The Renaissance: Accurate Or Inaccurate Representation At The Fair
The Renaissance
There can be a lot of debate about what all was accurate or inaccurate representation at the fair as most events were set up purely for entertainment and not so much educational purposes. Right off from the start as soon as you entered the fair grounds it was pretty safe to assume that there were most likely no walking and talking trees during the Renaissance era. That was a clear demonstration of something inaccurate and unrealistic, more for show than anything. Although there was a good mix of things that could be considered more realistic then others, the majority of events and acts were clearly not meant to be all that historically correct but more of just a form of enjoyable entertainment to attract people. It’s safe to …show more content…
Knights and other soldiers were expected to train and practice their techniques to keep their skills up to date. Of course, the demonstrations were naturally toned down and perhaps not an accurate representation of how the knights dressed or the practice techniques they used. It is also very clear in the demonstrations how the moves are choreographed with no intention of engaging in intense combat with one another. Compared to how knights used to intensively train, most likely with intent to temporarily incapacitate each other as a means of practice. Eventually there was also a catapult demonstration performed. The catapult was admitted to being a much smaller and scaled down version but it still functioned as well as a normal catapult would. However, it is highly doubtful that real catapults were used for firing fruit. Other than that the representation of the catapult is considered to be one of the more accurate …show more content…
The reawakening of new art styles took place in the thirteenth century Renaissance, (Noble, et al, 351). Although the majority of the artwork being sold at the fair was not actually done in Renaissance style. There was however one booth where an artist was working on a live painting based off of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Da Vinci’s art is considered to be one of the best examples of high Renaissance art (Noble, et al 353). So, seeing some classic Renaissance art even if only a small imitation was still quite
There can be a lot of debate about what all was accurate or inaccurate representation at the fair as most events were set up purely for entertainment and not so much educational purposes. Right off from the start as soon as you entered the fair grounds it was pretty safe to assume that there were most likely no walking and talking trees during the Renaissance era. That was a clear demonstration of something inaccurate and unrealistic, more for show than anything. Although there was a good mix of things that could be considered more realistic then others, the majority of events and acts were clearly not meant to be all that historically correct but more of just a form of enjoyable entertainment to attract people. It’s safe to …show more content…
Knights and other soldiers were expected to train and practice their techniques to keep their skills up to date. Of course, the demonstrations were naturally toned down and perhaps not an accurate representation of how the knights dressed or the practice techniques they used. It is also very clear in the demonstrations how the moves are choreographed with no intention of engaging in intense combat with one another. Compared to how knights used to intensively train, most likely with intent to temporarily incapacitate each other as a means of practice. Eventually there was also a catapult demonstration performed. The catapult was admitted to being a much smaller and scaled down version but it still functioned as well as a normal catapult would. However, it is highly doubtful that real catapults were used for firing fruit. Other than that the representation of the catapult is considered to be one of the more accurate …show more content…
The reawakening of new art styles took place in the thirteenth century Renaissance, (Noble, et al, 351). Although the majority of the artwork being sold at the fair was not actually done in Renaissance style. There was however one booth where an artist was working on a live painting based off of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. Da Vinci’s art is considered to be one of the best examples of high Renaissance art (Noble, et al 353). So, seeing some classic Renaissance art even if only a small imitation was still quite