european renaissance
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Art, architecture, and poetry
Vitruvian man by Leonardo da Vinci
The Renaissance
• French for “rebirth”
• The Renaissance emerged in 14th century in Florence. Its time span covers 14th-17th centuries, and eventually the movement spread from Florence to all Europe.
• Traditionally, we refer to the Renaissance as a bridge from Middle Ages to Modern Era.
The Renaissance featured intellectual pursuits, social and political upheavals, but mainly it is known for the efflorescence of culture.
Renaissance figures turned to Classic ages, and works of Greek scholars in their pursuits. David, by Michelangelo
Spread of Renaissance
Early spread(through Italy)
Later spread
Florence
As the movement spread, it unveiled distinct characteristics in every region.
Now it is classified as the Southern (Italy, Spain, Portugal) and Northern (France, England, Germany) Renaissance.
Essential aspects of the cultural component of the movement were literature, architecture, art, music, politics, science, and religion.
Architecture Renaissance
architects took inspiration from buildings of classic antiquity. The emphasis is placed upon symmetry, proportion, and regularity of parts.
Basilica of St Peter, VaticanRebuild during Renaissance
Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, ItalyBy Filippo Brunelleschi
Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham, Englandby Robert Smythson, 1580–88;
Comparison
Art
Essential characteristic of the renaissance art, is that it develops highly realistic linear perspective.
Creation of Adam, fresco fragment in Sistine Chapel, Vatican
By Michelangelo
Comparison
Mona LisaBy Leonardo da Vinci
Henry Prince of Wales on the Hunting FieldBy Robert Peake
Paintings
ComparisonSculptures
Pietá, Basilica di san Pietro, Romeby Michelangelo
The head of St. Anne, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
by Tilman Riemenschneider
SonnetsIn England, no other form
of the Renaissance art was as accepted as literature.
Spencer and Shakespeare, inspired by sonnets of Italian author Petrarch, created a hundred years earlier, worked out their own forms of sonnet.William Shakespeare,
English author of Elizabethan era
Francesco Petrarch,Italian Renaissance author
Petrarchan SonnetSonnet 169
Rapt in the one fond thought that makes me stray
From other men and walk this world aloneSometimes I have escaped myself and
flownTo seek the very one that I should flee;
So fair and fell I see her passing byThat the soul trembles to take flight
again,So many armed sighs are in her train
This lovely foe to Love himself and me!
And yet, upon that high and clouded browI seem to see a ray of pity and shine,
Shedding some light across the grieving heart:
So I call back my soul, and when I vowAt last to tell her of my hidden pain,
I have so much to say I dare not start.
ComparisonShakespearean Sonnet
Sonnet 116Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never
shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his
height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips
and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass
come:Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of
doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Petrarchan SonnetSonnet 169
Rapt in the one fond thought that makes me stray
From other men and walk this world alone
Sometimes I have escaped myself and flown
To seek the very one that I should flee;
So fair and fell I see her passing byThat the soul trembles to take flight
again,So many armed sighs are in her train
This lovely foe to Love himself and me!
And yet, upon that high and clouded brow
I seem to see a ray of pity and shine,Shedding some light across the
grieving heart:
So I call back my soul, and when I vowAt last to tell her of my hidden pain,
I have so much to say I dare not start.
Shakespearean SonnetSonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never
shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his
height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips
and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass
come:Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of
doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Sources
• http://en.wikipedia.org/, Renaissance related articles
• www.romaviva.com• www.paintinghere.com