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| a hedonistic response to ti castrisotophe of the Black Death, who breaks free of contemporary literary tradition? |
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| Boccaccio presents a series of what> |
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| tales, based upon primary faliaux, the floating popular fiction of the day, comic and tragic bawdy and solemn, satire and serious |
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| What kind of people did Boccaccio's stories have? |
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-secondary status
-subordinate to father and husband
-regarded by Church as the "cursed begetters of original sin" |
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| how was the view regarding late medieval women improved? |
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-Growing mairolatry
(cult of the Virgin Mary)
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| transformation of sexual desire from a degrading sinful, physical ncessity into a spiritually ennobling emotion and relationship b/w men and women |
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| accepts and affirms the trad role of women as daughters, wives, mothers, ad homemakers, AND argues for greater educational and experience for them. |
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| the book of Chrstine de Pizan |
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some of the most important contributions to societ and cultre made by women in the past,
--> giventhat equal opportunity, women who have same same intellectual abilities as men can equal men in accomplishments and achievements |
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| La Cite de dames by Christine de Pizan |
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most lively and inclusive cross-section of everyday medieval society:
- secular & religious
-notable for power of human observation
-humor and dramatic skills |
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| Chaucer - canterbury Tales |
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| secures dialect of souterhn England as the literary language of England, PRECURSOR of modern English |
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| composed simplified, dramatic narratives, peopled by realistically observed, pyschologically expressive figures, in the telling moment of an event |
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| stands at the beginning of the movement in W art to dissolve the picture surface and involve the viewer as an immediate witness to the event or scene, the move fom revremce and worship to ID and empathy |
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| people of the day, called their time the rebirth |
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| Itilain dominance of the east-west Mediterranean trade and north-south European ____ trade and _____ |
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CLOTH and banking
combined with Greco-Roman texts and Islamic advances leads to cultural and economic growth (Florence, Venice, Milan) |
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a) greater middle-class affluence and influence,
b) merchant and artisan challenge to the aristocracy and Church for political power and cultural control,
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d)increasing awareness of nostalgia for classical past, a less circumscribed world |
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After a thousand years fettered by religious and feudal authoritarianism, people begin to shape an image of human kind and world more positive and hopeful than that offered by medieval Christianity and society |
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| Renaissance produces a richer sense of what it means to be a material, self-determining human being in a material world. |
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Rather than being a miserable depraved sinner seeking salvation in a corruptt and wretched world, humanity ... |
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| increasingly viewed as a potential source of great, even infinite, possibilities, ideally developing towards a balance of physical, moral, intellectual, and creative faculties |
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a) Essential to the Renaissance, bursts of new art and architecture -
b) the commissions and support of rising, ambitious individuals and families
c) aggressively competing with the patronage of established aristocracy and Church for position, status, and influence in the fluctuating cultural, social, political, and religious atmosphere |
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| classical, secular text, creates a new reading canon not directly connected with the Church or theological concerns |
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Secularization and hx
- a more expansive, objective, and critical view of history |
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an attempt to reconcile the perennial and increasing conflict b/w:
1) classical, Greco Roman values and latitude and
2) Christian values and authority. |
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| True. Renaissance Tension |
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| establishes dominant form of the sonnet, shaping the Petrarchan love motifs and themes that dominate lyric verse for more than 3 hundred years |
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| Petraarch's autobiography |
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| called for return to the latin of Rome's golden age |
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Petrarch
- leads to a major linguistic rehab of common language of educated |
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| motive sparked by Canzionere (100 poens of lover) |
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broadens and aesthticizes concept of love endtrodcued b =y courtly love.
