Golden Age Flashcards
Renaissance influenced by
Humanism in Europe
Who did well?
Artists, builders, musicians, writers
Printing press
New ideas
Greater speed
School
New grammar schools and unis
Curriculum broadened
‘Chap books’
Affordable stories told by street peddlers
Musicians
- Orlando Gibbons
- Thomas Tallis
- William Byrd
Nicholas Hilliard
Artist
Miniature portraits of leading personalities
John Dee
Mathematician
Astrologer
John Napier
Discovered logarithms
Historians
William Camden
Richard Hakluyt
Francis bacon
Experiments were needed to test scientific theories
William Gilbert
Blood circulation
William Gilbert
Queen’s doctor
Experimented with electricity
Gentry
Not manual labour
Not nobility
Wealthy
Suspicion of old nobility
Nobles were marginalised
Very few titles granted, government excluded from
Vacuum
Dissolution of the monasteries
Owned a quarter of all land
More land available to buy
Increasing wealth
Growth in trade and exploration
Population growth
Rising prices
Enclosure
Gentry sponsored
Architectural, artistic, intellectual and literary endeavours
Fashion was
Imprwtnt stafus shboo
Statutes of Apparel
Sumptuary laws
1574
Controlled clothes people were allowed to wear based on their social rank
Male fashion
- doublet (silk/satin)
- woollen/silk stockings
- trunk-hose
- jerkin
- ruff
- shoes (leather with cork soles)
- hat
- cloak
- sword
- beard
Female fashion
- Farthingale
- ruff (lace collar)
- under gown (silk or satin)
- gown (satin or velvet)
- over gown
- dyed hair with false hair piled on top heavy white make up (lead, poisonous)
- blackened teeth
- shoes
- a small hat
Great rebuilding
Architectural boom
New buildings
- extravagant country houses built to reflect wealth
- built to impress and host Bess
- no longer needed defensive features (moats, drawbridges)- decorative gardens planted
- built of stone or brick
Robert Smythson
Leading architect
Designed Longleat House in Wiltshire and Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire
Design
- not gothic
- renaissance - Florence
- focussed on symmetry and size
- intricate chimney stacks
- mullioned windows (with leaded glass)
- wattle-and-daub (Speke Hall, Churche’s Mansion)
- bedroom upstairs
- great hall no longer popular
- long gallery used on upper floor to entertain and display art collections
- still no corridors, separate rooms had windows and fireplaces
- decorative plasterwork ceilings, oak-panelled walls, fireplaces, tapestries and libraries
Before her reign
No theatres
Mystery and miracle plays based on bible stories and lives of saints - performed on temporary platforms in market squares and inn yards
Groups of actors
Toured the country
Disliked - especially by puritans because of their ancient roman influences. 1580- earthquake- gods anger
Threat to law and order
Not respectable - no more than beggars
Cult of Elizabeth
- as a result of visual and literary propaganda
- the faerie queen by Edmund Spenser - allegorical epic poem (Gloriana) - she have him a £50 pension per year for life
- queen on coins
- 1570s courtiers flattered her with pics to advance their own careers
- expensive clothing and jewels, allegorical symbols
