Renaissance Art

asceticism
mendicants
Brethren of the Common Life

• Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ (1418)

body and spirit

• Romans 7:14-25
• Matthew 26:40-41

Pantocrator
Patiens (patior, to suffer)
Cult of the Virgin
allegory
naturalism

Perspective
vanishing point

• al-Hazen (965-1040), Optics
• Latin translation, 12c or 13c
• Lornezo Ghiberti, first quarter of 15c
  • Filippe Brunelleschi
  • Masaccio
  • Donatello

Patronage (patron/client relationship)

John of Genoa, Catholicon (late 13c)
Pope Gregory I "the Great" (ca. 600)

Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting (1434)

Renaissance
rebirth of ancient literature, culture

• Italy: 1350-1560
• Northern Europe: 1450-1650

--Carolingian Renaissance (9c)
--12c Renaissance

Italian communes
bureaucracy: chancellor, notary
dictatores, ars dictaminis

Francesco Petrarcha (1304-77)
Avignon
Cicero, Letters to Atticus (1c B.C.)

Seven Liberal Arts

Scholasticism

• disputation
• harmony in opposing authorities

commentaries
Peter Lombard, Sentences
Peter Abelard, Sic et non

Humanism

• humaniora - grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, moral philosophy
• studia humanitatis
• eloquence: ars dicendi et scribendi bene

ad fontes! - back to the sources

Fall of Byzantium (1453)
Printing Press (ca. 1460) - J. Gutenberg/Mainz