HUM2210 Western HumanitiesAncient to Renaissance

HUM2210 Western Humanities:Ancient to Renaissance- Part 3 All of the following are desired of Baldassare Castigliones luomo universale EXCEPT charity to the less fortunate. The humanists in Lorenzos court have viewed Venus in Botticellis Primavera as an allegory for the highest moral qualities. Lorenzo Ghiberti created a vivid sense of real space in his design by using foreshortening It is remarkable that a competition was held in 1401 to design the doors to the Florence Baptistery, given that scarcely over a half century earlier, the city had witnessed as much as four fifths of its population succumb to the Black Death. According to Pico della Mirandola in the Oration on the Dignity of Man, humans are the most fortunate of living things, because of their great gift of free will. Dufays Nuper rosarum flores repeats the fixed melody on 6, 4, 2, and 3 units per breve to mirror the proportions of Solomons Temple and the Florence Cathedral. How did Filippo Brunelleschi construct his dome without temporary wooden scaffolding? The domes ribs function as support, so scaffolding is part of the design. Cosimo de Medici founded Florences Platonic Academy to provide a place for the study and discussion of Platos works Piero Della Francesca painted Federigo de Montefeltro, duke of Urbino, in profile because Federigo was missing an eye and part of his nose. Leonardo da Vincis Last Supper fresco is unique for its psychological realism. In Titians Sacred and Profane Love, sacred love is represented by the nude woman. In the School of Athens, Raphael represents Plato pointing upward to signify the location of the realm of ideal forms. In Renaissance Italy, the education of women was, to some degree, necessitated by the rise of the merchant class. In the School of Athens, Aristotle directs his palm down to indicate that knowledge comes from study of the natural world. Villa La Rotunda was modeled upon the Pantheon. In The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, Lucretia Marinella claims that men who denigrate women are motivated by anger and envy. According to the ancient Roman Vitruvius, the ideal human body should be eight times the size of the human head. Donato Bramante applied the Vitruvian circle inscribed with a square to his church designs to symbolize the perfection of God Michelangelo placed the Separation of Light from Darkness at the far end of the Sistine Chapel over the altar, because it was intended to symbolize the viewers distance from creations goodness and truth Venetian artists begin favoring oil paint over tempera, because it gave their work more luminosity and realistic details. Why in his later years did Martin Luther claim that the Jews were devils and blasphemers? Jews did not willingly convert in great numbers to the reformed Christianity. At the heart of Martin Luthers outrage at the Churchs salvation for sale was class inequity and injustice. Satire aims to convey the contradiction between real and ideal situations Ulrich Zwingli launched his program of iconoclasm in Zurich to protest the excesses of the Vatican. Martin Luther rebelled against the Church mandate about celibacy for those in a religious vocation, because faith, to him, equalized everyone, including the clergy. Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More revived the Classical literary genre of satire. The first major work that Johannes Gutenberg published using his printing press was The Forty-Two Line Bible. The Roman Catholic Church condemned Franà §ois Rabelaiss Gargantua and Pantagruel for attacking medieval theologys dogmas and sacraments. Michel de Montaigne invented the personal essay. Why did many Northern European artists turn to painting portraits and landscapes? The market for religious art was diminishing. Which of the following is NOT one of William Byrds reasons for people to learn to sing? It makes people more pleasant. What in Dr. Faustus would become a standard feature of the Elizabethan stage? blending of tragic and comedy English families agreed to colonize Roanoke Island in 1587 in exchange for land. England sought to establish a colonial foothold in the Americas to counter the powerful Hispanic Catholic presence there. Which Elizabethan writer used the English sonnet form so successfully that it has been given his name? William Shakespeare In an English sonnet, the resolution or explanation is the last couplet. in Hans Holbeins The Ambassadors, the skull between the two ambassadors represents the fate that awaits us all Publication of what work directly inspired sacred music during the Elizabethan age? The First Book of Common Prayer Henry VIII wrote a tract condemning Martin Luther and his religious reforms to earn a Defender of the Faith title from the pope. For John Smith and the English people, Pocahontas symbolized the Jamestown colonys civilizing mission.