Slaughterhouse-Five

In this essay I’ll be discussing the history of Baroque art and two artist from that era, Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Then I’ll explain the role of the church during this era and how Caravaggio and Bernini differently conveyed faith and commitment to the church. Lastly, I’ll give my visual analyze on Bernini’s painting Ecstasy of St. Teresa and Caravaggio’s painting Crucifixion of St. Peter. The Baroque era came about from the Reformation which was a religious…

intellectuals and nobles to interpret his writings. Unlike past reformers, the message of Luther easily spread to the general media long before the invention of social media. This co-ordinated public opinion. Thanks to the printing press, the ninety-five theses nailed to the church door in Wittenberg on the thirty first of October 1517, made Luther famous overnight. Here, the role of the printing press allowed for Luther’s message to gain such popular support, while the corrupt nature of the…

John Calvin and Martin Luther were both very signifcatn men during the time of the Protestant Reformation and throughout the Renisance. Although Martin Luther and john Calvin had similars views against the church, they both had different views and thoughts on Political authority and Social order. Martin Luther steamed his ideas of the Reformation with his “theory of justificaon by faith alone. That was basically meaning that one needed to have trust with god in order to be able to go to heaven.…

After many continuous years of warfare the thirty years wars has resulted in many countries invading into the Holy Roman Empire. The Thirty Years War was the product of protestant rebellion after I tried to stop their religious activities. This war involved Sweden, France, Spain and Austria including other major powers in Europe, this war was mostly waged on German soil, the war needed with the Peace of Westphalia. Since this war has blurred the boundaries of the Holy Roman Empire we must reset…

Started by Martin Luther and the creation of Lutheranism reformation of Christianity spread across Europe, reformations like these spread across Europe. The protestant reformation spread throughout Europe with many different sects being created. After losing so many members, the Catholic church realized that they were doing something wrong and had their own reformation which has been deemed the “counter-reformation.” Ultimately the two religious revolutions because the protestant reformation…

The reasoning behind the mix of styles Pontormo’s painting shows may have stemmed from many different sources. In particular, the historical and cultural events surrounding Italy in the early 1500s could have been a factor in the departure from the classicism and naturalism of the High Renaissance. The discovery of Heliocentrism by Copernicus in 1512 was a major deviation from what people had believed to be true for centuries. This dramatic shift in normal thought could have prompted an…

From the standpoint of the Catholic Church it may seem as if Luther was very revolutionary but in actual fact he was not. This is because the Church only found Luther revolutionary because he undermined the Church, when in actual fact he was attempting to reform the Church and return it to its former state . Many of Luther’s ideas were previously taught by the Church, or could be found in the Bible, which meant that they were not new nor original and were just his interpretation of passages from…

WHAT IS THE 95 THESES AND WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT? ( 500 words) Martin Luther was born in Eisleben ,Germany in 1493. He was a monk and a professor at the University of Wittenberg, In Germany. Martin Luther started reading the bible on his own and found out that the Catholic church was selling lies to get rich. He did not like the fact that the church was lying to all these people and the believed every word of it. Luther made the 95 theses and had them printed out on a printer press and he made…

Christianity and the Reformation The 16th century was the age of the Reformation, it lead to the birth of several new religions and the reform of what was the old Catholic Church. Two of the most well known religious leaders of the time period were Henry VIII from France and Martin Luther from Germany. They became very similar in many ways, while still different in others. While Henry and Luther both used their political advantage and declined the church in their own ways, their motives were…

I, the 95 theses, am the greatest thing to ever happen in the Renaissance. I produced a change throughout Italy and, unlike the corrupted priest, I let the truth be known and didn’t lie to the people. I began a revolutionary division even though I started out small, But I allowed change to happen with a greater cause. To begin, my story starts off as young Martin Luther was walking in a hell storm and promised the big man in the sky that he would become a priest and worship god in exchange for…