Exploring the Humanities Creativity and Culture in the West; Volume 2

Name: Exploring the Humanities Creativity and Culture in the West; Volume 2
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ISBN: 9780130490872

ISBN-10: 0130490873

ISBN-13: 9780130490872

Edition: 2006

Authors: Laurie Schneider Adams, Laurence King Publishing Limited Staff

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Introduction to the Humanities,Volume Twoprovides a comprehensive, color and illustration-filled compilation of the history of civilization. The book examines humanity and its art, culture, society, architecture and religion from the reformation and reform in sixteenth-century Europe through to the present day society. The volume provide extensive social and cultural background material, reinforced with fascinating information on key persons, events, ideas and inventions of the time period to provide readers with a lsquo;you are therersquo; experience. Cross-Cultural Influence features highlight influences exchanged between different cultures to give readers a look at contact and artistic…

Book details

List price: $107.20
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
Publication date: 12/28/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.750
Language: English




The Early Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe


Key Topics Introduction Time Chart


The Expansion of Humanism


Society and Culture: The Humanist Movement


Advances in Technology


Defining Moment: The Printing Press


Arts and Sciences


Exploration


Florence in the Fifteenth Century


Society and Culture: The Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century


Humanism and the State


The Platonic Academy


Decorating the City


The Competition of 1401


Brunelleschirsquo;s Dome


Donatellorsquo;s John the Evangelist


Masaccio


Society and Culture: Linear Perspective


Alberti: A Renaissance Man


Albertirsquo;s Architecture


Medici Patronage


Donatellorsquo;s David


Fra Angelico in San Marco


Inside the Medici Palace


Botticellirsquo;s Birth of Venus


Architecture: Giuliano da Sangallo


Music in Florence under the Medici


Conservative Backlash: Antoninus and Savonarola


The Arts Outside Florence


Society and Culture: Women and their Education in Early Renaissance Italy


The State Portrait


The Equestrian Portrait


The State Bedroom at Mantua


Leonardo in Milan


The Early Renaissance in the North


Painting


Graphic Art


Music


Guillaume Dufay


Josquin Desprez


Thematic Parallels: The Classical Tradition: Revival and Opposition


Key Terms Key Questions Suggested Reading Suggested Films



The High Renaissance in Italy and Early Mannerism


Key Topics Introduction Time Chart


Political and Economic Developments


Society and Culture: Technology and the Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci