renaissance in the early modern world Flashcards
antecedents from renaissance in the early modern world
Plague (rats, fleas, people)
Crusades
Natural disasters (earthquakes, drought, and people think the world is about to end)
Fall of Rome/Ottoman Occupation/Byzantine Conquest
Papacy’s societal centralism weakens:
Famine
1417 Schism
Then focus on revitalization, tourism, banking
some wanted (some wish to go back to Rome bc was the last time where the world was unified, and structured)
Powerful, literate elite
Geographic relationship to Rome/exceptionalism (think they are better)
Italian dependency upon merchant trade and can emphasis on literacy
Nobility profit from peace, unlike other Medieval leaders
Post-Crusades Eastern trade
defining the renaissance
Privileging of a distant, golden past (studies of Greek, Latin, art)
Merging of past, present, future
Emphasis on individualism
Caught between Christian communalism and secular individualism
Contemplative modes about death give way to celebrations of life
Religious humanism
Cosmopolitanism (getting to traveled in mutiple places, someone in rome can go to venice and more wise after from a historian and religious person)
19th Century Historians name the period
Florence
Medicis family (are blamed for locking a pope in a tower, and are a banker family) (papus power is weakened and can bribe pirate to be a pope)
Bankers and titans of industry
“We have bought ourselves a pope. Now what should we do with him?”
They also love art to think about life death, and religon
4 main reinssacance artists
michelangelo rome , (1475-1564) party dude and mainly a scuplture (the scuplture of Pieta and Davidmade of limestone and older), and a free thinker, he looked at people’s anatomy as reference
Lenorado- prototype for flight, paint Mona Lisa, The Sistine Chapel, a papal chapel of the Vatican Palace in Rome, the frescoes depict scenes drawn from the Bible’s Old Testament, and eventually fired because he depicted God as the brain)
Donatello (1386-1466) a sculpture of moses and david was different than Michalengo bc his was smaller, granite, and has armor)
Raphael (1483-1520) the quirkest, potray a celestial being as baby as angels and have black wings) he potrayed jesus as human and dead- controversial as he was seen as divine- called The Deposition
Machiavelli (aka Michael Scott-avelli)-wrote the Little Prince. He said better fear.
Venice
built on a bunch of different islands
Arsenal
Canals
Ottoman Access-
Dante’s Inferno- Heaven is space, and purgatory is a mountain, and Hell and pursues after finding his dead girlfriend in heaven but she gets eaten by the dragon
99%
Reinassance art relates to the majority as seeing how jesus is human and elements of resiance such as?
