Chapter 12 Renaissance Flashcards
(44 cards)
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giorgo vasari
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- renaissance
- artists could exhibit virtu
- did not exclude when searching for models of talent
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Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (1452-1498)
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- Preached to large crowds in Florence, made predictions that God would punish Italy for corrupt leadership
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Medici family ruled in
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- Florence, then got kicked out because they were accused of having corrupt leadership
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Italy was
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unorganized
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Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374):
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- Florentine poet and scholar
- peak writing was in ancient Rome, believed that a golden age would come about if they returned to peak writing, and he was witnessing that peak writing come back right now
- father of humanism
- thought julius caesar’s transformation of Rome from republic -> empire was a betrayal
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Leonardo Bruni (1374-1444)
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- Humanist historian and Florentine city official
- Linked the decline of Latin language to the decline of the Roman republic
- Divided ancient, medieval, modern
- liked republicanism
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Platonic takes on love
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- spiritual desire for pure, perfect beauty uncorrupted by bodily desires
- Best way to learn something was to think about it in its most perfect form
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
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- Student of Ficino, believed universe was a hierarchy
- Believed God was at the top, humanity in the middle as the link
- Was arrested for heresy because of his beliefs of hierarchy, but was let free via Lorenzo de’ Medici
- Pico followed Savonarola
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Leonardo da Vinci
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- Wanted to reproduce what the eye could see, drew executed criminals, beauties of nature, studied bodies
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Leon Battista Alberti
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- Several list of achievements; writes “he” instead of “I” when congratulating himself
- domestic life for women
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Humanist takes on education (general)
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- study would help them with growth
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humanist takes on education for women
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- Wondered whether a program of study that emphasized eloquence and action was proper for women
- Women were bold in claims about value of new learning
- Humanist academies were not open to women, but few women became educated themselves
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Baldassare Castiglione
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- The Courtier (1528)
- men should fit prerequisites
- Music, education, order, speaking, math, ride horses, sing
- Women should be well-educated, be able to paint, dance, play a musical instrument. Should be beautiful and modest
- Was translated into several European languages, influenced patterns of conduct of elite groups in Renaissance and early modern Europe
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Ideal rulers
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- difficult to find, humanists looked to the classical past for models
- educated men in political affairs
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Niccolo Machiaveli (1469-1527)
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- Most well-known civic humanist and political theorist
- The Prince (1513), examples of rulers to argue that one should preserve order and security
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Christian humanists
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- Northern humanists that interpreted Italian ideas about attitudes toward classical antiquity and humanism in terms of their own religious traditions
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Thomas More (1478-1535)
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Utopia (1516)
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Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
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- In praise of folly – made fun of religious institutions
- translated new testament to latin
- criticized the church
- focused on inner spirituality and morality
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Patronage who
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- Lorenzo de Medici
- Pope Julius II (Sistine)
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Giotto (1276-1337) i
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Florentine painter that used realism
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Piero della Francesca (1420-1492) and Andrea Mantegna (1430-1506) i
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Perspective
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Donatello (1386-1466) i
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Sculptor, balance and awareness
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Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) i
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Classical past gave him inspiration for art, balance and harmony
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Northern European art was
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- more religious
- portrayed every day life
- patronage from secular and religious elites
- printing press was very important
- less influenced by rome and greece
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Northern European artists
Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck
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Albrecht Durer n
- northern european rensiassance artist
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titian
- mannerism, painting techniques w out elaborate process
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Italian Renaissance was
- focused on human forms, symmetry, perspective
- ninja turtles
- mythology
- patronage from the wealthy
- printing press was not as important
- rome and greece were crucial
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Most slaves in the 15th century ended up in
Spain and Portugal
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large scale agricultural slaves didn’t grow until late
15th century
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Italian nobility in the 15th century
- integrated into new social elite of wealth, bought noble titles
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sumptuary laws
- merchants were allowed to wear fur, prostitutes had to wear yellow bands etc etc
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Debate about women is in the
14th century
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Charles VII (French)
- revived monarchy in France, reconciled the burgndians and armagnacs
- taxed lands
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Louis XI (French)
- Charles VII's son
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Louis XII
- married Anne of Brittany, added more land
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Concordat of Bologna
- pope could take income of newly named bishops in France, Leo X had to recognize French ruler's right to select said French bishops and abbots
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War of the Roses
York and Lancaster civil war
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Edward IV
- ended war of the roses, defeated lancastrian forces and brought monarchical rule
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Henry VII
- court of star chamber used to deal with aristocratic threats
- expelled nobility
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Spain before the 17th century
- not united
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1492
- Edict expels all Jews from Spain, Muslims are forcibly baptized
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Why did Jews originally come to Spain?
- France and England expelled Jews, they sought refuge in Spain
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14th century anti semitism in Spain
- anti jewish preaching
