Leonardo Da Vinci: The Renaissance

Man
Background

Painting

Profile
Architecture

Anatomy

Background

1452-1519

From Florence

Called the most relentlessly curious man in history

He questioned everything

Who benefits from individuals

who question the world?

Renaissance Man

A term to describe someone who has knowledge in many areas and the
ability to accomplish many things in many different disciplines

(Not discipline like punishment from parents, discipline is a word that

describes a category of learning. For example, Science, Math and
Philosophy are different disciplines)

Leonardo da Vinci is believed by many to be historys ultimate

Renaissance man. Why?

He had a great amount of knowledge and understanding of engineering,

biology, painting, sculpture, plants, music, philosophy, architecture,
science, math, anatomy and inventions. Seriously! Is there anything this
man couldnt do??

Paintings
(Although many of da Vincis paintings were left unfinished or did
not survive, he is one of the most celebrated and respected artists
of the Renaissance. The Mona Lisa and the fresco, The Last Supper,
are his two most famous pieces. He introduced new techniques in
painting that many artists copied after him)

Mona Lisa
The Last Supper

Visited by more than 5 million people each YEAR!

Da Vincis self-portrait

Architecture

Da Vinci designed domes, buildings and bridges

Inventions

Great interest in movement and

machines

He had designs for bicycles,

airplanes, helicopters,
parachutes, tanks, submarines,
diving suits

Some of these things were not invented for 500 years!

Talk about being ahead of your grade level!

What do you do if you have a

question about something in the
world?
For example, if you wanted to know where the liver
is in the body and what it does, what or who, would
you turn to for answers?

Anatomy

Da Vinci dissected cadavers (dead humans who have dedicated their

bodies to science) and kept detailed notes on human anatomy

http://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396

Can you think of any modern

Renaissance men or women?

How can we show daily life in the Renaissance in a virtual museum for
one of the following categories, religion, family, women, education.
Class brainstorm

Music (Renissance)
Website
Video
Written component
Prezi (artifact with write up)
Commentary
Voice over
Pinterest
Filmed skit, acting a scene from the Renaissance
Instagram
At least 5 artifacts

Changing Social and

Economic Systems
Remember the Middle Ages? Well theyre about to go out of style

Review
With your side partner, take turns defining the following and reviewing what weve learned so far
about each

Feudalism

An emerging middle class

The quality of life

Humanism, classicism, secularism, individualism

The Growth of the Middle Class

The great migration from rural

to urban

New middle class emerged

based on trade and
manufacturing

This new economy needed

workers who could read ,write
and do math!

Society became based on trade and money=the birth of

capitalism
Wait, so the Renaissance is responsible for Donald Trump?

#thnxnothnx

The quality of life began to improve in cities and rural areas

Record the
following
information in
your own
words where
possible, even
if it takes
longer to do.
Why?
When we put
concepts into
our own words,
we have to
understand
them first, this
helps us with
remembering
later on

Feudalism began to
break down

merchants from
this middle class
became wealthy

purchased castles
and aristocracy

individuals began
to see that they
could change the
way they lived

People migrated to
cities

easier to import
goods and set up
manufacturing
systems

wealthy merchants
no had free time to
study and enjoy art

people focused
more on life on
earth rather than
the afterlife

trade and
manufacturing
increased

increased use of
coins and money

more poeple
questioning how
society should
function

church remained
important but
secularism began
to take over

new middle class

emerges

capitalist society
emerges

more people
question what the
value of life is

they supported the

artists and builders
(patron of arts)

quality of life
improved

more poeple
wanted to be
surrounded by
beauty (art, music,
architecture etc)

wealthy middle
class began to
surround
themselves with
beautiful homes
and objects

learned to read,
write and do math

Continue brainstorming for Museum

ExhibitsHand in at end of class.

Guiding Question: How can I accurately represent daily life in the

Renaissance through my virtual museum exhibit? (Based on your
specific category of family life, role of women, education or
religion)
Criteria: Build the criteria with your groups ~What should we be
graded on?
How many artifacts are needed to fully demonstrate the extent of our
learning?
What platforms are acceptable? (I.e. websites, social media, prezi?)
What aspects of my specific category are essential (important) to include?
How will my teacher know that I have included my own original thoughts?
How will I show when I have paraphrased or borrowed ideas from a
source?

The Renaissance Family

Not one Definition

Why is there no one definition fits all answer to the
question, How did the typical Renaissance family live?

There is no one set way that a family

during the Renaissance lived because it
depended on where in Europe they lived
and what their class was (rich vs poor)
However, in general, there are a few
things that were widespread

In General

Families were patrilineal

Meaning the descent was tracked through the Fathers names, women were
largely invisible in the family tree

Men ruled the household, the finances, the property and made the decisions

Ancestry was very important to families and the reputation of a family was
shared by all

Individual desires were never greater than the needs of the whole family

Households

Europeans were the best housed and fed among civilizations and cultures
on the major continents. Those of the seigniorial class who had not fallen on
hard times lived relatively comfortably in wooden or stone castles or manor
houses.

