Carolingian Renaissance

The Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Northern Europe brought a “revival” to the arts. A prosperous middle class arose and were able to purchase artist’s art work. Many of these pieces had religious themes, their style and creativity, made for more pieces to be created. All over Northern Europe artwork thrived. Within the 15th century both Masaccio and Van Eyck share great religious values of Christian faith within their paintings. The notion of God and saints is very noticeable because each…

changed with the emergence of the Renaissance which represented the revival of antiquity, the “perfecting of the individual” and increased secularism. This period also marked the birth of humanism, which was a newfound interest in the classics. Individualism also arose, as emphasis was put on the man, his capabilities and unbounded potential. This idea of individualism also became of prime importance in the reformist ideas of Martin Luther and John Calvin. The Renaissance and the Reformation had…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of greatness, it was the epoch of death, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of fine dining and hope, it was the winter of disease and despair, they had everything before them, they had nothing before them. 1 “In the Early Middle Ages, the production and consumption of food were closely linked despite the presence of the market,…

Raffaello Sanzio was born on April 6th, 1483 in Urbino, Italy. He began painting in 1504 as an apprentice under Perugino. Raphael is best known for his series of “Madonnas” he painted while in Rome and in 1514, Pope Julius II hired him as his chief architect. A Madonna is Christin religious art, especially the depiction of the Virgin Mary. At he time he was hired as the Pope’s chief architect, he had just finished his last work in a famous series of Madonnas, an oil painting by the name of…

different views and occurrences. The first source I would refer to is the Italian Renaissance Reader. From 1300-1700 was when the Renaissance occurred and this book gives you an idea of who all the best writers, scholars, painters, poets, architects, and power family names were. Each selection represents a person from one or many of those fields to talk about how they lived and worked in the Renaissance. The Renaissance was widely known for producing all these great fields of talented artists…

Question two Who was Marsilio Ficino and why are his ideas important Marsilio Ficino was a priest, a doctor, and a musician. He is however known for his works as an author and a philosopher. He was one of the greatest figures of the Italian Renaissance. He played a significant role in the discovery of classical learning by translating several ancient texts into Latin. Ficino used his powerful intellectual and spiritual ideas by using an approach that makes spirituality be part of the total…

Giotto di Bondone was an Italian painter and architect from Florence during the Late Middle Ages. He is generally considered to be the most important Italian painter of the fourteenth century, revered as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian ma sters. One of his most famous depictions of Christ is this image of the crucifixion, probably painted between 1288 and 1289, which came to be known as the Giotto Crucifix. https ://www.mycatholicgifts.com/giotto -…

Josquin des Prez is a Renaissance composer that was born in northern France in the year 1450. During his early years he spent his time in Cambrai where some of his earliest work is recorded during the early 1470’s. He spent most of his early years in Italy where he entered into the services of the Duke of Hercules of Ferrara in 1502. In 1505 he left Ferrara upon the death of the duke and became the provost of the collegiate church of Notre Dame. Josquin was one of the first composers whose…

Art History 1 Singh, Satendra Satyam Writing Assignment 1, Topic 1 Looking through the history of depiction of human figure yields several similarities and differences in the development of depicting the human form throughout the art represented from the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Aegean, and Greek cultures. Humans throughout the ages have been depicted time and time again; these representations share several similarities and differences. The people of the Paleolithic Ages survived through a…

Michelangelo left Medici’s court and returned to his father’s house. In the next months, Michelangelo carved the wooden crucifix that he promised to the church in exchange to study human biology. In between the years of 1493 to 1494 (Michelangelo was 18 in 1493 and 19 in 1494 during this time) Michelangelo had purchased a large block of marble and carved and chiseled a large statue of Hercules, but was later on sent to France and eventually disappeared sometime circa 18th century. In January…