IT 1751 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, Piero Della Francesca, Merchant Prince

• School: York University
• Department: Italian
• Course: IT 1751
• Professor: John Picchione

Document Summary

Part a: one question you must answer. Dante will not be on the exam. Curiosity is at the base of discovery. He is an acute observer of nature. Myths are an expression of human desire and have plenty of meaning. Deals with the concept of perfection and equilibrium, just like machiavelli and pico. Man is the measure of all things. della mirandola. Created the merge between science and art. Chiaroscuro means clear and obscure, such as blending. In mona lisa , the human being is the focus and everything else is secondary. Brunelleschi was revolutionary because it was about more than building, it was engineering (building using mathematics) Thirst for knowledge is at the basis of renaissance culture. Piero della francesca the individual is placed in the foreground. All of these works display the need for science, knowledge, understanding, mathematics contributing to the dawn of modernity. Naturalistic view of the world is important.