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12 Cards in this Set
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Music
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Still predominantly high renaissance: Polyphonic masses.
Words precedent over sounds. Also in secular music. Madigral: song for 4-5 voices to sing poetry Vividly potraying the emotions in the words rather than the structure of the music. Became succesful in England Thomas Weelkes - works made use of Word paintings. |
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Tintoretto
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Italian Late Mannerism
Most famous late mannerist. Feverish emotional style. Reacted to his predecessor Titian. |
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Don Quixote
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Michel de Cervantes Saavedra
Satirized chivalric novel, anachronistic ideals. Prototype of modern novel of psychological realism. Probing into the motives of the main characters. Dualistic nature: Down to earth peasant. Idealistic noble. And personify a universal theme: that idealism and realism must go together. |
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Literature
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Chivalric Novel now challanged by picareque novel.
(Comic misadventures of rogish hero who lived by his wits often at the expense of higher ups in society.) - Lazarillio de Tormes. Found new interest across Europe and influenced writers of novels for 200 years. |
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Spanish Literature
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16th century: Golden Century
- direct observation of life - satirical treatment of earlier epics and ballads - religious zeal - spanish themes, values and subject matters. - also minor influence from Renaissance humanism. |
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Spanish Painting
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El Greco 1541-1614
Sofonishba Anguissola |
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El Greco 1541-1614
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expressed counter reformation best.
- colourful - unsuccesful in Venice and Rome. Learned from Michelangelo, Mannerism. - found success among Toledo Nobles. - believed his paintings caught essence of Spanish emotionalism and religious Zeal. Gave visiual form to their spiritual yearnings. - Burial of Count Orgaz - Cardinal Guevara |
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Sofonishba Anguissola
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Helped introduce italian painting into Spain (as well as El Greco)
- mainly portraits. - mastery of mannerist style. - aristocrat background, renaissance learning (rare for woman) - ablest of women artists who began to appear in the 16th century. |
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Francois Rabelais.
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Wrote satire of the church and affirmed the goodness of human nature. Notable french humanist of the age. But he was outside the mainstream for his secularism, comedy and obsceneness and skepticism.
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Marguerite of Angouleme.
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Queen of Navarre sister Francis I
Important protector Rabelais and free thinkers/humanists. Associated with the Heptameron. A series of sexual tales. French nobles welcomed the outspokenness of the sexual matters. Social matrix was Northern Humanist and hostile to dying ethos of medieval monasticism. |
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Erasmus 1466-1534
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One of the (if not the) most outstanding figures of all humanists
Advocated humanist education classics and 'philosophy of christ' Thought the church could/should reform itself. - In praise of Folly 1509 Denounced on both sides for being a mild reformer. Luther had hoped for Erasmus support in his reforms but break up occured when Erasmus said the human will was free. |
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Michel de Montaigne 1533-1592
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- Essays. collection of writings sort of autobiography of his mind. > key individualistic spirit of renaissance. Man both intellectualy stimulated but also fascinated by his own thought processes and personality.
Also first moralist work. Moral skepticism. Little importance to Christian ethics. Rejected view of humanity as microcosm of the universe. He saw nothing except vanity and insignificance in humans and their thinking. Though practical understanding was possible. |
