Education in the Renaissance

Education in the Renaissance

• humanist movements affected education
• Renaissance Humanists: believed education could, dramatically affect humans, wrote books on education opened schools based on their ideas
• liberal studies/arts ‘enabled full potential
• women were taught the basics (no rhetorics; excluded from movement)

education in the renaissance

• liberal arts played major role in education: rhetorics, mathematics, astronomy, physical education, etc.
• liberal studies: to produce individuals who follow the path of virtue and wisdom & persuade others to do the same
• Physical Education: emphasized to "create complete citizens"

The artistic renaissance in Italy

the artistic renaissance in italy

• started frecsos, many of the human body and nature
• Fresco done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints
• Michelangelo-worked on the Sistine Chapel, Created ideal human beings with perfect proportions that showed more God-like figures

the artistic renaissance in italy

• Leonardo-Mastered the art of realistic paintings, Tried to capture the perfection of nature, Dissected human bodies to better see how nature worked
• Raphael- Madonnas, beauty surpassing human standards, frescos in the Vatican Palace

THe northern artistic renaissance

the northern artistic renaissance

• interested in portraying their world realistically
• the most important northern school was found in Flanders, one of the Low Countries

the northern artistic renaissance

• Jan van Eyck was one of the first people to use oil paint
• north was influenced by Italians and perspective. German artist Albrecht Durer influenced by Italy, known for Adoration of magi