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LANDMARKS
IN HUMANITIES
Chapter 7
Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
ca. 1300–1600
Transition: Medieval to Renaissance
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The Black Death
Killed
one-third to one-half of population
Four
waves between 1347 and 1375
Brought by flea-bearing rats on commercial vessels
Hit towns hardest
Enormous psychological and economic damage
Economic
benefits to those who survived
Increased
Climatic
jobs; more bargaining power
disasters; revolt against feudal overlords
Demise
of feudal order
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Transition: Medieval to Renaissance
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The Rise of Constitutional Monarchy
Magna
Carta (“great charter”)
Middle class invited to participate in the Great
Council (Parliament)
First
example of representative government
The Hundred Years’ War
Dispute
over English claims to continental lands,
the French throne
First
use of gunpowder
Joan of Arc
Major blow to feudalism
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Transition: Medieval to Renaissance
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The Decline of the Church
Avignon
Papacy (1309–1377)
Papacy
relocated from Rome to Avignon, France,
in response to political pressure from French king
Unsavory efforts at financial and political
aggrandizement
Simony
Indulgences
Great
Schism (1378–1417)
Rift
between French and Italian cardinals led to election
of two popes, who excommunicated each other
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The Arts in Transition
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The Arts in Transition
Social
realism: objective attention to human
society and social interaction
Boccaccio
Decameron
Secular entertainment; realistic
Christine de Pisan
First
feminist writer
Book of the City of Ladies
Attack on misogyny; defense of female right to education
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Chaucer
Master
of fourteenth-century vernacular literature
Canterbury Tales
Versified
human comedy
Characters with individualistic personalities
Giotto’s New Realism
Introduced
natural and lifelike style
Weighty,
robust figures
Gradations of light and shade (chiaroscuro)
Lamentation over Jesus
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The Ars Nova in Music
Increased
rhythmic complexity and aural
expressiveness
Isorhythm
Syncopation
Guillaume
Messe
de Machaut
de Notre Dame
Unified Mass into single polyphonic composition
Numerous
secular works
Ballades
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The Italian Renaissance
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The Italian Renaissance
Movement
to recover culture of Classical antiquity
began in Italy
Appealed
Italian
city-states independent, competitive
Papacy
to secular interests of rising merchant class
did little to unify rival city-states
The Medici
Wealthy
banking family that ruled Florence for
four generations
Great
patrons of scholarship and the arts
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The Italian Renaissance
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Renaissance Humanism
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Renaissance Humanism
Classical
humanism: the revival of Greco-Roman
culture; major feature of Italian Renaissance
Secular
in nature
Used Classical authority for basis of new appraisal of
individual in the world order
Different
from other revivals
Not
as foundation of faith, but as rational guide to
human fulfillment
Attracted broad base of support
Studia
humanitatis
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Renaissance Humanism
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Petrarch: “Father of Humanism”
Devoted
life to recovery, copying, and editing of
Latin manuscripts
Revived epistolary tradition
Deeply
influenced by Cicero, Augustine
Canzoniere
(Songbook)
Conflict
between Christian will to believe and Classic
will to reason
Perfected the sonnet
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Renaissance Humanism
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Ficino: The Platonic Academy
“Golden
Age”
After
fall of Constantinople, Greek manuscripts and
Byzantine scholars poured into Italy
Ficino
translated entire body of Plato’s writings
Platonic Academy in Florence founded
Popularized
idea that platonic (spiritual) love attracts
the soul to God
Became major theme among Renaissance poets and
painters
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Pico della Mirandola: The Dignity of Man
Sought
“unity of truth” in all philosophic thought
Oration on the Dignity of Man
“Manifesto
of humanism”
Argued for free will and the perfectibility of the individual
Castiglione: The Well-Rounded Person
The
Book of the Courtier
L’uomo
universale: the well-rounded person
Men must influence those who rule
Women must entertain men of the court
Focus
on manners, not morals
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Renaissance Humanism
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The Printing Press
Johann
Gutenberg perfected movable-type
printing press in 1450
Gutenberg
Bible, 1455
Revolutionized
learning and communication
Information
became commodity for mass consumption
Books readily available to public
Facilitated rise of popular education
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Renaissance Humanism
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Machiavelli and Power Politics
Diplomat
and statesman; critic of societal realities
Lamented
The
Italy’s disunity, rivalry among city-states
Prince
Political
treatise; called for unification of Italy under