- oxymorons of emotions, icy fire, loves killing glance |
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| Pivotal Renaissance events |
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a) development of movable type
(individual block letters for printing)
b) contact with Western hemisphere
1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue
c) Reformation |
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| Basic tenants of Human Agenda: |
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1. Essential "unity of truth"
2. quest for conprehensive knowledge of world
3. fundamental rational, mathematical, harmonic nature of universe
4. Necessary role of free will in shaping the individual
5. human perfectibility |
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idea or belief that although truth, goodness, and beauty exist perfectly only in the divine Nous or Mind,
humankind can approach the ideals through knowledge, ethics, and art. |
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idea or belief that although
truth, goodness, and beauty
exist perfectly only in the divine Nous or Mind,
humankind can approach
the ideals through knowledge, ethics, and art. |
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| human dignity rather than human degradation and degeneracy is the cornerstone of human nature. |
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| According to Pico della Mirandola, Dignity lies in ... |
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| the potential and free will which God has bestowned on humanity, aspire to highest things. |
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| public lecture and introduction to humanist thought y Pico della Mirandola |
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De hominis dignitate oratio
oration on the Dignity of Man |
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| writer, poet, remodles the chivalric concept of education, training and behavior, delinating qualifications for the ideal reaissance |
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| first shapes the modern conepts of lady and gentleman, which will be fundamental to Western social development |
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| political philopher, foundern of modern political science |
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| one of the most explosive books in history, adviisng rulers and pliticans to saw or do whatever is necessary to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN POWER |
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| For Machiavelli, power is |
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| to be desired for itself, and politics is the art of expediency |
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Reflecting the classical humanist tenor, there is a growing emphasis upon:
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-secular knowledge
-realistic art |
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| The growing emphasis on naturalism, secular knowledge, and realistic art, produces a new commitment to: |
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empiricism,
to the systematic observation of natural phenomena and objects. |
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| Realism, naturalism, and empiricism leads to a new |
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experimental attitude
--> propels the development of science and engineering
---> discoveries in astronomy, world exploration, and art (linear perspective) |
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| art (linear perspective) is |
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Florentine Renaissance concepts:
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1. informed humanism (human dignity & self worth)
2. Reaissance individualism (personal free will of ones potential)
3. neoPlatonic idealism
(quest for knowledge, ideal, perfection)
4. scientific naturalism
(observation, experimentation, objectiveness)
5. political realism
(practical, pragmatic, expedient -> POWER) |
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a technique for representing 3-D objects and depth on a two dimensional surface
-uses converging parallel lines hat intersect in the background to delimit relative size from foreground to background, reducing size of giures and objects in direct ratio to distance from the viewer |
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| any person of means can memorialize her or his human presence, his or her status, achievement, individuality, personality |
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| mathematical and musical ratios and harmonies. |
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cosmic correspondence
*harmonic-mathematical nature of creation |
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| responsible for developing the initial Renaissance style in Florence |
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architect, sculptor, painter, musician, poet, theologian, philosopher, theorist
-. seminal writings on paintings, architexture, family
-reflect basic paternalistic sexist view of his time |
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- known for neo-pagan mythological and allegorical works.
The Birth of Venus and La Primavera
adopt the large scale of traditional altera paintings, through pictorial treatments betray private expressive and decorative purposes |
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father of modern sculpture
produce free-standing statues, DAVID |
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produces the FIRST LIFE SIZE NUDE in the round since antiquity, bronze
*a key Reaissance work |
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spends fifty years in production, re-inventingthe lost wax casting method of romans.
* work on doors plays an increasing naturalism, greater use of perspective & idealization, producing terms THE GATES OF PARADISE |
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acute vision and scientific naturalism
focused and searching study of nature and reality
exemplified use of light and shade SFUMATO |
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| paintings of Leonardo da Vinci |
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The Last Supper
Madonna of the Rocks
La Gioconda (Mona Lisa) |
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has a wide knowledge and understanding far beyond times of many subjects and science, including:
-biology
-astronmy
-physiology
-hydrodynamics
-mechanics
-aeronaturics |
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sculptor, painter, architext, engineer, poet,
paradigm of expressive and self-willed artist
considered the consummate artist of the High Reanissance |
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-physical expertise as well as intellectual component,
the ideals og frandeur and submlimity
beauty
raises visual arts to level of poetry, theology, and philosophy |
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Michelangelo
*realism in the service of idealism |
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| that through God's illuminating touch, life was given. Even if you just focus on the touch (or untouch, really), it seems that every facet of human emotion and existence is apparent -- love, passion, suffering... |
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| Creation of Adam - Michelangelo |
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The Last Supper
Sistine Chapel
David
Creation of Man |
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consummate drafstman, fusing expressiveness with idealization
-paragon of an artistic classicism of invention, vigor, and clarity
*fuses realism and idealism, truthfulness awith idealization of paragon of classicim |
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| a series of humanist-inspired and very worldly popes coupled with political instability in Florence, leads to Rome becoming the cultural center of the Italian renaissance during the first half of the 16th century |
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| large scale papal projects as well as the patronage of curial cardinals, churchmen, foreign ambassadors and representitives, produces a flowering of the artistic endeavor which constitutes well into the 17th century |
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| Papal and ecclesiastical patronage |
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realism in the service of idealism, the artists of this period produce unexceled, heroic masterpieces.
*foremostly shapes the Western ideal of human body and mind, disciplined physical and intellectual deveopment of mens sana in corpore san |
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HIGH renaissance
a sound mind in a sound body |
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