Carolingian Renaissance

Canterbury Tales Humans perceive things in a certain way. These perceptions are shaped by processes such as drives and expectations. One might create an image of someone or something, but that image might be completely imaginative. The Canterbury Tales’ Prologue tells the story of certain group of people during the Medieval Period. In the Prologue, characters’ traits and personalities show a contrast with those who actually lived during the Medieval Period. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer…

“The Medieval Mind” explains: “Intellectual life had vanished from Europe,” (3). In “The Shattering”, “But Luther knew he could be more effective… if he addressed his people in simple German…” (166), he tells of a turn of events that lead to the Renaissance and lastly, Magellan himself is explained in “One Man Alone”: “He had never before been reckless, imprudent, careless, or forgetful...But he had not been a soldier of Christ then,” (276). All of which explain the most simple main ideas of…

The European Renaissance was a cultural movement that lasted from the 14th to the 16th centuries. It was a cultural and social change revolution, that was characterized as ingenuity, imagination and creativity. This time of the year is known for the contribution to today’s society where many new artists find inspiration from Donatello, Raffaello Sanzio, Sandro Botticelli among other great contributors. Also during that time Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni and Leonardo di ser Piero da…

Artists of the Renaissance era were revered for their sacred mastery of art, which caused them to be as equally high in the social structure as those of royalty. The general public of the time viewed artists as nothing short of gifted geniuses in their respective craft. The masterminds of the period, lasting roughly from 14th - 16th century AD, climbed the social ladder through their recreation of Latin Literature and of the figurative arts.¹ Each initially had no reputation or fame to any…

The Baroque period was a magnificent era. Filled with new ideas and simply extravagant art. From the alluring paintings drawing you into their beauty to the sculptures that appear as real people. The Baroque period was sincerely a grandiose time. A honorable representation of this time would be Bernini’s David and Pozzo’s Apotheosis of Saint Ignatius. These two works of art are similar in only trivial ways such as they both have a religious background. Bernini’s David is the representation of…

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28th 1577 in the town of Siegen in Westphalia (now Germany). “He is one of seven children of a wealthy lawyer. Juan Rubens and while his mother Maria Pypelincks was cultured and educated & . Rubens father was a legal adviser and lover to Anna of Saxony who was the wife of William I of Orange. William I was the main leader of the Dutch revolt against the Spanish. Peter Paul Rubens father was imprisoned for the affair in 1570 however, he was released…

The Battle of San Romano was created by Paolo Uccello in c. 1438-40. It is currently at the National Gallery in London. This artwork’s medium is egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar panel. The painting depicts part of the the Battle of San Romano where the Florentines fight against the Sienese, specifically when Florentine’s ally, Micheletto da Cotignola counterattacks the enemy. This painting was one of the three panels of the Battle of San Romano. We can see the main figure,…

For my Experience paper I choose to go to the Art Institute of Chicago. Our adventure began when my family and I got in the car and drove to the Art Institute of Chicago. When, we got there we saw the amazing building and the big Lion statue. When I got there I saw the things that were around the building. I was so impress that the building had a lot of details around it. It had images and writing in the top of the like “Anno Domini” which means The year of the lord. That, name just gives us…

Caravaggio and Vermeer One of the most influential painters during the sixteenth century, Michelangelo Merisi, mastered his view of light and dark to build on his artistic ability. Michelangelo Merisi, otherwise known as Caravaggio, was an artist based off of revolutionary paintings and public scandal, started his career in Rome in 1593 (Sayre 701). Equivalent to most musical composers during the Baroque era, Caravaggio was supported by a patron. To start his career as an artist, Caravaggio…

Anne Hollander discusses the depiction of cloth by 16th century Italian artists. Explaining that artists used clothing and drapery as an expressive means and not necessarily to portray the actual way that cloth lay and formed folds against the body, Hollander introduces early portraits of the century. Discussing the artwork Hans Holbein the Younger’s Henry XII (c. 1537) and Titian’s La Bella (1536), Hollander points out the great attention to detail of the fabrics worn by the sitter, the trend…