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Renaissance
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Michelangelo, David
(1501-04)
Da Vinci, Mona Lisa,
1503–1505
Michelangelo, Creation
of Adam,
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
(1508-1512)
Raphael, Cowper Madonna
1505
Raphael, The School of Athens
(1510-11)
Titian, Meeting of Bacchus and Ariadne, (1522–1523)
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Key Questions
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- What is this Renaissance MAN stuff all about?
- How do historical ideas inform our
understanding of Othello?
- How does Shakespeare question the
Renaissance pursuit of the ideal in Macbeth or Othello?
- To what extent is the Renaissance
both the high point of Latin Christendom and a virulently, religiously
subversive movement?
- What was the church's response to
the Renaissance?
- What is the role of Byzantium and
Islam in the Renaissance? What cross cultural influences took place
between the Islamic and European worlds during the Renaissance?
- What is the influence of European
discovery, exploration and expansion on the European outlook?
- Trace the beginnings of European
imperialism from Ancient Greece and Rome to Renaissance Europe to 19th
c. Europe.
- Compare and contrast the values and
political/social structures of the Northern Renaissance to the Italian
Renaissance? To what degree is this change influenced by
geographical, cultural and historical factors?
- How did the religious upheavals and
societal changes of the Renaissance and Reformation alter the
compositional styles and musical textures of the time? What
is the relationship between these societies and music in terms of style
and function?
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High
Renaissance Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual,
Religious
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Renaissance Art:
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Renaissance Literature:
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Renaissance Music:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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- Bruni
Defends the Humanities; Humanist
History; The Political Structure of
the Republic of Florence from On
the Constitution of the Florentines. (1439)
- Gutenberg
Bible (1455)
- Piccolomini., A Successful Condotierre,
from De Viris
Illustribus (1454).
- Pico de Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity of Man
(1487) (annotated
version)
- Guicardini, The
Best Offense (1494)
- Machiavelli, from The
Prince
Intro, chapters 14-19, 26 The
Prince (full
text) (1505); Machiavelli
on the Ancients
- Erasmus, from The Praise of Folly
(1509) (full text)
- Castiglione: A Manual for Gentlemen
(1528); The
Book of the Courtier, (short extracts)
(complete text Sir Thomas Hoby tr.
1561)
- More, from Utopia
(1516); The Last Letter; Confession
of Sir Thomas More
- Vasari, Lives of the Artists
(1550)
: Leon Battista Alberti:
The Renaissance Man
- Columbus, Diaries
(1492)
- de Léry,
from History of a Voyage to the
Land of Brazil (1578)
- Montaigne, "On Cannibals";
(full text)
(1580) complete essays
trans John Florio (1603)
- Bruno, The
Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
(quotes) (1586)
- Barlowe, The First Voyage Made to
Virginia (1594)
- Wright, A Chart of the World on
Mercator's Projection (1599)
- Bacon: Preface to the Novum
Organum ; Mosaic excerpt ; from Proemium; A Natural History for the Building of Philosophy (1607); Of Death
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Italian Renaissance:
Northern Renaissance:
- Dürer, Portrait of Oswolt Krel
(1498); Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (ca. 1497–98) ; Knight, Death, and the Devil,
(1513); Four Apostles
(1526); Market Peasants
(1512)
- Grünewald, Isenheim Altarpiece (1550) : A Portrait of Agony; a Message of Hope
- Cranach, Martin Luther;
Passional Christi und Antichristi.
(1521) Woodcuts;
Altarpiece
(Smarthistory)
- Holbein, The
Ambassadors (1534); Dance of Death
(1538)
- Bruegel, Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) c. 1562; Procession to Cavalry (1564); Peasant Wedding , 1568; The Adoration of the Kings
1564
- White, “The True Pictures and
Fashions of the People in That Parte
of America Now Called Virginia“ (1585)
- Inigo Jones, Architecture and Masque
Costumes; Design for The Masque of Blackness
(Johnson) (1605)
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Italian Renaissance:
French Renaissance:
English Renaissance:
Spanish Renaissance:
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- Lheritier, Nigra
Sum, c.1520
- des Prez
(1450-1521) Motet: De profundis
clamaviadte
1,
2, 3, 4
- Arcadelt, "Il bianco e dolce cigno" (1539)
- Palestrina, Pope
Marcellus Mass (1570) Gloria;
Credo;
1,
2,
3,
4,
5
- Geusualdo, Madrigals; Morro, lasso, al mio duolo; Io parto e no piu dissi (1561-1613) 1,
2,
3; Ross, A Gesualdo Photojournal; Murder and Madrigals New Yorker 2011
- Weelkes, Madrigal: O Care thou
wilt dispatch me (1575-1623) 1,
2,
3,
4
- Dowland, Madrigal accompanied by lute: Flow
my tears…(1563-1626) 1,
2,
3
- Byrd, Pavana
Lachrymosa 1,
2,
3
- Attaignant, Brante gay
and Basse danse
- Monteverdi, Orfeo
(1606) Eurydice recitative,Dance
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Orfeo Song
, Chorus
, Tu se’ morta.;
L’incoronazione
di Poppea (I, iii) (1642)
Greensleaves
- Respighi, Ancient Airs and Dances Suite #1 (1917)
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Giorgione, The Tempest (1508)
Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione
(1514-15)
Titian, Portrait of Doge Andrea Gritti
(1544-45)
Inigo Jones Costume Design
for The Masque of Blackness
(Johnson) (1605)
Breuegel, Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) c. 1562
Breughel, Peasant Wedding, 1568
Breughel, Procession to Cavalry (1564)
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High
Renaissance Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual,
Religious
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Renaissance Art:
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Renaissance Literature:
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Renaissance Music:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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Secondary Sources:
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- Humanism
(Hooker)
- Humanism
as Philosophic Organism
- Burckhardt, The
Discovery of the Modern State and Individual from The
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1878)
- Chabod, “
Was
There a Renaissance State?” (1966)
- Kelly-Gadol,
Did
Women Have a Renaissance?
