The Renaissance
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
11:38 AM
- Artist looking at new ways to paint people - not entirely biblical and featuring daily life
- Brought about different views of religion and people
- Division in church - east and west
- Protestant break of
- Martin Luther in Germany essentially makes a new sect of Christianity
- In the renaissance there is more art created then there has been since the roman times
- Medici Family had the most influence on the Italian Renaissance
- Florence 1389 man baptized - not noble
- Humble beginnings
- Dawn of 15th century
- Treasure trade
- Holy church had most of it
- Treasure was knowledge
- Lost secrets of the ancient world
- Achievement of classics were above everything that had happened in the past few hundred years
- Florence was a major trading city that didn't have a king but different family's fought for power
- Medici bank prestigious trading
- Chose clients carefully
- Helped a priest become pope and then had the pope (John 23) "remember"
- Medici planned to rebuild and overambitious unfinished cathedral
- They needed ancient architectural knowledge
- Went to Brunelleschi - a maverick architect
- Had a bad temper and "weird ideas"
- Medici not intimidated
- Was doing things that had not been seen for thousands of years
- Used old styles like roman columns and such
- With Medici's help sparked an archictual revolution
- Medici was becoming patron to up their power
- Brunelleschi went to work on the dome and got the go ahead from the authorities
- Got inspiration from pantheon
- Head Medici died and his son couzimo took over
- Their rivals the albitzis controlled the city for generations
- As medicis got more power the tensions rose and fighting heightened
- Cauzimo was thrown in jail but a bribe got him out
- He was banished and because he had paid for most of the cities economy the people got tired of the albitzis
- They brought cauzimo back and gave him control of the city
- Revenge was selective but brutal
- Money flooded back into Florence
- Work on the dome started once again
- As they grew they became more powerful they
- The patsi were another rivals of the Medici
- They hatched a plan to kill the heirs of the Medici
- They need to kill both brothers at the same time
- On Easter Sunday they attempt the assassination in the cathedral
- One of the brothers escaped wounded but alive
- Violence broke out as fighting between the two sides supporters reeked havoc on Florence
- The surviving brother, Lorenzo the Magnificent, went and made a deal with the other side
- Returned to Florence - now peaceful and under the control of the Medici
- Used his new found power to fund art
- One that he sponsored was Leonardo da Vinci
- Started the first art school in Florence
- Michelangelo went there and Lorenzo thought he was great
- Lorenzo took him home to live with him and his family
- Michelangelo had two types of art - normal religious figures and humanist
- There were other people struggling between the two
- Creativity and art were at its peak but they were struggling financially
- Medici banks couldn't keep up with what people were asking
- Lorenzo fell ill and died at age 43
- People of the church who had not liked the art that Lorenzo made (they thought it was sinful) damned him
- Things flipped upside down when Lorenzo died
- Radical Christians took over and - beat prostitutes, killed homosexuals, got rid of wigs and jewelry and makeup, got rid of literature and paintings that weren't Christian
- Everything that Lorenzo did during his life was reversed
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