FSN 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Piero Della Francesca, Leon Battista Alberti, Santa Croce, Florence
29 Jan 2017
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Art during the italian renaissance & high renaissance periods. Italy"s cultural dominance (from 14th to 16th became europe"s largest economy & leader in sciences, literature, and arts) Italy became the leading economy and the cultural destination of europe. This economic leadership was based on italy"s dominance of trade between europe and the. Italy became the place for scholars around the western world to come study natural sciences and arts. The roman cultural legacy (egalitarian and democratic social values & republican ideals) This was a period of revival of roman cultural legacy, not just arts but also politics. This legacy meant egalitarian societies were really republican ideas of societies and roman republic became a new option for social organizations. People gathering, including the upperclassmen and the lower class men. Warring city states (florence, milan, pisa, siena, venice, verona, mantua, bologna, Ferrera, genoa, rome & the papal states, the kingdom of naples)
