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Renaissance
The Renaissance was a period in which Europe underwent a rebirth in regards to classical art, literature, and architecture. The movement originated in Italy during the 14th century before spreading throughout Europe.
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Fountains were seen as representing the four great rivers of the world recognized Renaissance geographers. Each location is further enhanced by flowers and animals of their location. Each River God is semi prostrate in awe of the Papal power of the day.
What famous King and Queen live in the Palais de Versailles?
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette King and Queen of France and Navarre lived in the Palace of Versailles/ Palais de Versailles between 1770 when they married and 1793 when they were both executed by the revolutioneries of the French Revolution 1789.
How about king Louis XIV who built Versailles?
Who was more of a renaissance man Leonardo da vinci or Michelangelo?
katherinemarie : depends what aspect you're looking at... painting : Michelangelo inventions: Leonardo da Vinci anatomy: Michelangelo (he dissected dead bodys to learn more about the body) etc...
How did renaissance music sound like?
Classical music has a lighter, clearer texturethan Baroque music and is less complex. It is mainly homophonic, using a clear melody line over a subordinate chordal accompaniment,(but counterpoint was by no means forgotten, especially later in the period). Edit by Karen Dunn
How did renaissance scholarship differ differ from that of pervious eras?
It was more invested in personal acheivement
Some Italian cities developed into major commercial and cultural centers during the 13th and 14th centuries because they managed to to get rid of the feudal tie and obligations , towards emperors, dukes, princes, bishops etc. by redeeming themselves in exchange of ready cash, limiting to pay them a merely formal homage as a sign of subjection.
Thus, allowed them, thanks of their geographical position an/or their economic power to enlarge their territories and influence in Italy and throughout the Mediterranean, paving the way to the Renaissance's advent, that would have started in the 15th century.
Personally, I would have preferred to have lived during the Middle Ages.
One reason is that people in the Renaissance looked down on those of the Middle Ages as barbarians, but the people of the Renaissance were more superstitious and less rational. They pursued witch hunts and suppressed science in ways that were not done in the Middle Ages. Unfortunately, we tend to buy the propaganda of the Renaissance, partly because they were the only ones who could make the comparison - the people of the Middle Ages did not know what was coming.
There was a lot of activity in the Middle Ages in engineering, science, philosophy, education, and mathematics that we little of today. The people of the Renaissance tried to work in these fields, but took a less practical and more cosmological point of view, resulting in ecclesiastical suppression.
The food and medicine in the High Middle Ages and Late Middle Ages were no worse that that of the Renaissance.
The people of the Middle Ages believed that cleanliness was next to godliness, so they were clean. They also believed that bad air, with bad smells, could carry diseases. The people of the Renaissance covered their bad smells with perfume and called the Middle Ages stinky.
The people of the Middle Ages believed in their religion and believed a person was no better than his word. The Renaissance produced Macchiavelli and people who thought he was just dandy.
One thing the Renaissance had was a greater proportion of houses that had fireplaces and chimneys.
What impacts did the Medici family have during the Italian Renaissance?
providing patronage for renaissance artists
Which city or state eventually controlled all of the western Europe?
No one city or state has ever controlled all of Western Europe.
The Roman Empire, which divided into the West Roman Empire and the East Roman Empire, came closest in antiquity, but it never controlled Central Europe or Northern Europe.
The Carolingian Empire came closest in the Middle Ages, but it never controlled much of Spain or Southern Italy and never controlled any of Britain or Scandinavia.
The only other state that came close was Nazi Germany, which never controlled Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, or Britain.
Differences between medieval and renaissance art?
Medieval art was mostly focused on portraying Religion; they focused on bringing out the concepts/morals of Christianity, not at all focused on creating realistic figures.
The Renaissance means the rebirth, in this case the "rebirth of Classical Greek/Roman art" which focused intently on realism. Religion was not a major factor, whereas the artists' intent was not to show/bring out morals values of a particular religion. Art techniques were also revived, especially the Classical type of artwork/sculpture of a particular figure or painting, which seemed lost during the art of the Medieval.
