Renissance:
1. Bruni
2. Da vinci
3. Scholars of Athens
4. Raphael
5. Florence
6. Flying Buttress
Renissance Paragraphs:
2. Da Vinci’s Vetruvian man is significant for many reasons. It shows an accurate portrayal of man in the nude. This was important at the time because for a thousand years prior realism like this was unknown. This realism merges with the addition of geometry and science into art, as displayed by the circle and square.
5. The Pazzi chapel is a key building in understanding the transition between gothic and renaissance architecture. Built in Florence it embodies the ideas of humanism as it small size puts man in the spotlight once again. The interior also carries these ideas, by displaying works of art with man as the spotlight.
6. Flying buttresses are the most significant architectural advancement in the middle ages. They allowed the building of higher and wider cathedrals because their equal weight distribution. These larger buildings made it possible for the church to impose power upon the people as there scale makes us feel insignificant. Flying buttresses are also important because they make school children laugh when their teacher says butt.
Middile ages
1. Where they traced people
2. Where the light shined through onto the people
3. Where the speaker would stand
4. Where they keep the dead bodies
5. One of the two pilars closer to the building
6. French King
7. The bubonic plague was a plague that wiped out 1/3 to ½ of Europe’s population
Philosophy.
1. Descartes
2. Plato
3. Locke
4. Kant
5. Utilitarianism
6. Freud
Philosophy questions
2. Dualism is the philosophic idea that the mind and body are separate parts. Often attributed to Plato, who proposed that the mind (or soul in this case) continues on after life. This idea was later gathered by the church that then imposed the concepts of heaven and hell.
4. Empiricism and Rationalism are polar opposite’s philosophic ideas in epistemology. Empiricism is the belief that learning through experience is the only or significantly better way of acquiring knowledge. Rationalism contrasts this with the belief that learning through reason is the only or significantly better way to acquire knowledge.
5. The concept of the blank slate was proposed by John Locke. He said that human beings are born as blank slates, without any predetermined attributes, which we would commonly describe as “human nature”. Instead he believed that all of our experiences in our lives shaped who we are and what we become.
Essay topic: 1.
The Sistine chapel is the perfect representation of the renaissance. The building was constructed between 1473 and 1481 by Giovanni dei Dolci. It is fairly large, which was an attempt by the church to fight the humanist movement. However its interior embodies humanism, and its paintings and there history is a pure manifestation of the renaissance.
In 1505 Pope Julius II told Michelangelo, a fairly well established sculptor, to paint the ceilings of the Sistine chapel. Being a painter Michelangelo was reluctant to take on the project, however continual pressure (and significant money) from the church made him cave and agree to the project three years later. It took another three years until the project was finished, primarily due to Michelangelo’s perfectionist nature. When it was completed, the final result was a masterpiece.
The ceiling shows us the stories from the book of Genesis about the creation of Man and all they knew. Michelangelo portrayed these events in a new humanist light showing us how he imagined god creating man in his own image and in the nude. Shown by the most famous piece in the chapel, the event of God giving life to Adam it put Man directly next to god. For the first time since the Romans humans where significant again. Michelangelo painted god with a face that wasn’t cruel or wrathful but carries the look of a twisted compassion, like a father on his daughter’s wedding night. These paintings showed the illiterate masses not to fear god but relish in his glorious light.
Michelangelo spent rest of his life doing what he loved, sculpting. It wasn’t until 1535 when the Pope approached him once again with a proposition to paint the back wall. Michelangelo was sixty years old at the time and in the decline of his life. It wasn’t just Michelangelo’s life that was in decline though. The second coming of Christ and the eternal judgment of god upon humanity is the polar opposite of ideals which were portrayed by the ceiling. Humanism was dead, and Michelangelo followed suit 28 years later.
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