powerful and courageous leader
Need for strong state justified strong rule
If necessary must sacrifice moral virtue
Mastery of power politics can ensure survival of the state
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Early Renaissance Art
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Early Renaissance Art
Two
periods:
Early
Centered in Florence
High
New
Renaissance (ca. 1400–1490)
Renaissance (ca. 1490–1520)
Centered in Rome and Milan
sources of patronage
Enhanced
Artist
social, financial status of artists
as hero and genius
Vasari,
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters,
Architects, and Sculptors
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Early Renaissance Architecture
Devoted
to architectural principles laid out by
Vitruvius Pollio
Human
proportions mirror the universal order
Brunelleschi
Designed
dome of Florence Cathedral
Defended Classical principles of symmetry and design
Pazzi Chapel
Alberti
Shared
enthusiasm for harmonious proportions
Ten Books on Architecture
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Early Renaissance Painting
Attempted
to recreate “look” of nature through
various illusionistic techniques
Introduced scientific methods for the
representation of objects in space
Linear
(one-point) perspective
Brunelleschi’s
laws of linear perspective
Manner
in which parallel lines in a given visual field
appear to converge at a single vanishing point on
the horizon
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Masaccio
First
to master linear perspective
Frescoes for churches in Florence
The Tribute Money
Botticelli
Birth
of Venus
Tribute to physical and spiritual beauty
Neoplatonic ideas
Goddess of earthly and divine love
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Early Renaissance Sculpture
Donatello
David
Classical in proportion and stance, yet seductive and
sensuous
Celebration of the physical, secular world
Ghiberti
“Gates
of Paradise”
Bronze Relief panels on Florentine Baptistery of San
Giovanni
Linear perspective, humanized figures
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Verrocchio
Sculpture
of likeness of Lorenzo de’ Medici
Renaissance portraiture was hallmark of new
self-consciousness and growing civic pride
Equestrian
statue of Bartolommeo Colleoni
Recalls Roman statue of Marcus Aurelius
Scientific naturalism; anatomical detail
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High Renaissance Art
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High Renaissance Art
Grand
Style
Scientific
illusionism combined with Classical design
principles
Artistic
activity moved to Rome
High Renaissance Architecture
Bramante:
Modeled
Palladio,
on the Classical tholos
Four Books on Architecture
Symmetry
Saint Peter’s Cathedral
and centrality controlling elements
Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, Italy
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Leonardo da Vinci
Scientist,
artist, mathematician, composer,
inventor
Exalted
importance of empirical study to discover
general rules of nature
Mona
Lisa
“Lifelike”;
Last
outdoor setting
Supper
Fusion
of narrative and symbolic content to achieve an
ordered, grand design
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Raphael
Compositions
notable for clarity, harmony, and
unity of design
The Alba Madonna
The School of Athens
The
great philosophers and scientists of ancient
history
Epitome of the Grand Style: spatial clarity, decorum,
balance, unity of design, and grace
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Michelangelo
David
Renaissance
Sistine
Chapel
Creation
ideals of terribilitá and virtù
and Fall of Humankind
Maximized grandeur of figures
Creation
Dome
of Adam
of St. Peter’s
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The High Renaissance in Venice
Art
of color and light
Favored
oil medium
Titian
Venus
of Urbino
Style became definitive expression of High Renaissance
painting
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Renaissance Music
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Renaissance Music
More
secular music committed to paper
Music composed by professionals and amateurs
Virtuosity in performance: hallmark
Josquin des Prez
Flemish
composer; “the prince of music”
Unified
polyphonic Mass around single musical theme
Word painting: Attention to relationship between words
and music
Ave Maria
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The Madrigal
Composition
for three to six unaccompanied
voices
Usually polyphonic; often included playful
imitation and word painting
Functioned as popular entertainments
Leading composers Flemish
Adrian
Willaert
Roland de Lassus
Maddalena Casulana
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Instrumental Music
Music
for solo instruments popular; lute was a
favorite
Wrote music for small organs, the clavichord, and
the harpsichord
Instrumental compositions began to regularly
appear
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Renaissance Dance
First
efforts to establish dance as independent
discipline
Guglielmo Ebreo
Importance
of grace, memorization of fixed steps,
coordination of music and motion
Balli
Three
favorite forms of Italian court dance:
Basse
Saltarello
Piva
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Beyond the West:
The Glories of the Ottoman Empire
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The Glories of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman
Empire marked last great age of Muslim
world power
Under Suleiman, left cultural landmarks
comparable to European Renaissance
Centrally-planned
mosques, public baths, palaces
Golden Age of literature and arts
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