Renaissance era and love who can tell me what was the general idea of love during the renaissance?
During Shakespeare's time, Elizabethan and early Jacobean, people did not marry for love. Royal marriages were arranged for reasons of state politics, nobles arranged marriages to enhance land holdings or for royal favor. The growing classes of skilled trades and professions arranged marriages within guilds to preserve wealth and commercial advantage (journeyman marrying the master craftsman's daughter, etc). One was expected to grow to love whom one married rather than the other way around as is common today, at least in the "western" world. Extramarital love relationships were extremely common; royal and noble illegitimate children given their special titles and names. The prefix "Fitz-" meaning illegitimate but recognized (Fitzroy, Fitzduke, etc). Many of the scenarios in Shakespeare's drama are commentaries on this social condition; especially those involving the character Sir John Falstaff, the amorous buffoon. Happy Holidays - .--
Renaissance view of courtly love?
I have to do a 4-7 page report on the Renaissance view of courtly love. I have no idea where to even begin. My task is to do a reasearch paper on it. and thats all I was given to do...I need 3 different sources 1 book 1 internet and 1 anything else (newpaper, magizine). Like I said, I no NOTHING. Book help would be best
Realism in the Renaissance?
The Renaissance was characterized by humanist thought. This can be broken into three main concepts: 1) Humanity is the pinnacle of creation, and the human body is the most beautiful form in all existence 2) Humanity does not need divine help to understand the universe. Human logic and reasoning can explain all mysteries. 3) Philosophy should not focus on abstract concepts like good and evil, but human issues such as finance and politics. Based on these three principles, it's easy to see why the Renaissance artists liked Realism. This era (from the 1600's onward) eventually led revolutions such as the Enlightenment and the Scientific Method. It was the point at which people began turning from religion and toward science. Before the Renaissance, art focused on highly imaginative subjects (Romanticism), and featured images like satyrs, Greek Gods, devils, etc. The Renaissance era artists reacted against their forebears, and focused on qualities that could be seen and touched. Hence, even the works of religious painters like Caravaggio were realist. If God existed, God must be identifiable in a very real and physical sense. That's why the Saints and apostles were no longer portrayed in fanciful ways with halos and battling demons, but as regular people. Another example is the roof of the Sistine Chapel, where Michaelangelo "humanized" the form of God; he painted God as a man. Due to humanist thought, even abstract concepts (the occult and divine) came to be depicted in ways that appeared "real".
Why does the Renaissance era art have nudity in it?
I don’t have time to give a really in depth answer so here’s the short version of it.Way way back in time the Ancient Greeks started make sculptures of humans. These were modelled or inspired on the Egyptian statues we all know an love. What the Greeks did different is that rather than having them stand rigid with arms along their side they made them adopt natural and dynamic poses. They also made them nude, this was something surrounding cultures didn’t do and as such it can be attributed to Greek culture.In Rome this tradition continued although toward the end of the Roman Empire and into the Early Middle Ages Statues once again started to be clothed and slightly more rigid.see: Heroic nudity - WikipediaMedieval sculptors already moved to more dynamic poses during the High Middle Ages but nudity had to wait until renaissance artists just revived this practice. In essence they went full circle in the intervening years.Regal egyptiansArchaic Greek statue, note the nudity combined with rigidity of the poseClassical Greek nude sculpture in Contrapposto
What can you tell me about the English Renaissance?
I have to do an oral on the English Renaissance and I need some help. I've been researching for hours! I need to answer 4 main questions: 1. HISTORICAL CONTEXT (MAJOR EVENTS/CHANGES) 2. How does 1 + 2 affect a) Style b) Intention c) Language 3. Example of work that represents this period 4. What does this literacy period represent, and characteristics I also should, or can, make mention to William Shakespeare. I don't want a bibliography of him, i just need to know how he fitted into this period and a little about his work. To give you an idea of what i already know, is that the Renaissance was the "rebirth" of music, art and literature. It was also when Humanism began, which is the emphasis on the individual instead of a superior being. It had just come out the 'Middle Ages' which focused heavily on God and the church. Also, for the "work" to represent this period, what do you think of the Mona Lisa? As it was painted during the Renaissance and represents Humanism because she was an individual, and it wasn't an angel or saint like all the art painted during the Middle Ages, so what do you think? Please help me on the other questions too? I would love you forever <3
How do you write a Harlem renaissance poem?
Well your poem certainly wouldn't be considered part of the Harlem Renaissance, but if you want to imitate the style or consider some of the themes that HR poets were looking at, I'd suggest you read some Langston Hughes poems. There was a strong tension between "high" and "low" forms of art and one thing you might try to do is incorporate jazz rhythms in the metre of your poetry. You might try listening to some Count Basie or Duke Ellington records and try to write your poem in a way that feels the sort of off-beat rhythms.
Why was Raphael Sanzio important to the Renaissance?
The importance of the Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio is that his paintings went beyond the previous work of his contemporary, Michelangelo, by combining subtleties, a greater clarity of form and softer shading to create a more realistic rendering of his figures. He also infused his own sense of grace into his figures and avoided the air of tension often found in Michelangelo's depictions. Raphael's work is known and admired for his ability to visually capture the Neoplatonic and Renaissance ideal of human grandeur.The work of Raphael, along with that of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, represents an expression of the philosophical outlook of the period of time between the late 15th and early 16th centuries known as the High Renaissance. Raphael's best-known work is arguably the wall fresco "School of Athens." In this work, the artist depicts the seven liberal arts: dialectic, rhetoric, music, arithmetic, geometry, astrology and grammar. This large and complex composition is regarded as one of the greatest works created in the grand manner of the High Renaissance.Although his influence was overshadowed by his contemporary Michelangelo during his time, it was generally held by the mid-16th century that Raphael was the ideal balanced painter whose work satisfied all standards and obeyed all of the rules accepted as governing the creation of art. Raphael's greatest influence on other artists came during the late 1600s to the late 1800s during which time his perfect sense of balance and decorum were highly admired
Why were there so many nude paintings during the Renaissance era?
This is the short answer. There were not so many nudes in Renaissance art at first. Renaissance artists desired to recapture the beauty of the classical art of ancient Rome. Among the ancient works of art that were being uncovered in the 14th-century were marble statues of nude Venuses. At first, the people fell in love with these images and artists wanted to recreate such beauty. But they were afraid that these image were lustful and un-Christian. Or what is worse, they feared that their love of these statuses indicated that they were becoming idolaters.In the 15th-century, the Renaissance philosopher Ficino came to the rescue with his translation of and commentary on Plato’s Symposium. This was a best-seller among the noble and wealthy class, who were the patrons of art. In this book, he explained that there were two Venuses: the worldly, clothed Venus, who represented sexuality, and the pure unadorned celestial Venus who represented the highest aspirations of spirituality.Shortly after that, Botticelli was commissioned to paint two paintings, The Primavera, in which the clothed Venus presides over the fertility of the earth. And the Birth of Venus, in which the celestial Venus, is presented as a beautiful nude. Artists and patrons were convinced that the nude was now sanctified and the nude became a accepted subject for artists to paint. Artists felt that the nude captureed the pure beauty of the classical world. This was the highest ideal of the Renaissance and the reason that this period was called the Renaissance (the rebirth).Tarot & Divination Decks with Robert M Place