VART 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Merchant City, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Gothic Architecture
27 Sep 2018
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The cultural rebirth that occurred in europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature, art and architecture, etc. of greece and rome. After the plague, the people who survived lived better lives because their labor was more useful and needed and people started to feel as though they had purpose because they made out of such a terrible time. Gunpowder changed the way people fought. A citizen who can speak and write with clarity and eloquence, who is therefore able to fully engage in civic life. Can be understood as a response to the narrow way of thinking in medieval times. Goal is to be an educated and articulate. Leonardo da vinci (1452-1519: most diversely talented person in the westward world, prototype of the renaissance man. 9 in cities - princes capital and merchant city.
