HUM final exam
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- Trecento
- Italian for three hundred; generally used to refer to the 1300s
- 3 Calamities of 14th Century
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Great Schism
Bubonic Plauge
100 Years War - Great Schism
- division in the church with two rival popes
- International Gothic Style
- heavy walls, little light
- Giotto
- realism, sense of depth, three dimensional looking (kind of Indian style)
- Simone Martini
- highly influential on Gothic style
- Pisanos
- famous sculptors, emotion in faces, father and son, highly realistic
- Perpendicular style
- final form of architecture, emphasis on vertical
- Limbourg Bros.
- first guys to make calenders, secular
- Ars Nova
- new, more complex music form, richer harmonies, elaborate rhythmic devices
- Mass: 5 parts (KGCSA)
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Kyrie
Gloria:
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus dei - Guillaume de Machaut
- poet and composer, French, ars-nova movement, musical reform, secular topics mixed with sacred music, incorporated into church, influenced Chaucer, creator of Motet
- Landini
- composer, works are secular, part of trecento movement (flourishing arts and music)
- Duomo
- Italian word for "cathedral"
- Linear perspective
- all lines go to one ponit in the painting
- Aerial perspective
- use of colors to make things look three dimensional, changes in atmosphere, Mona Lisa
- Foreshortening
- angled towards viewer to look smaller
- Chaucer
- popularizes English language
- Narrative Frame
- story inside a story
- Death
- personified as real person that we can get rid of somehow, portrayed as something we find, but not necessarily looking for--you stumble upon it
- Dante and Chaucer
- both popularized their language, don't like church--respectful of Christianity but not the people
- Radix malorum est cupiditas
- role of pardoner's tale--greed is the root of all evil
- Exemplum
- moral tale/story
- Petrach
- comparable to Dante, fixation on women (Laura), sees her in church once, becomes obsessed, love poetry (books), vernacular Italian INSTEAD of Latin sonnets,scattered rhyme scheme, rhyma sparse, FATHER OF HUMANISM, disillusioned with religion
- Poet Laureate
- first one
- Courtly Love
- sing songs of chivalry, holy love
- Mount Ventoux
- climbs it, reads Confessions by St. Augustine (changes his life, you try to take easy way but gets you farther down)
- Ars Vendi
- learning how to live your life
- rime sparse
- moves away from God, book begins Petrarchan sonnet
- Canzoniere
- song book
- Florence
- where early renaissance began
- Sfumato
- Color blending technique (subtle so they move nicely) like Mona Lisa
- Chiraoscuro
- extreme contrasts between dark and light
- Pico
- Oration on Dignity of Man, philosopher, man can be like God--divinity rather than evilness of man, philosopher
- Aldine Press
- famous press, responsible for mass production of classics, italics
- Palestrina
- composer, counter-reformation, Catholic church handed over job of redoing mass music, took all secular stuff out of it
- Motet
- sacred madrigal
- Savonarola
- precursor of Martin LUther, responsible for getting Luther going, anti-Catholic reformer, preaches against many artists in Florence
- Frottola
- humous musical piece
- fresco
- painting done on fresh coat of plaster
- Venetian art
- oil painting, love of landscapes, surreal
- A Capella
- sacred music popularized, back to simplicity
- High Renaissance?
- artistic style changes, secular and spiritual blending, religion and history don't have to be separated, moves towards impressionistic style, more manneristic, reflected what was going on during reformation
- Venetian music
- split choir, choir with music, instrumental music, use of organ
- Fortuna
- you can't rely on fortune!