Here's our page on Week 2 - the Renaissance! Enjoy!!
Summer work:
ID List The Medicis Lorenzo de Medici Florence Sandro Botticelli Savonarola Bonfire of the Vanities Michelangelo Giovanni de Medici (Pope Leo X) Niccolo Machiavelli Leonardo da Vinci |
Links to watch for summer: Please watch these videos about the ruling Medici family in Italy during the Renaissance. Fill out the following IDs, answering the Who, What, Where, When, Why-it's-important about each. Work on a the same google document we'll use for class and save yourself a ton of time!! You can also create notecards if it helps you study: the ID on one side and the information on the opposite side. Click on the links at the front of each number to open up the appropriate youtube video file.
1. The Magnificent Medici - fun episode about Botticelli, Lorenzo's attempted assassination, one of the greatest tools of all time, and more! You can skip around in this one a bit if you'd like to. 2. The Medici: The Medici Popes - Wonderful episode about the invasion of Italy, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. You can skip around a bit in this one as well. 3. Crash Course - The Renaissance. |
Here's part 1 of our Renaissance lecture. It covers the introduction and basic changes from the Medieval world.
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Part 2 of The Renaissance looks at the city states we are dealing with and their comparative political structures.
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Part 3 continues the discussion of the Italian city-states and their political structures in greater detail. It then touches on humanism in the Renaissance.
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Giotto's Madonna with Child and Michelangelo's David form the artistic comparison we begin with in part 4.
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Part 5 discusses the art of Donatello and Da Vinci.
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