Download The Renaissance and the classical heritage

The Renaissance and the
classical heritage
History 100, April 26, 2006
Reminder: no response paper this week
The sacramental system
(finishing up from last time)
• Life-cycle: birth (baptism), age of reason
(confirmation), marriage/ordination, death
(extreme unction, “last rites”)
• Annual cycle of sin, penance, and grace
(penance, Eucharist)
• Priests must perform penance, Eucharist, and
extreme unction; bishops, confirmation and
ordination
The Renaissance: a cultural
movement
• “Rebirth” of letters and arts
• Italy, beginning in 14th century (just after
Dante)
• From Italy to transalpine Europe, late 15th and
16th centuries
Key aspects
• Sense of distance from the Greek and Roman
past
• Idealization of antiquity (especially Rome)
• Use of ancient models
• Rejection of medieval “barbarism” in language
and art
Pantheon
•
Imperial
Roman
temple
•
2nd
century
AD
Reims Cathedral
•
c. 1225-1290
•
Gothic
architecture
Pantheon & Reims Cathedral
Bramante,
Tempietto
•
Inside S. Pietro in
Montorio, Rome
•
Authorized 1502
•
Completed after 1511
Pantheon & Tempietto
Palladio, Villa Rotonda (begun 1567)
Pantheon & Villa Rotonda
Myron,
Discobolus
•
Roman copy in
marble
•
5th-century BC
original
Laocoon
Group
•
Marble
•
Roman copy of
Hellenistic original
•
Rediscovered 1506
Arnolfo di Cambio,
Madonna
•
c. 1300
•
Marble
•
Designed for exterior
of Florence Cathedral
Myron & Arnolfo di Cambio
Donatello, St.
George
•
c. 1415-17
•
Marble
•
Designed for exterior
of Or San Michele,
Florence
Myron & Donatello
Michelangelo • Dying
•
Marble
•
1505-6, 1513-16
•
Designed for tomb
of Pope Julius II
Laocoon & Michelangelo
Classical models for literature
•
Latin based on ancient
models, especially Cicero
•
Ideal of the orator
(Quintilian): general
education in the
humanities:
1. Grammar
2. Rhetoric
3. Poetry
4.History
5. Ethics (moral
philosophy)