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Historical Background
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What happened
before the Renaissance?
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Ancient
Period
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| Trojan War |
1250 BC |
| Rise
of Greek City-States |
1000
- 800 BC |
| Ancient Greece |
c. 800 BC - 30
BC |
| First Olympic
Games |
776 BC |
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| Founding of Rome |
753 BC |
| Crucifixion of
Christ |
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| Early Christian
Period |
100 - c. 395 |
| Fall of the Roman
Empire |
476 |
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Medieval
Period
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| Iconoclasm |
726 - 843 |
| First Crusade
called by the Pope to retake the Holy Lands from the Muslims |
1095 - 1099 |
| Hundred Years'
War between France and England |
1337 - 1453 |
| Greast Schism
in the Church |
1376 - 1417 |
| Chaucer writes
the Canterbury Tales |
1387 - 1400 |
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Renaissance
Period 1400 - 1600
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Feudal society was not fun
Paul, Herman and Jean Limbourg.
Page with February, from Tres Riches Heures. 1413 - 16.
West facade of Notre-Dame Cathedral,
Paris. 1163 - c. 1250.
Janson,
H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North
Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.
The Tree of Jesse. West facade,
Chartres Cathedral. c. 1150 - 1170. Stained glass.
Duane
Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. (Upper Saddle River,
NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) 7th ed.
Madonna Enthroned. Late 13th century.
Tempera on panel.
Janson,
H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North
Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.
Chi-Rho Monogram from the Book
of Kells. Late 8th century.
Duane
Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. (Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) 7th ed.
Roettgen
Pieta. Early 14th century.
Janson,
H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North
Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.
Detail of Christ of the Pentacost.
Saint Madeleine Cathedral, France. 1125 - 1150.
Duane
Preble, Sarah Preble and Patrick Frank, Artforms. (Upper Saddle
River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002) 7th ed.
Doors
of Bishop Bernward, Hildesheim Cathedral. 1015 A.D.
Janson,
H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North
Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.
Adam
& Eve Reproached by the Lord from the Doors of Bishop Bernward.
Janson,
H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North
Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.
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Humanism
= a cultural and intellectual movement during the Renaissance, following
the rediscovery of the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
A philosophy or attitude concerned with the interests, achivements and
capabilities of human beings rather than with the abstract concepts and
problems of theology.
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Giotto di Bondone.
Frescoes in the Arena Chapel. 1305 - 1306.
Giotto
di Bondone. Marriage at Cana, Raising of Lazarus, Resurrection and Noli Me
Tangere, and Lamentation. 1305-6.
Giotto
di Bondone. Lamentation. 1305-6.
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner's
Art Through the Ages. Twelfth ed. Vol. 2. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College
Publishers, 2005. 2 vols.
Official
site of the Arena Chapel
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The Daphne
Crucifixion. 11th century.
Janson,
H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University
of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.
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Giotto
di Bondone. Lamentation. 1305-6.
Fred S. Kleiner and Christin J. Mamiya,
Gardner's Art Through the Ages. Twelfth ed. Vol. 2. Fort Worth: Harcourt
Brace College Publishers, 2005. 2 vols.
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