More Renaissance

• Isabella d'Este continued
• a fashionista, designed her own perfume
• patron of da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bellini, Correggio, and many others
• "Nativity," by Antonio da Corregio
• 1529-1530
• 101 by 74 in
• Uses Jesus as light source, he is the center of attention on the painting
• Humanism
• A deep interest in what people have already achieved, as well as what they are capable of achieving in the future
• Humanism resembles the Greek idea of arete
• secular values were concerned with here and now
• Classical Greek and Roman writings were important
• Christian values were still important but separate from secular values
• Renaissance Man & Woman
• Someone who could muster many fields of work
• Perfect Renaissance Man: Leonardo da Vinci
• Perfect Renaissance Woman- Isabella d'Este
• Art
• Sculptors
• made realistic figures called pieta
• The Pieta was carved in marble by Michelangelo from 1498-1499
• currently in St. Peters Basilica in Vatican City
• depicts Mary holding the dead body of Jesus
• Painters
• used perspective by adding shadow and depth to paintings
• Sometimes used Frescoes
• A technique of mural painting where pant is painted on freshly lane plaster
• The pigment merges with the plaster so the painting becomes part of the wall.
• Literature
• wrote in Vernacular- their native language
• Previously, most scholarly writing was Latin or Greece
• now, literature was to the masses
• Wrote to express thoughts and feelings
• examples
• Shakespeare wrote in English
• Dante Alighieri wrote about Hell in Italian. Wrote "The Divine Comedy"
• the theme of Machiavelli’s The Prince was that the aims of princes—such as glory and survival—can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends