The Italian Renaissance was a very difficult time period in European history. The arts were flourishing‚ while the city-states in Italy fought bloody battles with each other and within themselves. Bribery and murder were not uncommon tools for men to use when they wanted power. Meanwhile those same rulers patronized the arts a great deal and they would commission the best artistic minds of the time to build‚ design and paint their palaces and churches and later on their own portraits
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Event: The Italian Renaissance begins Cause People like Petrarch who were obsessed with ancient Greece and ancient Rome; felt that the middle age was a “Dark age”‚ so they recovered the Latin text such as some of Cicero’s work. Fall of Constantinople‚ which Greeks scholars fled to Italy with Ancients texts. Plato’s work was translated in Latin. Another cause is humanism which is the prominent works of Greek‚ Roman‚ and biblical literature. Petrarch is called “The father of humanism”. The Printing
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understanding the Italian Renaissance society. Time and again this course has brought me back to William Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ and the challenge here is irresistable: to demonstrate how this play assists an understanding of the ideology of the society of the Renaissance‚ with reference to Italy. The play gives the Renaissance a very human and three dimensional face. The story is set in Denmark‚ the author is English‚ and so perhaps the ideology is more generally European than specifically Italian; but that
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Looking Assignment One The Renaissance period in art manifested itself differently in the various Italian city-states as the artists in those cities expressed the ideals in their own way. As the style shifted into the High Renaissance‚ the concepts of ordered space and mathematical precision came to the forefront of artistic thought‚ especially among the Italian artists. This focus on an intellectual approach to art came as the result of a perceived lack of such intellectualism during the medieval
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A pigment is a natural coloring matter that usually comes from a plant or animal. Today‚ there are synthetic pigments with the advancement of technology‚ but during the Italian Renaissance they did not have these luxuries. They had to obtain their pigment naturally. There were different classifications of pigment‚ each producing a different desired color. The material that contained the desired pigment had to be grinded very finely‚ and then the pigment would need to be added to a base to create
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Jennifer Rider Professor Elenor TA 430 December 12th‚ 2012 The Italian Renaissance Fashion An age of artistic endeavors‚ inventive innovations‚ and of some of the most premier fashions in clothing‚ the Italian Renaissance was a birth of art‚ knowledge and of course‚ style. “Toward the end of the 14th century AD‚ a handful of Italian thinkers declared that they were living in a new age. The barbarous‚ unenlightened “Middle Ages” were over‚ they said; the new age would be a “rinascità” (“rebirth”)
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representation of women back in the Italian Renaissance era? It is preposterous as to how little to no freedom a woman was given compared to now. Women in this era were looked at as inferior to males and had many restricted rights. Their role in society back then was mainly to be in charge of taking care of the house‚ and bearing a lot of children. The term renaissance means “rebirth”‚ it has been questioned by the historian Joan Kelly as to whether women even had a renaissance like men did because they are
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The Italian Renaissance is typically viewed as a momentous period for growth in knowledge and advancements in society. The equality between men and women is one of the first things some historians‚ such as Bruckhardt and Kelly-Gadol use to display society from that time period. There were certain expectancies out of the people as described by Bruni in his letter to Battista Malatesta (c. 1405)‚ and Vergerio in his letter to Ubertino (1392). Castiglione had a text called The Courtier‚ which gave
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Renaissance Humanism encompasses the philosophy that people are capable of truth and goodness. Much of this ideology and philosophy representing art and literature‚ whose roots are deeply planted in classic Latin‚ came to the forefront in the Fifteenth Century. Art and literature in the Fifteenth Century were a revival of “Greek and Roman studies‚ which emphasized the value of the classics for their own sake‚ rather than for their relevance to Christianity” (Hunter & Payne‚ 2003). Humanists
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Mannerism: The anti-High Renaissance The height of Italian Renaissance art had reached its summit in the late 15th century with the advent of the three masters of the High Renaissance: Leonardo‚ Michelangelo‚ and Raphael. Their works of art exhibited the pinnacle of man’s aesthetic ability in creating realistic depiction of the world through anatomically detailed human bodies‚ harmonious perspectival space‚ and emphasis on uniformity derived from nature. However this astounding progress in artistic
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