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The black plague spread quickly throughout Europe. In Tuscany the death rate ran high from 60 percent. They had no explanation for the plague and some blamed the Jews. Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of stories that represented life during and after the plague. The stories are about a boy and a woman who escaped Florence and moved to the countryside. Boccaccio who had lived through the plague wrote 100 stories about it describing in details what the setting in Florence was like when the plague hit it. The plague inspired these stories because at one point everyone was surrounded by death and life after the plague was just as bad. Losing everyone you know to a disease nobody understands was a horrible time. Geoffrey Chaucer was the first Englishman to translate Petrarch and was able to read both Ovid and Virgil in the original Latin. The Canterbury Tales is a …show more content…
Bruges had a waterway that ended in the middle of the city where ships could export and import various good through the North Sea. The city had a strong merchant class and the Medici family had their banking interests here too. The wealthy class in Bruges supported the arts, which is why painting was an economic commodity for the city. There was a large community of painters in Bruges. Antwerp was also a center of commerce. Burges canal system actually helped them become a center of commerce. Bruges canal system had built up with silt, which made it possible for large ships to sail into the harbor. Ships from many different places would sail into the harbour filled with paintings and Antwerp would sell many of the artwork at its fair. Commerce made art more popular in northern Europe because it was exported and imported from various places and was sold everywhere. Artists had a lot of support too because of the wealthy class and the demand for paintings in the northern
The black plague spread quickly throughout Europe. In Tuscany the death rate ran high from 60 percent. They had no explanation for the plague and some blamed the Jews. Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of stories that represented life during and after the plague. The stories are about a boy and a woman who escaped Florence and moved to the countryside. Boccaccio who had lived through the plague wrote 100 stories about it describing in details what the setting in Florence was like when the plague hit it. The plague inspired these stories because at one point everyone was surrounded by death and life after the plague was just as bad. Losing everyone you know to a disease nobody understands was a horrible time. Geoffrey Chaucer was the first Englishman to translate Petrarch and was able to read both Ovid and Virgil in the original Latin. The Canterbury Tales is a …show more content…
Bruges had a waterway that ended in the middle of the city where ships could export and import various good through the North Sea. The city had a strong merchant class and the Medici family had their banking interests here too. The wealthy class in Bruges supported the arts, which is why painting was an economic commodity for the city. There was a large community of painters in Bruges. Antwerp was also a center of commerce. Burges canal system actually helped them become a center of commerce. Bruges canal system had built up with silt, which made it possible for large ships to sail into the harbor. Ships from many different places would sail into the harbour filled with paintings and Antwerp would sell many of the artwork at its fair. Commerce made art more popular in northern Europe because it was exported and imported from various places and was sold everywhere. Artists had a lot of support too because of the wealthy class and the demand for paintings in the northern