- a super patron: Isabella d'Este
- educated, brilliant
- a gifted singer, lute player, innovative dancer
- wealthy, powerful parents
- she sponsored painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, architects
- a fashionista, she even designed her own perfume
- patron of de Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bellini, Correggio, and many more
- humanism
- deep interest in what people have already achieved as well as what they are capable of achieving in the future
- it's not a coincidence that humanism resembles the Greek idea of arete
- classical (ancient Greek and Roman) writings were important to them
- worldly (secular) values were essential - concerned with the here and now -
- Christian values still important but separate from secular values
- renaissance man/women
- someone who could master many fields of work
- women were not expected to create art, just inspire artists
- ultimate renaissance man: Leonardo de Vinci
- painter
- scientist
- inventor
- sculptors were realistic figures such as pieta
- carved from marble by Michelangelo from 1498-1499
- found in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City
- painters used perspective - using shadow and depth to create the illusion of three dimensions
- they sometimes painted frescoes
- a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid wet lime plaster
- pigment merges with the plaster, so the painting becomes an integral part of the wall
- writers wrote in the vernacular - their native language
- previously most scholarly writings were in Latin or Greek
- now literature was wore accessible to the masses
- they wrote to express their own thoughts and feelings
- Shakespeare (English)
- Dante Alighieri (Italian)
- niccolo mackiavelli (italian)
- the theme of Machiavelli the price was that the aims of princes - such as glory or survival - can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
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