Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Sect. 1 Textbook continued


*I am aware that most of the Italian names and words are most likely spelled wrong.
  • Cosimo de Medici died in 1464 and his family continued to control Florence
  • Lerenzo de Medici came to power in 1469
  • Lorenzo the Magnificent
  • Ways in which people were inspired by Rome and Greece
    • The ruins of Rome surrounded their civilization
    • Studied ancient Latin Manuscripts
    • Christians fled to Rome with Greek Manuscripts
  • Humanists studied classical texts to understand Greek Values
  • Humanists popularized History, literature, and philosophy
  • Church leaders, merchants, and wealthy families were patrons
  • Baldassore Castiglone wrote the Courtier that taught how to become a renaissance man
  • The Courtier taught that a young man should be
    • charming
    • witty
    • well educated in the classics
    • dance
    • sing
    • play music
    • write poetry
    • rider
    • wrestler
    • swordsman
  • upper class women according to The Courtier
    • know the classics
    • charming
    • inspired art
  • Donnatello carved natural postures and expression aut of marble
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • painter
  • sculptor
  • scientist
  • incorporated his findings in art
  • painted the Mona Lisa
  • painted The Last Supper
  • wrote mirrored
  • 17 of his painting remained
  • Rapheal Sanzio
    • Famous for his use of Perspective
    • filled the walls of pope Julius II's with paintings
    • painted The School of Athens
    • Painted artist such as Michelangelo, Leonardo, and himself
  • Sodinisha Anguissola was the first woman artist and painted her sisters and king Phillip II of Spain
  • Francisco Petrarch was the most influential Humanist
  • He wrote 14 poems about Laura in Latin and Italian
  • Giovanni Boccaccio wrote the Decmeradon
    •  Realistic, off colored stories
    • told by a group of young people as the plague swept through Florence
    • Both tragic and Comic means of life

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