HIST 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Chantry, Western Schism, Pope Eugene Iv
4 Feb 2015
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Renaissance (def): the rebirth of civilization along classical (ancient greek/roman) lines. People of the middle ages were conditioned to put spirituality and the afterlife first. By the end of the 15th (turn of 16th) artists were only beginning to start painting things other than biblical scenes: self portraits were considered to be highly narcissistic before this point. Kings start to paint themselves into biblical scenes to balance out the self portrait vs. biblical paintings (family of manuel i of portugal, 1518) Wrote about his reaction to the black death in 1348. He was in spain when he did this. After the black death we can see that artists start to write/paint/create statues of loved. Lost his good friend, one son, and a grandson to the black death ones who have died, gruesome art starts to appear recognizing these losses. Pope eugenius iv (1431-1447) (anti) pope felix (1439-1449)
