HIST 1250 Lecture 9: The Renaissance In Europe
15 Feb 2019
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The plague originated from china and spread through trade. Hiring musicians to compose music honouring you. Hiring philosophers writing about you/controversies to spice it up. Marked by all the translations coming in to latin. Dome; get to learn how to make it after it was lost from the middle. Better paintings, landscape, 3d, depth compared to the middle ages (where its is not about realism, the message is more about religion) Interest in movement in the context of paintings. The statues in antiquity compared to this were different. Anatomy is really important in the renaissance. The vibe is gothic cathedrals, stained glass, dark. Later they find wind circles in the atlantic and pacific. New technologies to travel, a new sailing ship developed. Portugal funding trips to the coast of africa as they are trying to expand trade. (gold, ivory trade) Europeans discover africa is an entirely new continent. Europeans introduce new crops into their diet: tomatoes, coffee.
