In full, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, could be considered one of the most, perhaps the most, esteemed artists of the 17th century. During the Dutch Golden Age, his unique techniques, as well as others’ techniques learned, had shaped his well-known art career. Naturally, his art had developed greatly throughout his life. He persistently searched for new and different styles to demonstrate through his art. Rembrandt van Rijn was born on July 15, 1606 in Leiden, Netherlands.…
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. He is known as the “Renaissance man.” Today he is best known for his art, including a couple of paintings that are still a few of the world’s most famous and admired, The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Art, da Vinci believed, was connected with science and nature. Self-educated, he filled dozens of secret notebooks with inventions, observations and theories.…
Renaissance Observation Paper The painting that I selected was “Forest Fire” by Piero di Cosimo. Piero di Cosimo was a Florentine painter of the Italian Renaissance. He was born on January 2, 1462, and died on April 12, 1522. He created this painting in 1505, at the age of 43, about a decade before his death.…
In the Middle Ages the population of towns and cities in Europe began to grow. The growth of trade fairs and markets along with advancements in farming, such as the heavy plow that lead to increased food production, caused this growth in population. People's lives in the Medieval Times was controlled by different systems that told them how to live and what their job was. Merchants were in control of the trade system over the Silk Road, which provided the country of Europe new goods and a way to obtain them. The rest of the people, which includes lords, nobles, serfs and commoners, were told what job was theirs and who to serve in that job by the feudalism and manorialism systems.…
Chapter 10 is entitled The Flowering of the Middle Ages. The main subject of this chapter is that in contrast to the Eastern Empire, Western Europe governments began to coalesce into more “centralized” administrations with paid officials who acted on behalf of the king enabling the nobility to support new forms of art and literature. The authors’ purpose in this chapter is to argue that the power of the nobility in Western Europe changed from a personal to territorial perspective allowing for the beginning of a more unified government administration to rule over large areas of land.1 One piece of key evidence that the authors’ use to support their case is the formation of the exchequer, or financial bureau, of England, where all fines and…
Albrecht Durer is considered to be one a master of the Northern Renaissance as well as possibly being the greatest engraver of all time. All this reverence is well-deserved though, as he is one of the few artists at the time to successfully integrate the stylistic components typical of both the Northern and Italian Renaissance. Durer was born in Nuremberg and was of German-Netherlandish descent (Sayre 257-8). He traveled to Italy twice in his lifetime, once from 1494-1495 and again from 1505-1507 (“Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)) where he studied the works and methodology of Italian Renaissance artists. From these artists, he gained the knowledge and appreciation of depicting the natural world with scientific accuracy.…
Summary of Holbein: Court Painter of the Reformation Hans Holbein was a prime artist during the Northern Renaissance. Although he was born in Augsburg, Germany, it was in England where he achieved high status, producing works for Henry VIII and other patrons. During his life, Holbein established himself as the one of the leading German artists of the Reformation. However, the article suggests that the artist didn’t necessarily agree with Protestantism. Hans Holbein’s artistic career began in 1514 when he moved from Germany to Basle, Switzerland.…
The Middle Ages in Europe was a time categorized in a few different topics. Some might say that the Middle Ages was an age of faith, an age of feudalism, a dark age, or a golden age. The Middle Ages was an age of feudalism and faith because faith was based around daily life, and feudalism categorized the people into groups and the faith unified them. In the Middle Ages feudalism was the unwritten rules that determined the relationship between a lord and vassals.…
The Renaissance (French for Rebirth) was a period in European civilization. The Renaissance also witnessed the discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudal system and the growth of commerce, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper, printing, gunpowder, and mariner's compass. Many ideas and inventions were created during this time period. One big aspect of this period was humanism. Humanism was initiated by secular men of letters.…
Renaissance Era The Renaissance era has influenced the world of today in every aspect of it. Not only did it influence but also improved the world. The Renaissance has changed the way we think and act.…
The First Confession by Hermann von Kaulbach is located at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California (Figure 1). The Crocker Art Museum was originally built by the Crocker family in 1872. Ironically, the museum was built during the lifetime of Hermann Kaulbach. The Crocker is a California Historical Landmark and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It houses over fifteen thousand items including American Art, European Art, Photography and Ceramics.…
Despite the heretical view of Eriugena’s writing by subsequent Christian philosophers, the Early Middle Ages made great strides in the area of logic. In fact, Spade (2016) notes that one may regard the Early Middle Age as being: one of the three great, original periods in the history of logic [and] the peculiarly medieval contributions to logic were developed and cultivated to a very high degree. It was no longer a matter of interpreting Aristotle, or commenting on the works of the “Old Logic” or the “New Logic”; wholly new genres of logical writing sprang up, and entirely new logical and semantic notions were developed. (p. 16)…
The Middle Ages were a period of both great devastation and mediocre advancement around the discovered world. The "Low Middle Ages" or the "Dark Ages" came in succession to the fall of Rome and held the development of feudalism. Feudalism sustained itself and oppressed the formation of new ideas until approximately 1100. An idea came about that was essentially the turning point of the Middle Ages. Up until this point, humanity thought that their sole purpose was to worship God-…
The Early Middle Ages, from the fifth to the tenth century, is often referred to as the “Dark Ages.” In comparison to the flourishing Roman Empire, many did not believe the Middle Ages to be a time of flourishing literacy and culture. However, learned men during this period were interested in the lost texts of the ancients, especially after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Etymologiae (the Etymologies in English, and also known as “Origins”), by Isidore of Seville, is a compilation of important concepts for the “learned world,” whose information was extracted from Greco-Roman, and early Christian worlds (Isidore 3; Introduction). While this text contains a great amount of information for contemporary scholars, the purpose of this paper…
The Middle Ages began in 500 CE after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and ended in 1350 CE. People of this time lived in a feudal system. Their social hierarchy started at the bottom with peasants, then knights, then nobles, then the king. These people were very religious and dedicated to the Catholic church. The rise of education and universities is what kept this period from being completely dark.…