apeuro horner italian renessance

14-15 centuries

no strong papacy, rebirth of art and architecture

jacob burckhardt

secularism, individualism, revival of antiquity

giorgio vasari

gothic, art historian

erwin panoksky

studies in iconology and humanist themes

hans baron

civic humanism, baron thesis

joan kelly-gadol

there was no renessance for women

neoplatonism

God as The One

Elevate the soul towards God through beauty, love, and intellectual contemplation

why was the renesance in the italian peninsula

absence of a strong church, weath from trade, urban, peace, political rivalry, less feudalism, less knightly and chilary

sienna

rival of florence, downfall is caused by the plague

painting shows good government in the city and country

trade, commerce, happy

the hansa

bergen, norway, home of the hanseatic league

florence

the cradle of the renessance

the duomo

the largest dome since the pantheon

florin

trusted currency, made from gold, NO DEBASEMENT

de medici dynasty

God's Banker & Leading Patron of Music in Florence, birthplace of the Renaissance

cosimo de medici

patrician, banker, head of state

san gimignano

towers used by noble families

condottieri

mercinaties sent to eject the nobles

venice

lion (st.mark)

ducat

venice currency, second most trusted

why was political rivalry good

it influenced the countries to be better than each other without fighting

no chivalric code

no knights or nobles

3 phases of the renessance

individuals (14th), florence rome and venice (late 14 and 15), alps and beyond (16th)

attorneys and law

read contracts and read the roman archives in latin

dante

wrote the divine comedy, guides for heaven and hell (Virgil (hell) Beatrice (heaven))