Renaissance HumanismHistory 104 / January 11, 2013

Italy during the Renaissance:a land of local

loyalties

The doors of theFlorence Baptistery(commission awarded toLorenzo Ghiberti, 1401)

Albrecht Dürer,Self-Portrait

(1500)

Baldassare Castiglioni

author ofThe Book of the

Courtier(ca. 1508-1516)

The “Donation of Constantine” in medieval lore

Lorenzo Valla(1407-1457)

Matthias Grünewald

Isenheim Altar

(1513-15)

Veit Stoss, Altar of St. Mary’s, Cracow

Rogier van der Weyden, St. Luke Drawing the Virgin (15th Cent.)

John Wycliffe(1330-1384)

and the Lollards

Jan Hus (1369-1415) burned at the Council of Constance

Julius IIPope, 1503-1513

St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome (built 1506-1626)

Dome of St. Peter’s (designed by Michelangelo)

Gutenberg Bible: Genesis

Gutenberg Bible: Romans

Erasmus (woodcut by Albrecht Dürer, 1526)

Erasmus of Rotterdam

(painted by Hans Holbein the Younger)

Erasmus, Praise of Folly (first edition, 1511)

Erasmus,Praise of Folly

(1549 English transl.)

Hans Holbein the Younger,

Sir Thomas More (1527)

Thomas More, Utopia (1518 Basel ed.)