press in every city was a slow earthquake under every throne.
Slide 11

O f Princes and Courtiers

  • Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince (1513), written in Florentine exile: politics seen plainly, without theology, as it is and not as it ought to be.
  • Baldassare Castiglione — The Book of the Courtier (1528): the ideal of sprezzatura, the art that conceals art.
  • Sir Thomas More — Utopia (1516): the first modern thought-experiment about a just society.
  • A new question rises: not what is virtue? but what works?
  • “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” — Machiavelli
Slide 12

T he Closing of the Page

  • No age ends on a single date, but several wounds taken together stopped the bleeding of light into Italy.
  • The Sack of Rome (1527) — mutinous imperial troops looted the city for eight days; artists fled, workshops dispersed.
  • The Reformation (Luther, 1517) split Latin Christendom, hardening dogma on both sides.
  • The Counter-Reformation — the Council of Trent, the Index of Forbidden Books, the Roman Inquisition reshaped what art and thought could say.
  • Trade routes shifted to the Atlantic; gravity moved to Antwerp, Amsterdam, London, Madrid.
  • The spirit, by then, had escaped — into Shakespeare, into Galileo, into us.
Slide 13

F inis — What Endures

  • The Renaissance taught Europe a stubborn idea: that human beings are worth painting carefully, that the past can teach without enslaving, and that curiosity is a form of piety.
  • Every museum, every university lecture, every thinker who dares to draw the body as it is rather than as it should be — owes a debt to a few thousand stubborn Italians, six hundred years ago.
  • Watch on YouTube: Florence & Renaissance history
  • Watch on YouTube: Michelangelo & the Sistine Chapel
  • — explicit liber —
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