Girolamo Savonarola

Such people like Dante Aligheri, Niccolo` Machiavelli, and Girolamo Savonarola were key components in this respect. Dante Alifgheri was born in Florence, in the year 1285, were he lived a normal life until adulthood. He was exiled when a opposing family took control of Florence, which was extending for the rest of his…

The Renaissance was a time of rebirth, when society moved away from the religious focus of the Middle Ages and back towards the Classical views of ancient Greece and Rome, focusing on nature, humanism, and individualism. Sandro Botticelli, a Florentine painter known for works such as The Birth of Venus, captures the essence of this revolutionary time period in his numerous masterpieces. Today, he is recognized as one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance. It is clear that the works of…

Although pagan imagery such as Greek and Roman mythology grew common during the Renaissance period, many priests and preachers still did not approve of it. Among them was an Italian friar and preacher named Girolamo Savonarola, who began to have an impact on the people of Florence on ideas regarding religious artwork during the Renaissance period (Bowen). The first example of Botticelli’s work that questioned authority is his painting “Primavera”, one of the best-known…

3.4 - Heavens Historians Good afternoon gentlemen and welcome to Heavens Historians for September of 1681. I hope that you are all enjoying your deliciously cooked meals of orange salad, smoked tongue, and roast quail. You can thank Plato for the meal, he thought of this meal and therefore, it exists now in our stomachs! Anyway, this week we have a very special speaker. I am sure you have heard of this man, I mean who hasn’t? I’ll give you a hint, he is often called “the founder of modern…

40 years, which removed temporarily from power. Thus, Florence was under control by Girolamo Savonarola a Dominican monk who obsessed to transform Florence into a “Christian City” as he named the city “New Jerusalem”. His action seen as an act of disobedient to Pope Alexander VI and law at that time therefore he arrested and later hanged and burned for his actions. (FOCA RODI, 2013) The death of Girolamo Savonarola, make…

 What led up to the Renaissance?  Fall of Rome & the regression back into Feudalism  The Crusades  The Bubonic Plague  Great geological/trade location  Establishing the city-states  New ideas were mostly inspired by the Romans and the Greeks, who were considered trailblazers Economic and Political Developments/Commercial Developments  Florence was the heart of the Art Renaissance  Northern city-states like Venice, Milan, and Genoa grew wealthy because they had access to the seas…

Renaissance Patronage: A Study of Motivations in Artwork Commissioning Gombrich says in his famous book The Story of Art that art is not a work of artists but that of patrons. This statement emphasizes the significant role that patrons played in the fifteen- century arts. Patronage was not simply the case of the patrons’ paying on their orders. The commercial relationship between artists and their clients in Renaissance was different from that in contemporary art market, where artists paint…

Because of Piero de' Medici’s blunder with the French, the Medici were removed from power in Florence. In its place a theocratic republic under the control of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola (5). It was in this republic that Machiavelli was employed, and he helped establish a civilian militia in Florence. But said militia was defeated when the Spanish, under Charles I, took control of the city and returned the city to Medici rule…