The peasantry lived in houses made of wood or earth, with thatched roofs
and earthen floors. The major improvements in these dwellings came with
the practice of installing tile flooring, which was plentiful and inexpensive.
There was little besides a screen to divide one room from another and
separate the human occupants from their farm animals. Fleas and other
insects were probably a constant problem, especially in the summer.
Bathrooms and chimneys were unknown until the seventeenth century.

Furnishings differed according to status. In the homes of lords, beds, tables,

and chairs were comfortable and elaborate. Metal plates were fashionable in
Italy during the fifteenth century, and ceramic (pottery baked at a high
temperature in a kiln) dinnerware was a specialty of the Romagna region.
Among the poor, straw mattresses, chairs or a table fashioned from barrel
halves were common. Cooking and eating might have centered on a metal
stove, with a cooking pot and a copper drinking cup.

The Poor and the Homeless

The urban poor lived in terrible conditions, as can be seen in inventory

records made of their possessions after death. A typical poor person had a
few low-quality eating utensils, a blackened metal cooking pot, frying pans,
dripping pans, and a board for kneading bread. Other personal belongings
included a few old clothes, a stool, a table, and a bench that also doubled
as a bed, perhaps with a few sacks of straw serving for a mattress. Items
such as these furnished life in crowded rented rooms, which were generally
dark and dirty and located on the upper floors of buildingsfloors reserved
for the poor. The homeless poor lived in shantytowns (assemblies of small,
temporary homes)in 1560 in Pescara, Italy, for example, four hundred
people out of a population of two thousand lived in such conditions. In
Genoa, Italy, the poor sold themselves as galley slaves (people who
manned oars on large ships called galleys) every winter. In Venice,
destitute people lived in small boats near quays (platforms along banks) or
under bridges of canals. In each city the poor lived with fleas, lice, and
other pests. Poverty and destitution were visible everywhere.

Marriage

In Renaissance society, marriage was the foundation of the household

and kinship, which in turn were the foundations of society and the state.

Marriage alliances between ruling families sealed peace treaties and

sometimes created empires.

Marriage was a spiritual and respected institution.

Catholic priests could not marry and took vows of chastity

Protestant ministers were encouraged to get married

Marriages tended to be among people of similar social and financial

backgrounds

Members of the highest nobility married people from other regions or

even other countries

Childhood
Why might our knowledge of child birth
in the Renaissance be extremely
limited?

Childhood

Men (even doctors) were excluded from the child birth process and so
very little information exists

Women gave birth in the presence of many other women, a midwife who
delivered the baby, many friends and relatives.

These women gathered for support and also for a social event

Midwives

Why do you think it was common for children and mothers to die during
childbirth?

Why do you think people had many children during the Renaissance?

Child mortality rate (death rate) was

extremely high.
20-40% of babies died within the first year
and only 50% of children would make it to
their 10th birthday

Meaning of childhood

Childhood was commonly thought to begin at age seven and end at

fourteen. Children under seven, the stage known as "infancy," belonged
to the world of women. After seven, children were regarded as capable
of being instructed. In some places the laws considered children under
fourteen to be capable of committing adult crimes.

Some boys were legally declared "emancipated" (released from parental

control) as young as nine, and some were required to bear arms in times
of war at an even younger age.

Childhood experiences between the rich and the poor were extremely
different. Many children are thought to have received very little care,
attention or love, other historians believe children received lots of
attention and discipline.

Why is it difficult to know for certain what childhood was like during this
time?

Topics for your Museum

Exhibit

You might want to

specify if your
museum exhibit
displays the
family life of a
peasant or a
noble

Role of Men in the Family

Role of Women in the Family

Role of Children

Marriages

Hobbies

Childhood

Church involvement

Chores

Diet

Who else lived in the household?

(servants, wet nurse, laborers, farmers
etc)

Sources
http://
www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-a
nd-maps/daily-life-0

Women in the
Renaissance

What did humanists believe about

education?

Humanists believed in education for

men and women, however this was not
necessarily the reality for all women.
Who do you think got to be educated?
Under what circumstances?

Elite

Elite women were sometimes educated but this education was usually
having to do with being a proper lady at court

Truly educated women were seen as a bit strange during this time

Once a woman was married, all studying and education stopped

Many people were still against educating women but others spoke up
and declared it important

Topics for your Museum

Exhibit

Prominent women

Who encouraged women to be

educated?

Role of women in daily life

3. Elizabeth Woodville

Motherhood

4. Elizabeth I

Noble women vs Poor women

5. Anne Boleyn

Women in marriage

Life of young women

Women of
notability
1. Isabella d'Este
2. Marguerite de Navarre

6. Catherine de Medici
7. Margaret Roper
8. Christine de Pizan
9. Lucrezia Borgia

Education
What are your questions about Education in the Renaissance?
Write them down and hand them in as an exit slip. Try to have different
ones than your neighbors.