Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Renaissance
- INTELLECTUAL/ARTS
- humanism (basis for most of the others)
Anmerkungen:
- individualism/ human potential
- education
- art, specifically
- patrons
- replaced guilds
Anmerkungen:
- tho they were still prevalent-- regulated # of ppl in a certain trade/ cost of its products
- why did the wealthy patronize?
- form of propaganda
- showed off their wealth
- allowed them to create a self image
- supporting culture: made them seem like good leaders
- new tehniques/principles
- realism and expression
- idealized
realism
- frescoes...
Anmerkungen:
- difficult, michealangelo painted these on the sistene chapel and hated them
- linear persepctive
- classicism
- Greco-Roman influence
- Secularism
- humanism
- individualism
- free standing figures
- symmetry/balance
- individualism
- Geometrical Arrangement of Figures
- Light & Shadowing/Softening
- Chiaroscuro
- Sfumato
- Artists as
Personalities/Celebrities
- social status rose
- **northern renaissance
art
- less realism
- italy: artists
- donatello
- first david
sculpture
Anmerkungen:
- feminine david (could be gay, like me)... realistic body... first free standing bronze since antiquity
- michealangelo
- sistine chapel
- boticelli
- the birth of venus
- adoration of the magi
Anmerkungen:
- primavera
- other, less important artists
- masacio
- Brunelleschi
- the dome guy;
Anmerkungen:
- studied the ancient Pantheon in Rome... used never before heard of architectural concepts
- unfinished dome on cathedral was an embarrassment to florence-- cosimo de medici commissioned him to fix it (taking a risk-- gained cosimo popularity)
- Leonardo da
Vinci
Anmerkungen:
- Artist Sculptor Architect Scientist (disected people) Engineer Inventor
- mona lisa
- last supper
- concept: renaissance man
- well versed in a lot of fields
- rlly good in one
- POLITICAL
- new monarchies
- after the "calimitous 14th century", monarchs
began rebuilding power
- threatened by nobles...
- Italy
- satellite wars being fought there between larger nations
- not unified
- the medici
- savornarola
- bonfire of the vanities
- executed by his own boiz
- ECONOMIC
- RELIGIOUS
- catholic church
- religion throughout Europe
- corrupt
- nepotism: putting relatives into
power
- indulgences...
- often acted based on politics, rather than religion
- a temporal power, as well as unquestioned religious authority
- the inquisition
- the church felt threatened by secularization/new scientific
ideas that contradicted with what it had taught
Anmerkungen:
- especially happened in spain, to drive out
muslims/jews (under ferdinand and isabella)
- even though some things were
secularizing, religion still a big deal
- SOCIAL
- marriage
- dowries...
- most places, women still had few rights
- renaissance really only effected the wealthy
few
- AREA/GEOGRAPHY
- Italy began the Renaissance...
- because it was prosperous (trade...)