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The RenaissanceDarkness and Light
Renaissance Essentials After St.Thomas Aquinas, there were
cracks in the unifying culture of Christianity Rebirth of humanism: everything revolved
around man again, as in Greece and Rome We have to be educated to be human
beings Compass, firearms, printing press
Transition from a minimum-level economy to a middle class based on banking/trade
Individual can achieve wealth through diligence, innovation, and education
Man is now infinitely great and valuable Pico della Mirandola Oration on the Dignity
of Man
Baldassare Castiglione Renaissance social
ideal: poet, scholar The Courtier: nobleness of birth, wit
comely shape of person and countenance, grace, capable in arms, ingenuity and loyalty, pleasant, discreet
Plotinus – 3rd Century Egyptian-born neoplatonist
Plotinus’s Belief: a mystical union between the individual soul and “the One.”
Union achieved by soul’s ascent through levels of spiritual purification
Christians’ Modification: substituted “God” for the “One.”
Christians: Soul is eternal
Marsilio Ficino, Humanist Philosopher Translated Plato’s writings into Latin (after fall of
Constantinople to Ottoman Turks 1453) Platonic Academy in Florence (Cosimo financed,
Ficino led) “Platonic” (or spiritual) love attracts the soul to
God Renaissance painters: spiritual love inspired by
physical beauty led to beautiful paintings
Ficino: “She was the very embodiment of “Humanitas…her Soul and mind are Love and Charity, her eyes Dignity and Magnanimity, the hands Liberality and Magnificance, the feet Comeliness and Modesty. The whole, then, is Temperance and Honesty, Charm and Splendor”
Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538-1539 Oil on Canvas. 3 ft. 11 in. x 5 ft. 5 in
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