- Renaissance
Astrology - 'we are merely the stars' tennis balls, struck and bandied
which way please them' (BBC)
- Berlin, “Machiavelli”
(NY Review) (notes) ; A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli
- Machiavelli
and the Italian City States - high politics and low cunning in the
Italian Renaissance (BBC Radio)
- Kessler, “Giordano
Bruno, The Forgotten Philosopher” (2007)
- Exploration
Through the Ages
- "Renaissance Exploration,
Travel, and the World Outside Europe" (Norton
Anthology 16th c. Topics)
- The Conquistadores (PBS)
- The Medici Archive Project
- Bruno and “The
Forbidden World” (2008)
- 241 Giordano Bruno and the radicalization of Copernicus
- 325 Andreas Vesalius, renaissance artists, and experimental anatomy
- 474 John Dee: mathematician, scientist, and sorcerer
- 327 Ambroise Pare turns butchery into humane surgery
- 603 Ambroise Pare studies birth defects in 1571
- 610 Paracelsus and Oporinus: The alchemist and the printer
- 1100 In which 16th century physicians turn alchemy into modern chemistry
- 1167 Machiavelli's attempt to make objective science of statecraft
- 1350 Vespucci and the naming of America
- 1950 Girolamo Cardano: The tormented life of a towering Renaissance thinker
- 2146 In which Shakespeare invents a great deal of our language
- 2168 What's really in a Name -- the name of William Shakespeare?
- 621 Alchemists bring magic to the theater and to modern science
- 1175 The collapse of the Elizabethan renaissance
- 1637 In which science and magic struggle to become separate pursuits
- 1702 Memory and meaning: How actors remember all those lines
- 2001 Of beasts, Bibles and Evolution: Intimations of Darwin in King James' court
- 2314 In which Montaigne invents the essay -- as means for assaying his own life
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Michelangelo:
Raphael
Leonardo:
Ghiberti:
Bellini:
Titian:
Miscellaneous:
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Shakespeare:
The Merchant of Venice - Greenblatt, "Shakespeare's Leap" (from Stratford to London, then Dr. Lopez and The Merchant of Venice) (2004)
- 2547 Changing views on charging interest throughout history
Hamlet: - Timeline of Hamlet's Action
- The Enfolded Hamlet
- "Let Be: An Answer to Hamlet's Question" NY Times 7-10-11
- Hawkes, "Winners, Losers-- and Revenge!" on Elizabethan Revenge Drama 5-25-11
- Voltaire on Hamlet, Letters on the English or Lettres Philosophiques – Letter 18: On Tragedy (1733)
- Schlegel, On Hamlet, from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature (1809)
- S.T. Coleridge, On Hamlet, from Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets (1818)
- Hazlitt, "On Hamlet" from Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth and Characters of Shakespear's Plays (1819)
- Dickens, "The Origin of Hamlet" from 'All The Year Round' " (1879)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, On Hamlet, from A Study of Shakespeare (1880)
- Twain, The Duke's Soliloquy from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
- Mark Twain (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884-85)
- A.C. Bradley, "On Hamlet" from Shakespearean Tragedy (1904)
- Ernest Jones. "The Oedipus Complex as an Explanation of Hamlet's Mystery: A Study in Motive" (1910)
- T.S. Eliot, "Hamlet and His Problems" from The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1920)
- Hamlet's Sources
- Ulrich Bonn's Hamlet Web
- Hamlet on the Ramparts
Macbeth:
Othello:
King Lear Clip from Brook version The
Tempest:
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