What are the 3 universities established in the middle ages?
There were over sixty universities established in the Middle Ages. Lists of western universities usually show the first as the University of Bologna, which was founded in 1088. The Universities of Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge are other important medieval universities. But they are not as old as the University of Constantinople, which was founded in 425 AD and is usually left off the lists of early universities.
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Which of these movements most directly influenced Northern Renaissance art?
The Protestant Reformation
How does renaissance art represent the new ideas of the age?
The renaissance represents the new ideas of the age, in that it was the movement back to the ideas of the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, renaissance was more realistic compared to one in the Middle Ages
Was there roman ideas in the renaissance?
Renaissance means rebirth and it refers to the rebirth of interest in the classics (the Greeks and the Romans. Most of the works by the Greeks was lost in western Europe, whereas the Romans were just ignored. In the Italian Renaissance there was a great interest in the Romans and it was thought that there was a lot to learn from them. Many scholars travelled around Europe to find Roman manuscripts which had been transcribed by monks some 400 hundred years earlier. There was a great interest in them. Architecture and sculpture were modelled on that of the Romans. Roman myths were commonly used in painting. Roman rhetoric was taught at school. It could be said that the Italians in the Renaissance were obsessed with the Romans. When Constantinople was conquered by the Turks, many Greek scholars fled to Italy, bringing with them ancient Greek books and knowledge of the ancient Greeks. This spurred interest in the Greeks.
How did the Reformation affect art of the Italian Renaissance?
Religion was then a more important factor in people's lives than today (in general). This means that it was very important for wealthy people to commisson artworks on religious subjects. Churches and convents also commisioned artworks. One should know that in those days artists never made art without being commissioned.
Petrarch encouraged people to seek out and study the philosophy and literature of the past. He also encouraged people to speak and write thoughtfully.
He was one of the first people to spread the word of humanism. Once he did it spread fast and almost everyone had heard his ideas on philosophy. He gave the world a new perspective on things which is what the renaissance was all about
What was the difference between Renaissance music and medieval music?
Renaissance music refers to the period from around 1400-1600, although there is some discrepancy in defining the begining of this period. Counterpoint became much more elaborate and it was over the duration of this period that composers began to leave the old modal music system in favour of tonality. Notable composers of this period are Orlando Gibbons, John Bull, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd.
AnswerAt the beginning of the Middle Ages, music seems to have been sung and played pretty much in unison. Organum developed, in which people sang at fixed intervals, for example a melody might be sung with the same melody sung pitched higher by a third or fifth. This developed by changing the second voice to sing a different melody with the first, and this is called counterpoint. Counterpoint allowed such music as rounds and other types of canons. Instruments were strictly of a single pitch, and tuning was done rationally, meaning that notes related to each other according to rational development of the overtone series, with related notes. In this system, for example, the organ pipe for a G was exactly two thirds (a ratio) of the length of pipe of the next lower pitched C. Unfortunately, rational tuning created combinations of notes that sounded out of tune with each other, called wolf tones, and this meant, for example, that certain triads could not be played. Nevertheless, by the time of the Renaissance, medieval counterpoint had developed to the point that composers could explore the possibilities.In the Renaissance, counterpoint was developed further, to create such things as fugues. A new tuning system called well tempering was also developed. According to this system the tuning was not rational, but based on irrational division of the scale. Ultimately it meant that the length of a pipe producing a tone was related to the length of the pipe a semitone up as the twelfth root of 2 is to 1. While this sounds boring, it meant that for the first time in history, musicians could transpose from any key to any other key. It also eliminated the wolf tones, so any triad could be played. This meant that by the end of the Renaissance, modern harmony was possible for the first time, a fact later celebrated by J. S. Bach with the Well Tempered Clavier.
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