AP European History
AKA "Torture" :)
The Renaissance
Petrarch:
Francesco Petrarch was a poet and scholar who spent much of his time in monastery libraries looking for classical Latin texts. He felt the writers of his time should follow those models.
Around 1350 he proposed a new education system where young men would learn about Rome and it's glory. The students would learn how to write clearly, argue well, and other such classical values.
Marsilo Ficino
Marsilo Ficino:
Marsilo Ficino began lecturing an informal group of Florence's elite, becoming known as the Platonic Academy even though they weren't really a school. He educated students in rationalism, humanism, and other secular Renaissance ideas.
Section 2
Section 1
The Printing Press
The printing press allowed more people to read things and gain knowledge, increasing urban literacy, and the development of schools. Books became more widespread, and were printed in vernacular languages so more people could understand them. Instead of books being slwoly spread by being hand-copied, they were being mass produced and could easily and quickly spread around to faraway places. For instance, once the printing press reached Italy, Humanism and other Renaissance ideas were able to spread more quickly to other parts of Europe.
Francesco Petrarch
Section 3
Raphael
Raphael used geometric perspective by making things in the distance smaller than things in the forefront of a painting. This differs greatly from Medieval art, in which there was no real attempt to make the art look 3 dimensional. Raphael's art is very realistic and obviosly accurate, as that little house on the hill in the distance doesn't look like it's right next to Mary and Jesus.
Michelangelo
When Michelangelo created the fresco in the Sistine chapel of The Last Judgement , Michelangelo uses linear perspective. There is a clear central point in the painting, which is this guy. ->
There is symmetry and a triangular thing going on look
*cough cough illuminati confirmed*