The Renaissance

Nota:

• study of classics...

1. education

1. patrons
   1. replaced guilds

      Nota:

      • tho they were still prevalent-- regulated # of ppl in a certain trade/ cost of its products
   2. why did the wealthy patronize?
      1. form of propaganda
      2. showed off their wealth
      3. allowed them to create a self image
      4. supporting culture: made them seem like good leaders
2. new tehniques/principles
   1. realism and expression
      1. idealized realism
   2. frescoes...

      Nota:

      • difficult, michealangelo painted these on the sistene chapel and hated them
   3. linear persepctive
   4. classicism
      1. Greco-Roman influence
      2. Secularism
      3. humanism
      4. individualism
      5. free standing figures
      6. symmetry/balance
   5. individualism
   6. Geometrical Arrangement of Figures
   7. Light & Shadowing/Softening
      1. Chiaroscuro
      2. Sfumato
   8. Artists as Personalities/Celebrities
      1. social status rose
3. **northern renaissance art
   1. less realism
4. italy: artists
   1. donatello
      1. first david sculpture

         Nota:

         • feminine david (could be gay, like me)... realistic body... first free standing bronze since antiquity
   2. michealangelo
      1. sistine chapel
   3. boticelli
      1. the birth of venus
      2. adoration of the magi

         Nota:

         • ft. the medici boiz
      3. primavera
   4. other, less important artists
      1. masacio
   5. Brunelleschi
      1. the dome guy;

         Nota:

         • 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)
   6. Leonardo da Vinci

      Nota:

      • Artist  Sculptor  Architect  Scientist (disected people) Engineer  Inventor
      1. mona lisa
      2. last supper

1. well versed in a lot of fields
2. rlly good in one

1. after the "calimitous 14th century", monarchs began rebuilding power
   1. threatened by nobles...

1. satellite wars being fought there between larger nations
2. not unified

1. savornarola
   1. bonfire of the vanities
   2. executed by his own boiz

1. religion throughout Europe
2. corrupt
   1. nepotism: putting relatives into power
   2. indulgences...
   3. often acted based on politics, rather than religion
   4. a temporal power, as well as unquestioned religious authority
3. the inquisition
   1. the church felt threatened by secularization/new scientific ideas that contradicted with what it had taught

      Nota:

      • ex: heliocentric theory
      1. especially happened in spain, to drive out muslims/jews (under ferdinand and isabella)

1. dowries...
2. most places, women still had few rights

1. because it was prosperous (trade...)