Problem
• What is the traditional narrative about the Italian Renaissance? What is it? where, when, who, why?
• What is the Northern Renaissance? How is it similar to/different from the Italian Renaissance? Who, where, when, why?
• Why might the traditional narrative focus on the Italian over the Northern Renaissance?
• How are historians attempting to expand the Renaissance? Who/where/what/why?
• How does the video "beyond the madonna" change the traditional narrative of the renaissance? Is this important? Why or why not?
The Renaissance - Political and Social Setting - Humanities LibreTexts
The Renaissance - Art and Learning - Humanities LibreTexts
Humanism in Italian renaissance art - Smarthistory
Expanding the Renaissance: a Smarthistory initiative - SmarthistoryBeyond the Madonna, an early image of enslaved people in Renaissance Florence - YouTube