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HUM 2232
Renaissance to Baroque
Jules Michelet
French historian was
first to use the term
Renaissance in 1858
Jacob Burckhardt
His use of the
term in 1860
made it it a
permanent fixture
Giorgio Vassari
Lives of the
Artists Referred
to the age
between Greco-
Roman and
Renaissance as
the “degenerate
period” and first
to call it the
Middle Ages. It
stuck!
Signifies the rediscovery and utilization of ancient virtues, skills, knowledge, and culture which had been lost in the barbarous centuries follow the fall of Rome in the West c. fifth century A.D. ~Paul Johnson
Most generations, however, look back to some golden ageThe 9th century under CharlemagneThe 12th century under Hildebrand who formed what
later became universities Events like these may be called a proto-
renaissance and from them universities like Notre Dame and Oxford emerged
Renaissance
But why didn’t the proto-renaissances spread and sustain themselves
Two Reasons:Money ~ “The root of all civilization is money” ~ Will
Durant In late Middle Ages wealth was being produced in great
quantityOccupations of large-scale commerce and banking florishedWith the accumulation of wealth came the patronage of the
art, architecture, literature, and music
The Human Elementhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3byt7xMSCAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpydugTkt1U
Renaissance
The Human Element http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsCG26886
w8http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpydugTkt1
UMoney can buy art, but only if there are
craftsmen to produce itThe late Middle Ages, and the transitional
14th century had an abundance of both money and craftsmen
Renaissance
Workshops of all kinds emerged specializing in intermediate technology:Stone LeatherMetalWoodPlasterChemicalsFabricsMachinery
Families of those who worked in these shops produced the art
The Renaissance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsCkgX2epFw&feature=related
The Black Death
Important Figures Roles
Charles IV (France) King of France (Last Capetian king)
King Edward III (England) Nephew of Charles IV
King Phillip VI Believed himself to successor of Charles IV
The Black Prince Son of Edward III (English General)
Henry V King of England (succeeded Edward III & lead military)
Joan of Arc French leader (at age 13 heard the voice of God & led the French to victory at siege of Orleans)
Hundred Years War
Stages Dates Battles Victor
1st 1340-1356 Crecy &Poitiers
England
2nd 1364-1372 La Rochelle France
3rd 1415-1424 Agincourt England
4th 1428-1453 Siege of Orleans
France
Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBSH3IoFZsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpswyzn-LZA
The Hundred Years War
The Black Plague (1348)The Hundred Years War (1337-1453)The Great Schism (1309-1376)
Review of Important Dates
Dante (1265-1321) Dante the man
Born in Florence Exiled for criticism of government
and church Dante the poet
Classical influence Christian influence Italian influence
Dante the pilgrim “Midway in the journey of our life I
found myself in a dark wood…how hard to say what a harsh thing was that wood savage and rough and hard”
Divine Comedy Inferno - Hell Purgatorio - Purgatory Paradiso – Paradise Sacramental view of the world &
history – Beatrice and Virgil
Inferno – Hell “Ye who enter, abandon all hope.” “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great
moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” “The path to paradise begins in hell.” “Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ” “The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
Purgatorio – Purgatory Paradiso – Paradise
"My son, you've seen the temporary fire and the eternal fire; you have reached the place past which my powers cannot see. I've brought you here through intellect and art; from now on, let your pleasure be your guide; you're past the steep and past the narrow paths. Look at the sun that shines upon your brow; look at the grasses, flowers, and the shrubs born here, spontaneously, of the earth. Among them, you can rest or walk until the coming of the glad and lovely eyes-yourself." [Virgil's last words to Dante as he gives Dante the power to guide himself. Canto XXVII, Purgatorio]
Divine Comedy
Love The center of the center is love Love, then, is the very center of Divine Comedy Virgil - all sin is a distorted attempt at love Purgatory does is realign, purify and redirect our love It is love which gives rise to all our actions, and it is love "which
moves the sun and the other stars” Sin is a failure or misdirection of love
Ordinate Inordinate
Love too little = slothful Love too much = lustful
Sacramental view of the world & history – Beatrice and Virgil 'O light and honor of all other poets, may my long study and the
intense love that made me search your volume serve me now. You are my master and my author, you-the only one from whom my writing drew the noble style for which I have been honored.'"
Divine Comedy
Petrarch (1304-1374)Father of humanismAugustinian
influenceInfluence of Cicero &
Virgil Latin Scholar –
discovered and copied many ancient texts
His love – Laura
BaccaccioThe Decameron The plague