The Renaissance Jonathan Davies (Powerpoint will be on the website)
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The Renaissance
Jonathan Davies
(Powerpoint will be on the website)
Questions
• What was the Renaissance?• What was humanism?• How did the Renaissance develop and spread?• What were the legacies of the Renaissance?
Cicero
Petrarch
Cimabue,Madonna di S. Trinità
Giotto,Madonna di Ognissanti
Once they have seen how art... had fallen into complete ruin from such a noble height ... they will now be able to recognise more easily the progress of art’s rebirth (rinascita) and the state of perfection to which it has again ascended in our own times...
Giorgio Vasari, Preface, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550)
‘[The Renaissance is] the most intractable problem child of historiography.’
Wallace K. Ferguson, The Renaissance (New York, 1940), p. 2.
Jules Michelet Jacob Burckhardt
Ernst Gombrich Georg Hegel
…the Renaissance was not so much an “Age” as it was a movement. A “movement” is something that is proclaimed. It attracts fanatics, on the one hand, who can’t tolerate anything that doesn’t belong to it and hangers-on who come and go; there is a spectrum of intensity in any movement just as there are usually various factions or “wings.” There are also opponents and plenty of neutral outsiders who have other worries. I think we can most effortlessly describe the Renaissance as a movement of this kind.
E. H. Gombrich, ‘The Renaissance - Period or Movement?’, in A.G. Dickens et al., Background to the English Renaissance. Introductory Lectures (London, 1974), pp.9-30
Rather than a period with definitive beginnings and endings and consistent content in between, the Renaissance can be (and occasionally has been) seen as a movement of practices and ideas to which specific groups and identifiable persons variously responded in different times and places. It would be in this sense a network of diverse, sometimes converging, sometimes conflicting cultures, not a single, time-bound culture.
Randolph Starn, ‘Renaissance Redux’, The American Historical Review 103 (1998), 122-124
The studia humanitatis
• Grammar• Rhetoric• Poetry• History• Moral philosophy
Leonardo Bruni
Angelo Polizianoand Marsilio Ficino
Filippo Brunelleschi,
The Dome of Florence Cathedral
Luciano Laurana
The Ideal City
Donatello
David
Paolo Uccello
The Flood and Waters Subsiding
Pinturicchio
Enea Silvio Piccolomini and
Emperor Frederick III
Matthias Corvinus
Rosso Fiorentino, Gallery of Francis I, Fontainebleau
Benvenuto Cellini, Nymph of Fontainebleau
Hans Holbein
Erasmus
Albrecht Dürer
Self-portrait
Antonello da Messina
Crucifixion
Hugo van der Goes
Portinari Triptych
Giambologna
Rape of the Sabines
‘Of the many tributaries which contributed to the flow of the Reformation, by far the most important was Renaissance humanism.’
Alister E. McGrath, Reformation Thought: An Introduction, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1993), p. 40
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
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