- Early Renaissance

 

 

 

 


Giotto, Mourning of Christ
(1305 AD)


Giotto, Madonna Enthroned
(1310 AD)


Ghiberti,  Detail from the Gates of Paradise (East Door)
The story of Joseph (1425-52)

Key Questions

 

 

 

  • Compare the emergence of European thought into the Renaissance with the emergence of Greek thought into the Periclean Era.
  • What changes in the European culture are reflected in the shift in styles from Romanesque to Gothic?
  • What is the relationship between the changing mode of production and the values and political/social structures being developed in Renaissance Italy?
  • How does Petrarch challenge the ideas of scholasticism and promote humanism?
  • Why did Chaucer write in English?
  • What are the ways in which Chaucer anticipates the Renaissance?
  • How does Chaucer’s portrait of English society at the end of the fourteenth century reveal the changes for good and ill overtaking Medieval Europe as it entered the Renaissance? 
  • How does Chaucer manipulate his persona in his satire?
  • Compare the key ideas of the Renaissance with those of the Greeks during the Periclean Era.

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Massacio, Tribute Money
1427 AD


Bosch,  The Garden of Earthly Delights (1466)


Bosch,  The Garden of Earthly Delights  (detail) (1466) 


Limbourg Brothers October,
from Les Trés Riches
Heures du Duc de Berry

1413-1416.


Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel 1440


Bosch, Christ Carrying the Cross (1490)

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Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale":

Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue

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